The Linux Compendium
Encrypting everything online including your emails has become necessary. Your confidential information such as login credentials, social security numbers, and bank account details becomes vulnerable when you sent them through emails. Email encryption involves masking the content to the email message to prevent them from being read by unauthorized persons. Sending encrypted emails in Linux … Read more
The image resolution capability of today’s photo capturing devices like smartphones and digital cameras is increasing day by day. The real deal comes when we have to share these images, upload them on a cloud facility, or even save them on a device with restricted storage. Graphic designers also have to deal with the same … Read more
Installing the Conky system monitor on your Ubuntu is pretty simple. The real deal is to make the application more useful by customizing it according to your needs. This can be done through the graphical front-end for managing Conky config files. It provides options to start/stop, browse and edit Conky themes installed on the system. … Read more
DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol), as you all know is a network protocol that automatically assigns IP addresses to clients machines in the network. It eliminates the tedious work of manually assigning IP address to every machine in a large network. In addition, it removes the conflict that occurs because of mistakenly assigning the same … Read more
The Budgie Desktop is one of the latest and modern Gnome-based desktop that gives a minimal and elegant desktop experience and is available for all major Linux distributions. It is designed in such a way that it utilizes fewer system resources. Budgie desktop has a straight forward app launcher that is known as Budgie menu … Read more
A Terminal-savvy person will find a way to perform any action while staying in the comfort zone of the command line. We mostly control system volumes through the Ubuntu GUI but there are certain situations where you want to do it from the command line. ALSA or the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture provides audio support … Read more
When you want to search and play YouTube videos, every time you will need to open a web browser, open YouTube website then search for videos. What if you have the option to search and play YouTube videos without the hassle of using a web browser? Gnome Shell includes a YouTube Search Provider extension that … Read more
In the quest of finding a desktop client for Instagram for Ubuntu, I tried installing many applications on my system. Most do not work, and a few would only let me watch my Instagram account and not let me upload photos. Ramme, an unofficial desktop client for Instagram, available on Github, finally offered all the … Read more
Before looking into the Connectivity Checking feature of Ubuntu, let us first learn about Captive Portals. While trying to access Wifi facility at coffee shops, airports, business centers, hotel lobbies, etc, we find ourselves landing on a webpage that asks for authentication, payment, and/or acceptance of terms of the agreement. Only when we provide the … Read more
We often need to exchange a large amount of data including documents, mp3 files, videos, pictures among Linux and Android devices. Although using wireless technology, you can transfer data between them but transferring via USB cable is a reliable and fast way. For Linux users, we have a tool available known as Android File Transfer … Read more