Easy image resizing and rotating in Ubuntu
By Hamish Taylor
Easy, quick and simple image resizing and rotating is important to many people. When using Windows, you're able to download and install the Image Resizer…
There are quite a few anti-virus packages that work with Linux, such as ClamAV, AVG, Avast!, Panda, NOD32, Avira, F-Prot, Kaspersky, eScan and Sophos. I…
Personalising the desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu
By Hamish Taylor
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to set the desktop background (also…
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to use Dropbox on the popular…
There will never be a "Year of the Linux desktop", but I don't think that is actually all that important. Here's why.
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to encrypt emails using the popular…
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to encrypt local files using PGP…
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, I want to spend a bit of time talking about…
Speed up web surfing in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)
By Hamish Taylor
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring one quick way to speed up your…
Opinion: Why GNU/Linux will ultimately succeed
By Hamish Taylor
In the last few weeks and months, there have been some very interesting articles and discussions on iTWire about Linux, Windows and Mac OS and…



















