Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron has been giving me a good time lately except for the web browsing experience. Firefox 3 beta 5 is included in Ubuntu 8.04 final as the default web browser even though its not stable. Above all, its not even compatible with Wordpress 2.5 and will keep bugging you now and then [...]

Google Docs just keeps getting better and better. Later yesterday the Google Docs team added a new feature to Google Docs which allows Google Docs users to add custom styling to documents using CSS. CSS is basically a type of style sheet markup language which enables you to create a personalized look for your [...]

Security is one of the biggest issues that has been bugging Internet users for a long time and unfortunately there is no permanent cure or solution for it.

Recently my Universiry organized the International Symposium on Security Technologies where guest speakers from around the world discussed and shared about the new techniques being developed to keep [...]

Its definitely hard to remember the usernames and passwords for all the websites that we visit daily. The benefit of using a smart browser like Firefox is that it saves the login credentials within the Firefox password manager and retrieves them automatically when you visit a particular website thus allowing you to access it.
But what [...]

At times where Linux provides a secure and healthy environment for users, it makes other things even more complicated and intricate. Despite being such a user-friendly operating system, it is not that easy to login to Ubuntu as a root user.
Root user has all the administrator privileges so whenever you need to edit system files [...]

I have always wanted Google to allow users to download YouTube videos on their phones, mobile etc but perhaps due to some unexplained issues Google did not allow it until now. Other ways like downloading the FLV file and then converting it to a mobile compatible format is just too complicated and does not always [...]

Google Notebook is a quick-note taking service by Google which was launched back in 2006 but still very few people seem to know about it. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if its is the first time ever you use this service after reading this post. I am going to share 5 ways of making [...]

While most of you would have been using Google Docs for quite a long time now, perhaps many of you would still be unaware that Google Docs lets you post to a blog just like Microsoft Word 2007. There are many benefits of using a blog publishing tool which I will mention in the end [...]

The issue that concerns users the most when adopting trends of cloud computing is the compatibility of web applications with desktop softwares. Google Docs today added a new feature to Google Presentations that will allow users to save Google Presentations as (.PPT) Powerpoint Files thus adding backward compatibility.

To save a Google Presentation as a (.PPT) [...]

Installing a new program in Linux is no piece of cake. Either you have to use Add/Remove Applications or you might have to do it the hard way using the Terminal.
This is where Windows take the precedence as it allows one-click installation of programs and softwares. The good news is that it can also be [...]