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In Ubuntu or Linux Mint and many other distros, when you open the terminal, the window will appear at the top left corner of the desktop screen. If you dont like this default position and size of the start up window, you can edit it easily.

How to disable update manager in the notification area in Linux Mint 13

I have written an article about 4 tricks you can do with MPlayer. Today I will show you some tricks to do with another popular open source media player - VLC. VLC is a very versatile and rich in features media player, and these tricks will help you utilize VLC to its fullest potential.

Meltemi, a Linux-based platform for feature phones, was planned to replace Series 40, the platform that has been around since 1999. Series 40, which runs on some of the top feature phones in the world, has brought a lot of success to Nokia. However, the software was getting old, and Nokia reportedly felt that Series 40 needs to be replaced by something new and Meltemi was that something new.

The "free" command is used to display the memory usage info of your computer. But with the normal "free" command, you get the info only once. To use "free" to display the memory usage of your computer continuously, you can use the "-s" option with the "free" command.

In Windows 7 or Ubuntu, there is the power management option for you to customize things like what to do when laptop battery is low, hard drive behavior when you are using battery, what to do when you press the power button ... However, in Linux Mint 13 - MATE edition, you will not find the power management option the Mint Menu. To customize the power management in Linux Mint 13 - MATE, you need to hit Alt + F2 then type "mateconf-editor" to open the configuration window. On that window, go to apps then expand the mate-power-manager menu and you will see many options to customize the power management.

I just tried Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon today and realized that when you right click on the desktop, there is no option to create a launcher. Of course, you can just drag the applications in the menu to the desktop to create the launchers but this is not very efficient in case you want a custom launcher.

I've written an article about some tricks you can do with ffmpeg, in today's article, I will show you another trick - compressing avi and mp4 video files with a simple command with a only a small loss in video quality.

How to use "cat" to embed a message into an image

Sometimes you may want to run multiple commands in the terminal. Here is how to do it.

Pidgin is a nice chatting client that is pre-installed in a lot of Linux distributions. Pidgin supports many chat platforms like yahoo, facebook, irc, AIM ... but unfortunately, the popular social network Twitter is not on this list.

Todd Robinson, an Open Source entrepreneur and co-owner of Webpath Technologies and On-Disk.com, is trying to set a world record for being able to create and release 31 different usable and complete Linux distros everyday in August 2012. And even more impressive, he will do it alone.

If you are a long time user of Windows or Mac and want to try Linux, there is a high chance that your first distro will be either Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Fedora since these distros are very popular. However, there are some other distros that are more suitable for beginners in my opinion. All of these distros work out of the box, come with a very friendly, easy-to-use desktop and are super easy to install and very well-supported.

After the success of Raspberry Pi, it seems mini PCs that run Linux has become a technology trend. Recently, 2 new mini Linux-enabled PCs have joined the party.

This is how Nautilus looks in SolusOS

How to use Imagemagick to add watermark to images

How to use "pushd" and "popd" for quick switching between directories

MPlayer is a very common tool in the Linux world, it is usually used for watching videos or running audios. However, MPlayer has many more features and options. Here are 4 cool tricks you can do with MPlayer:..

The web browsers in the software repository of Linux Mint are usually set to use some custom search engines. For example, Yahoo search and DuckDuckGo are used as the default search engines in Firefox, the preinstalled web browser of Linux Mint 13. ( learn how to change the default search engines of Firefox in Linux Mint 13)

Disable popup window when running scripts in Ubuntu / Linux Mint