The Linux Compendium
Matomo formerly known as Piwik is a free web analytics application that can be used to tracks online visits to one or more websites and displays reports on these visits for analysis. Matomo comes with lots of features including, Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Tracking and Reporting API, Cost Per Click (CPC) and … Read more
What is Apache Web Server? Apache or Apache HTTP server is a free and open source web server, developed and maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. Its popularity can be judged by the fact that around 46% of the websites worldwide are powered by Apache. Apache allows website developers to serve their content over the … Read more
File compression is a way to create archives that help us in saving time, creating space and downloading and transferring software and data faster. You can use a compressed file to distribute related files on the Internet, all compressed into a single file, without any loss of data. If you need space on your system … Read more
With Spotify, you can play your favorite songs and albums free on Linux. In this article, we will describe two ways to install/uninstall Spotify on your Ubuntu. You can make a choice based on the source you want to install it from and also if you want to use the UI or the command line. … Read more
When we connect to the Internet using a wireless/WiFi connection, we do so by entering the password and mostly checking the “connect automatically” option for future use. However, we rarely note down the password manually somewhere for future reference. The problem arises when we need the password again, for example when a visitor asks for … Read more
Audacious is a free, advanced audio player for Linux and many other UNIX-compatible systems. It focuses on low resource usage, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. It was originally based on Beep Media Player, which was in turn based on XMMS. In this article, we will describe two ways … Read more
Ubuntu, being an open-source operating system, lets you make a lot of configurations to even the smallest of the system modules. Among these things, is the way you want to use your external USB mouse. In this article, we will describe how to make the following changes to your mouse settings: Set either left/right button … Read more
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free Email client that allows users on Windows, macOS, Linux, and other supported systems to send, receive, and manage their Email. With ThunderBird, you can retrieve Emails from your Email provider using IMAP or POP3, and send Email using SMTP. In this article, we will explain installing thunderbird both through the … Read more
CouchPotato helps you in downloading movies automatically, easily and in the best quality as soon as they are available, via Usenet and torrents. In this article, we will explain a step by step process on how to install CouchPotato on Ubuntu. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu … Read more
PDF or Portable Document Format is mostly our first choice when it comes to printing, sharing and emailing documents, especially the large ones. For Windows and MacOS, you might be very much familiar, and also dependent, on the widely used Acrobat products for pdf creation, viewing, and editing. Unfortunately, there is no default pdf creator … Read more