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4 Ways to Mirror Your Android Phone on Chromebook
Updated: July 30, 2022
Chromebook isn’t a traditional desktop operating system. For example, there is no native app support. Most applications like Reflector and Team Viewer do not work on ChromeOS. However, you can take advantage of web apps, Android, and Linux apps on ChromeOS to mirror your Android phone on Chromebook. How to Mirror Android Phone to Chromebook […]
5 Underrated Best Raspberry Pi 4 OS You Must Try
Updated: May 17, 2022
Raspberry Pi OS (previously Raspbian) is the most recommended OS for Pi 4. Made by the creators of the PI itself, one would however find it lacking in features. What about the other Raspberry Pi 4 OS options? Every ‘Best OS for Raspberry 4’ list on the internet recommends usual suspects like Ubuntu and Manjaro. […]
3 Ways to Find Out Your Chromebook’s Model Number
Updated: May 14, 2024
The newer Chromebooks get more years of update than the first generation models. Also, some Chromebooks can run Linux and Android apps. However, some models can’t do either, mostly due to hardware limitations. Meanwhile, modern Chromebook Plus devices also boast of additional AI features. That will make you wonder about your Chromebook’s model number to […]
How to Customize Linux Terminal on Chromebook
Updated: October 11, 2021
With Chrome OS 84 you can open multiple tabs on the terminal. It looks and feels completely like a terminal version of the Chrome browser. Apart from that, you also gave a few customization options. Having said that, here is how you can access terminal customization settings. Before we begin First, make sure that you […]
How to Expand Storage for Linux on Your Chromebook
Updated: October 11, 2021
When you enable Linux on a Chromebook, Chrome OS allocates fixed storage for the Linux container. There is no option to expand or shrink the size of Linux containers thereafter. But with the recent Chrome OS 84 update, Google is bringing a lot of changes; like customizing the Linux terminal, allowing Linux apps to access […]
How to Remove Metadata on Windows, Mac And Linux
Updated: June 24, 2020
Whether you’ re using your smartphone to capture pictures or your DSLR. Majority of those end in your PC in neatly named folders. But these pictures also hold information like camera model, date/time of the picture, details about the camera settings and even the location where the picture was snapped. That’s a lot of personal […]
How to Remove Snap From Ubuntu 20.10
Updated: October 18, 2021
Snap handles the package installation, deployment, and removal of software on Linux distributions, just like ‘apt’. In fact, Snap is a proposed better alternative of apt. It’s been hailed by Canonical and Ubuntu as the best package management and installation repository on Linux. To be fair, it does have a few advantages. For instance, Snap […]
How to Ungroup Windows in “Alt-Tab” in Ubuntu
Updated: October 18, 2021
So, if you have recently switched from Windows 10 to Ubuntu, you would notice that the Alt+Tab groups windows of similar applications. For instance, if you have 3 windows of the same web browser application running, Alt+Tab won’t let you switch between those windows. Turns out, you have to use Alt+` to switch between windows […]
How To Get Linux Desktop Experience on Chrome OS
Updated: October 12, 2021
Chrome OS can run Linux apps, you just need to enable Linux from the settings and then you can proceed with the terminal commands. However, we’re still installing Linux apps on Chrome OS and many users felt the lack of widgets, application icons, Linux shortcuts, etc which is only possible on the Linux desktop. Let’s […]
What’s new In Ubuntu 20.04 (Fantastic Focal Fossa)
Updated: October 18, 2021
Ubuntu released its LTS (long term support) variant 20.04, codenamed Focal Fossa on April 24th, 2020. Obviously, if you are on Ubuntu 18.04 or 19.10, you can directly upgrade via the Software Updater (aka Update Manager). For previous distros, you would have to flash the ISO which can be downloaded from the link below. Download […]
7 Best Ubuntu Dynamic Wallpaper Apps
Updated: October 18, 2021
Unlike macOS and Windows 10, Ubuntu doesn’t support live wallpapers. While you can always download an app from the store and set up a slideshow of Ubuntu native wallpapers or your own images. But, the problem is there’s an end to all those images and they get boring after a point! I needed an app […]
4 Best Text Expander Apps For Ubuntu
Updated: March 9, 2020
If most of your work is done on the keyboard, Text Expansion apps can come in handy. For instance, I usually type around 8-10 hours a day and most of the phrases are repetitive. So, setting up text snippets within a text expander app saves a lot of time. Previously, I used Breevy for a […]
Best Apps for Writing Scripts for Android and iOS
Published: January 27, 2020
The last time I was binge-watching Netflix, I also had an epiphany to start writing short stories and documentaries. After reading plenty of scripts particularly Chernobyl there was one peculiarity I noticed. Every script was written in a certain format which made me wonder why not just write in Wordpad and simply print it. One […]
Best Free DAWs for Windows and Mac
Published: December 20, 2019
You’re starting as a musician and you’ve procured all the hardware that was on your list, be it, mic, synth, etc, but you’re still looking for a DAW which will help you utilize the hardware to the fullest. I’ve already discussed best DAWs you can go for but most of these are industry standards and come […]
6 Best Networking Apps for Linux For 2020
Published: December 18, 2019
If you are dealing with a huge network of hosts, it’s chaotic to deal with the entire traffic and bandwidth issues. At times, it gets hard to troubleshoot an issue with a dead node. In those cases, a good networking app really helps. Apart from these, even if you are beginning in network administration, it […]
7 Best Video Compressor for Linux
Published: December 10, 2019
Being in a media house, we often deal with a lot of videos. It requires uploading content for YouTube, Instagram, and even the website. Dealing with different cameras, file types, software, and even aspect ratios, everyone has a video compressor in their stable. Since I made the move to Ubuntu from Windows 10, I was […]
Learn How to Use Curl with These Useful Curl Commands
Published: December 6, 2019
curl is a powerful command-line utility to communicate with a web server via the terminal. Often, it gets confused with the popular wget command as both of them can upload and download contents to a server and they do work cross-platform. So, to clear things up, here are the differences between wget and curl and […]
Wifite Lets You Crack WPA Password on Any Wi-Fi
Updated: November 28, 2021
Kali Linux for years has been the tool for security analysis and pen-testing. Often, I have seen complex articles on how to crack the Wi-Fi password which involves several complex steps. However, there is an easy way around which requires only 1 tool to decipher any WPA Wi-Fi password. Moreover, the tool is built-in and […]
How to Cast Android Screen on Linux
Updated: June 2, 2020
There are times when I need to cast my Android screen to PC for giving a presentation of Android apps or quicky accessing a document on my phone. I used Vysor on Windows and now since I have totally made the move to Linux, I wanted a similar app for Linux as well. Later, I […]
Rufus Alternatives – 8 Best USB Bootable Software For Linux
Updated: December 2, 2020
Rufus is a popular app to create a USB Bootable flash drive for Windows but unfortunately, it doesn’t exist for Linux. So, I had to go through tons of GitHub repositories and Reddit pages to find the ideal Rufus Alternative. And turns out, there are quite a few options. You can make a bootable USB drive with […]
7 Best Download Managers For Ubuntu
Updated: May 18, 2020
Although all the modern browsers have built-in download managers, they seldom suffice the need. Most of them miss out on basic features like download scheduling or bandwidth limit. On top of that, for some reason, the retry download button never really works. For long, I have been using IDM on Windows as my go-to download […]
Top 6 All-in-One Messenger Apps for Linux
Updated: December 7, 2019
Ever since I have started using Ubuntu as my daily driver, I have been searching for good all-in-one messaging apps. Back in Windows, I used Station which met all my requirements and had all the apps I wanted like Trello, Slack, WhatsApp, Gmail, etc. Moreover, the DND features to snooze notifications of individual apps and 1Password […]
This Python Script Change Your Wallpaper to Resource-Hungry Processes
Updated: April 20, 2020
Process-wallpaper is a python script that set the desktop wallpaper to a word cloud of the most resource-hungry processes running on your local system. While this is not the first time we are seeing this, it definitely looks cool. The setting up of the utility is quite simple but it has following dependencies. python3 GSettings […]
6 Best Clipboard Manager for Ubuntu
Published: August 22, 2019
Although the competition has already started introducing clipboard natively, Ubuntu still lacks in this front. Being a writer, coming from Windows, I clearly miss a clipboard manager on Ubuntu. I often deal with Images from Photoshop or copied text from the web for the article, so I needed a full-proof and a minimal clipboard manager. […]
7 Best Open Source Network Monitoring Tools for Windows and Linux
Updated: October 16, 2021
If you are a system administrator, network administrator, or simply someone who deals with a lot of network devices, then you’ll know how important it is to have a capable network monitoring tool. Though there are quite a few network monitoring tools out there, most of them are closed source and even costs an arm […]