Conky is a highly customizable desktop monitor for X Window System. Think of it as KDE4 desktop widgets on crack. Conky, a fork of torsmo, has been around for a long time but new Linux users usually stay away from it because customizing it requires editing the scripted configuration file, which can be a bit [...]

Just installed Ubuntu and can’t see videos? This is a quick tutorial to help you install multimedia codecs and non-open source components, such as flash player and more. Bonus CONTEST with PRIZES is as follows: If you had the source code to the entire world, how would you change it? http://www.twitter.com/nixiepixel Follow and send me [...]

Yesterday, lead maintainer of one of my favorite Linux distribution, Linux Mint, made a blog post on the official Linux Mint blog (the post was moved since and the original message heavily edited) asking people from Israel and sympathizers of their cause to not only stop giving donation to Linux Mint but also to stop [...]

If you are like me, who spends most of his time online on the browser, Firefox can be a bit of a drag. It seems like it is going worse with each new release. Part of the problem is the number of memory hogging plugins you use but even on a fresh Firefox install it [...]