If you are wanting to use the touchpad instead or carrying around a mouse, you will need to enable tap-to-click for the touchpad emulate mouse clicks.

If you typically just close the lid on your laptop when you are done and allow it to go into Sleep mode, you leave your system vulnerable to others. By default, Chrome OS does not require a password when it wakes from Sleep mode which means that anyone can easily access your information. Here’s how […]

Chrome OS allows others to use your device to browse the internet without keeping their browsing history. If you have children, this may be a concern for you. Here’s how to disable guest browsing.

Since Chrome OS is a Linux based system, being able to access the command line is a must for advanced users. While it isn’t a straight forward method, getting to the command line is simple to do.

The basic way to alter the system’s date in Unix/Linux through the command line environment is by using “date” command.

grep is one of the more important Unix/Linux command-line utilities. This tutorial will demonstrate different ways of utilizing the text-search utility.

Having a dual operating systems installed can lead to some problems in accessing of partitions in Windows. This is the easiest way to access Linux partitions in Windows.

If you have a need for continuity in your operating system, then you will notice that the System menu contains no icons like the Applications and Places menus. Here’s how to enable the icons so that the System menu looks like the others.

In older versions of Ubuntu, the key sequence of Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for stopping the X server was enabled by default. Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 have this disabled by default. Here’s how to restore the keyboard command.

Installing an operating system from a disk image requires a disk to be burnt which is time consuming. An easy alternative is to use a free software such as Unetbootin.

If you are an Ubuntu user, your iPhone (or iPod Touch) can be used as an emergency external drive. You can also easily access and download images.This can be accomplished without having to jailbreak your phone (or media player).

This recipe is a spin-off from my blog entry on building an inexpensive storage server, if you want more commentary, see my blog.