There was a time when you needed to install third-party apps to view and type Emojis on Ubuntu. Those days are long gone. Ubuntu now displays emoticons correctly out of the box. No special software is needed. And there is also a
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Learn how to record your voice, streaming audio or other sounds on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
A trip down the memory lane. Take a look at this collection of the mascots of all the Ubuntu releases so far.
By default, new application windows start at the top left of the screen in Ubuntu. If you don’t like it, you can change this behavior easily.
One of the negatives is that Snap packages are usually bigger in size and take a lot of disk space. Here’s a neat trick that will help you clean Snap packages.
Brief: Learn how to install Vivaldi web browser on Ubuntu, Debian and several other Linux distributions in this beginner’s tutorial. You’ll also learn about updating it and removing it. Vivaldi is an increasingly popular web browser. It is based on Chromium, so
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Brief: This tutorial shows the steps for actually installing Ubuntu Linux on an external US drive with the bootloader installed on the USB. It is NOT live USB set up. This USB will work as portable operating system and can be used
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Brief: This thorough tutorial shows you how to install Ubuntu Desktop on Raspberry Pi 4 device. The revolutionary Raspberry Pi is the most popular single board computer. It has its very own Debian based operating system called Raspbian. There are several other
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If you are running Java programs on Ubuntu using Eclipse, Maven or Netbeans etc, you’ll need to set JAVA_HOME to your path. Otherwise, your system will complain that “java_home environment variable is not set”. In this beginner’s tutorial, I’ll show the steps
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Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage services available for Linux and other operating systems. In fact, Dropbox is one of the earliest services to provide a native Linux application. It still supports 32-bit Linux systems that is also a
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