Tutorials – Guides

Dual boot Windows 8 and Windows 7 side-by-side

Eager to get your hands on theWindows 8 Consumer Preview? Before you download and mount that ISO image, you’ll have to pause for a second and think about how you want to install it. Dual booting allows you to [...]

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What Is A Chromatic Aberration, And How Can I Fix It?

You may have heard photographers talk about “Chromatic Aberration” like it’s a disease. Today, we’ll give a explanation of what this term means, and share an advanced technique for removing it from photos, should the need arise. A function [...]

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How to Synchronize Your Configuration Files with Ubuntu One

Ubuntu One lets you easily synchronize files and folders, but it isn’t clear how to sync configuration files. Using Ubuntu One’s folder synchronization options or some symbolic links, you can synchronize configuration files across all your computers. The same method should [...]

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How to Identify Network Abuse with Wireshark

Wireshark is the swiss army knife of network analysis tools. Whether you’re looking for peer-to-peer traffic on your network or just want to see what websites a specific IP address is accessing, Wireshark can work for you. We’ve previously [...]

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How to Add Any Application Shortcut to Windows Explorer’s Context Menu

With a quick registry tweak, you can add any application to any Windows Explorer context menu. You can even add application shortcuts to your desktop’s context menu and launch your favorite applications just by right-clicking on your desktop. We’ve [...]

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Share Files Between a Windows 8 Virtual Machine and a Windows 7 Host Machine in VMware Workstation

When running the latest version of Windows 8 in a virtual machine in VMware Workstation, the shared folders feature doesn’t work because you can’t install VMware Tools. So, how are you supposed to transfer files between your VM and [...]

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From the Tips Box: Recycling Android Phones, Glowing Light Switches, and Encrypting Dropbox

Once a week we round up some great tips from the HTG tips box and share them with everyone; this week we’re looking at recycling Android phones for use around the house, increasing safety with a glowing LED switch, [...]

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How to Make Simple Graphical Shell Scripts with Zenity on Linux

Zenity adds graphical interfaces to shell scripts with a single command. Shell scripts are a great way to automate repetitive tasks, but they’re normally confined to the terminal — Zenity brings them out of the terminal and onto your [...]

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How To Create Photorealistic Caricatures With Photoshop

Even if you don’t have much drawing talent, it’s surprisingly easy to create a photorealistic caricature from a photograph with good resolution and a few minutes in Photoshop. Grab an image and get ready to become a caricature artist! [...]

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How to Remotely Collect Server Events Using Syslog

Have you ever wished that instead of having to manually login to a server in order to see the system log, the events would simply come to you? How-To Geek goes into how to setup a syslog collector. Overview Syslog is used [...]

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How to Use the Mouse to Get Around in Windows 8

Windows 8 was clearly designed with touch screens in mind. Using Windows 8 with a mouse can be disorienting at first — many of the tried-and-true Windows interface conventions have changed. You can still get around Windows 8 and [...]

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How Linux is changing lives in Zambia

Elton Munguya is the 28-year-old unit director of a moderately large residential and business ISP and network service provider. His organisation counts many important institutions among its customers: the local bank, a hospital, several primary and secondary schools, the [...]

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How to create a Windows 7 system repair disc

The worst moments of our computing lives are all based around the same situation: you’ve turned your system on, and Windows, for whatever reason, won’t start. What a nightmare. Has your computer turned into so much useless metal? Have [...]

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How to manage an open source project

Put yourself in their shoes – that’s the most important thing to remember as the boss of a free software project. Whether you’re handling a code patch from an argumentative contributor or trying to attract users via a release [...]

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Build A Free, Full-Featured Mail Server On Gentoo Linux With iRedMail

We’re going to set up a free, full-featured mail server on Gentoo Linux, all mail service related components are free and open source, and you own all data. The installation process is extremly easy and smooth. By following this [...]

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