Battery life on a phone is very precious, even these days with our advancements in power. The Google Nexus One and its 1Ghz Snapdragon processor can gobble up your battery pretty fast if you have a lot of background apps running. This recipe shows you Android’s built-in utility to spot which apps are the culprits.
By assigning different ringtones to certain contacts, you can easily tell who is calling you without having to look at your phone.
Huddle allows mobile Google+ users to text with groups from their Google+ circles. By default, anyone on Google+ can start a Huddle with you, here’s how to trim that down.
When tweaking the Android Browser to suit their needs, many users may end up with strange or unwanted behaviors in the browser. Here is how to reset the browser to the default settings.
When checking the integrity of your data, it may be necessary to check your tables for duplicate records. By grouping these records, you can eliminate the unique records from your result set so that you can view just the records that contain duplicated values, making it easier to remove them.
Safari’s Reading List allows users to read web pages later. If you don’t want it taking up room on the Bookmarks bar or you want it on the Toolbar because you don’t use the Bookmarks bar, here’s how to remove it.
When visiting a new Linux system, it may not be known which of the many flavors and versions the system is. This recipe describes a couple of techniques for determining the version of Linux running on a host.
It is convenient to mount an ISO file directly instead of burning it to a CD first. This recipe describes the command used to mount an ISO image on a Linux system.
RPM is a popular software packaging format. Originally named as Red Hat Package Manager as it was developed by Red Hat for their linux distribution. Since then it has been ported to more that 20 operating systems. If you have an RPM file, the only way to get its contents out is to use the rpm utility. This recipe describes how to list the files contained in an RPM. To be honest, I don’t do this often enough to remember the simple command and always have to go through the really big man page to figure it out again.
By setting Ubuntu’s font rendering to utilize subpixel smoothing so that text is displayed clearer on LCD screens and laptops. To change Ubuntu’s font rendering:
Being a Windows user, the KDE desktop is much more appealing than the Gnome interface. You don’t have to reload your computer with Kubuntu to get the KDE desktop, just follow these steps instead:
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