Windows 7 has made it easy for any user to create an image of their workstation.  They have a built in tool to do a complete system backup that can be restored at a later time, if needed.  System images are one of the best ways to back up your workstation.  For most users, this
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Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Do you want to try Ubuntu without removing Windows or partitioning a dual boot
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Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. This is a nice tool for monitoring your system usage.  You can customize it to fit your current theme and display just about any information you want to view.  This application really helps to keep a minimalistic desktop.  In
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I wrote my first Linux application.  It is a application which will count down from a preset number of seconds.  I have tested it on Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 Beta 2.  Other than that, I have no guaranty.  It is a pretty basic application. You enter the amount of seconds to countdown, select Set, then
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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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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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