Today on the Ubuntu One blog it was posted that they have opened the mobile contact sync to a public alpha release.  Their posts states that it “supports many phones”, when I tried to check it out I was locked out of my account.  I have not heard any word of an outage but I
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I ran into a problem on a particular computer where FreeNAS did not like how the bios was reporting the temperature.  FreeNAS would constantly prompt that the temperature was “absurd”.  I found that booting to option two from the boot menu, disabled ACPI, would fix the problem.  The next problem was locating the file which
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Here are some of the top Twitter clients for Linux.  I have tried each of these on Ubuntu 9.10 and each have their downsides.  They all run pretty well, with the exception of Twitux.  It seems to have some memory leak problems.  If you leave Twitux running all the time it will consume large amounts
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This is a short tutorial on setting up a FreeNas server.  This tutorial covers the installation of FreeNas on a single drive and enabling Samba to create a public share.  You can use this to share files between computers on your local network. This tutorial does not go into detail on all of the options
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OpenShot is one of the newest non-linear video editors for Linux.  When it comes to video editing in Linux, there are not many choices.  OpenShot came out of the gate with a bang and their latest release, 1.1, this project shows no signs of slowing down. Linux has always fallen short in the video editor
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This tutorial will demonstrate how to encrypt an entire partition on a hard drive.  You can use this to encrypt an entire drive, or a particular partition.  I use the Ubuntu Linux version of Truecrypt in this tutorial.  Depending on your operating system, you could have different options to choose from when it comes to
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