I love to use open source and free softwares. For email client, I use Mozilla Thunderbird and for instant messaging client, I use Pidgin. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library … Read more
There are different ways to get RAM size, Hard disk size, processor size, etc. in Ubuntu. Here are some:- 1. From System -> Administration -> System Monitor This is kind of Task manager of Windows. You can get the system information like memory, processor and disk info. Along with that, you can see which processes … Read more
Here is a quick way to generate random strings in PHP. I will be showing how you can generate multiple random strings at once. You can specify the number of letters in the random string generated. You can also specify the total number of words you want to generate. I have used str_shuffle function to … Read more
Change current logged in user’s password Go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal, then run the command below:- passwd Then, enter the current and new password and you are done. Change root password Go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal, then run the command below:- sudo passwd root Type the following command to unlock the … Read more
RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. It supports most Subversion and Git functionality. Checkout the screenshots:- http://wiki.rabbitvcs.org/wiki/about/screenshots Download and install RabbitVCS:- http://wiki.rabbitvcs.org/wiki/download You can download and install RabbitVCS for the linux distro of your choice. I am choosing Ubuntu and … Read more
I was in search of a good screen capture tool to be used in Linux. More precisely, for Ubuntu as I use it. You can take the screenshot through ‘Print Screen’ keyboard button. But, I want some more. I was in search of a program which could take capture any specific area of my screen. … Read more
There are some important questions regarding Google Analytics. Information about Unique Visitors, Total Visits, New Visitors, Returning Visitors, Unique Visitors, Absolutely Unique Visitors, Pageviews, and Unique Pageviews might be confusing and need clarification. I had such questions and issues. I googled them and found answers to some important queries for Google Analytics (GA). Here they … Read more
Problem: I am unable to start the localhost server (wamp / xampp). When I type http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 in Firefox, I get the following error message:- Unable to connect Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost. When I type http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 in Google Chrome, I get the following error message:- This … Read more
This article describes how to get country and city information using MaxMind‘s GeoIP technology. You provide the IP address of the visitor and GeoIP can give you country and city information for that IP address. About MaxMind Founded in 2002, MaxMind is an industry-leading provider of geolocation and online fraud detection tools. MaxMind provides its … Read more