If you’re the boss of a business, you’ve no doubt had staff telling you they can’t possibly do their jobs at 100 per cent efficiency without a shiny new tablet PC. Or if you run your own business, the temptation to write one off as a business expense is probably pretty tempting. But are there genuine justifications for picking up an Android or BlackBerry tablet, or an Apple iPad? H …
11 Printer Tips and Tricks
Printers are a useful bit of technology and as computers have advanced and become everyday objects, so have the printers that we use with them. Nearly everyone owns or uses a printer regularly, and if you have one then you'll know how expensive they can be to run, not just that but the problems and errors can sometimes drive you to insanity. So to help you with your printer we've put …
4 Implications of Not Updating to Windows 8
News of Windows 8 being available for release in the near future is probably causing some amount of concern with many computer users, especially those who are not very literate. There are still many Windows users who are using Windows XP Windows 8 is predicted to be released sometime next year. There will be those who want to download it immediately and those who will do their best to …
Linux File Permissions: the Tutorial
Linux provides full control over file access which ultimately helps many people to use the system. Files and data are maintained leaving no risks of them being changed, viewed, modified or deleted by any masquerader. As you might be aware of the three types of users in Linux who may have access to the files: User – An account created by the administrator of the system for a u …
Five Useful Shell – Prompt Tips
Here we are enlightening you with five useful Shell-Prompt tips which definitely will prove to be a boon for you. 1) For a short-cut we always define the alias. But, sometimes, we don’t need that and want the original effect of the command. For example: alias ls='ls -la' Now to restrict the alias effect and see the native command, we can execute it in any of the following t …
How to Install and Remove Software In Ubuntu Linux
A major functionality of any operating system is the ability to expand it - to add in new software over time to improve your work flow or just for entertainment value. Linux, being an open source operating system provides thousands of software titles to meet just about every need. But after tracking down the ideal software title, there’s just one barrier to overcome: actually installing i …
Delete Files Older than ‘x’ Days in Linux
Today, we we'll show a way to you by which you can delete files which are older than 'X' days. Suppose you want to delete files older than 7 days then this article will help you to do that. The find utility permits you to pass in a couple of interesting arguments, including one to execute another command on each file. In order to figure out what files are older than a …