Question: How do I find out the public IP address of my internet connection? Also, how do I find out who is my Internet Service Provider?
Answer: You can get your ip address and other ISP information using any one of the 3 websites mentioned below.
Goosh (the unofficial Google shell) provides command line interface on the web for several Google services to keep the command line junkies happy.
Linux users who are comfortable with command line prompt, will love to surf the net from command line using Goosh.
Goosh allows you to quickly search Google web, images, news and Wikipedia search. The output is presented in a very nice readable command line environment.
I’m happy to announce winners of the 3 books giveaway contest.
Following are randomly selected winners, who will receive the corresponding PDF version of the book.
Question: How to run Windows applications in Ubuntu or any other Linux desktop distribution ?
Answer: Install wine project, which will enable you to use Windows applications in Linux systems.
Question: I use Linux on my laptop and desktop. But my Mom uses Windows operating system for her laptop. She is constantly getting infected with Virus and lost some important files few times. But, she still wants to use Windows. I can at least help her by installing some reliable backup software on her Windows operating system.
How do I take a backup of my laptop / desktop that runs Windows operating system? Are there any Free Windows Backup Software that I can use?
Almost all applications have the ability to display Most Recently Used (MRU) documents.
Vim editor by default does not have this feature. But using MRU.vim plugin, you can use the most recently used (opened and edited) files inside Vim editor as explained below.
This article is part of the on-going Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks series.
This article explains how to install the MRU.vim plugin in 2 easy steps. This also explains about 7 powerful feature of the Most Recently Used Plugin. This will definitely change the way how you use Vim editor.
For those who use Firefox everyday, using keyboard shortcuts for Firefox browser will increase your productivity dramatically.
In this article, we’ve provided both the Graphical Cheatsheet and Keyboard Shortcut Table.
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Question: What is a timed login in Ubuntu or Kubuntu ? How does it work?
Answer: If you have created a guest account on your laptop, you may want the guest account to automatically login when you reboot the machine.
But, wait. You don’t want that guest account to login automatically when you want to login using your account.
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