Your Ubuntu system uses as the default Terminal application bash or dash. You type your commands against a default prompt that usually lists your username, hostname and current directory in some predefined color theme. The bash provides many customization options
Although there are a lot of newer and faster web browsers available these days, you might still prefer installing and using one of the oldest and stable web browsers currently available. The general opinion is that it is a slower
When you plug in a USB drive on our system, it usually mounts automatically; creating a directory by your username under the media folder. You can also access it through the file manager running on your system. Unfortunately, this is
Taking timed screenshots is very important for a Linux user, especially when you want to capture your screen or window in a specific state or time. For example, if you want to capture how a program behaves after n seconds,
When we delete a file or folder from our system, it moves to the Trash folder(Linux) or the Recycle Bin(Windows). Time and again, we need to get rid of these mostly useless files and folders residing in our system trash
As we all know, Skype is the most popular platform to connect people through their computer systems. You can freely connect to anyone all around the world through text, voice, and video calls. You can also choose to call people
The CAT command in Linux is not only helpful in creating text files, displaying their contents, but also in merging text from two or more text files. The merged text can then be saved to another text file. In this
We all have our preferences when it comes to the application we want to use for opening and working with a certain file type. For example, whenever I start using a new version of an operating system, I install and
As a command line newbie, you might feel that the same task you quickly used to perform through the graphical interface might ask for a lot of commands in the command line. However, as you slowly become a command line
Sometimes our systems are loaded with the same files residing in different locations, eating up our memory resources. There are instances when we download a file to a location and then re-download and save it to some other location. We