System Monitoring is one of the key factor to keep an eye on what’s really happening behind the scenes in your operating system. People who are very much interested in the system performance and optimization often tend to check the resource usage of various applications, components and other system related processes.

There are many ways to monitor these processes. On a personal computer running Linux with GUI environment, there are quite a lot of apps and programs tailored exactly to do this job. Many Linux distributions will have one inbuilt as well. But there are few scenarios where you wont be able to get the luxury of GUI, so you will entirely have to depend on CLI or the Command Line Interface. SSH is one good example for this, where you can connect to remote computer and operate it with commands.

If you are running a website and working hard to enhance its web presence and to help maintain a good status of the flow of traffic, then you ought to work out on several aspects of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Though you can do most of the optimization stuff manually, it will be good if you use a better tool to help manage it. And if you are very much interested in optimizing your site for Google search engine, then Google has a well developed tool for it. And that is the “Google Webmaster Tools”

Sometimes you come across an error when you start your Windows XP computer which says “NTLDR is missing”. This is because you might have deleted the NTLDR file from your windows installation partition. NTLDR is a boot loader for windows XP. If you encounter with this problem, better do not panic, because it is very simple to troubleshoot it.

For all those unfortunate enough to have a very bad DNS from their service provider, the ability to set your own DNS is a must. Here I will be giving a short tutorial on how to set a DNS using network manager under gnome. What you need to do is :-

1. Go to networkmanager -> edit connections. This can be done by right clicking on the gnome panel icon and clicking on edit connections.
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Ever wanted to type some simple and very widely used characters other than the $ sign? A £ maybe? Or a ¢? Maybe you just wanted a © or ® symbol for your blog. This can be really painful under Linux as you will have to enter character map, or maybe copy the letter from somewhere else and paste it. What if the function were available on the keyboard itself? The answer to your prayers is here. The compose key.

One of the best thing about Ubuntu is that the availability of constant updates. The download includes updates for the operating system and its application as well. The interval between updates is so shorter it makes you to get updates almost every day or sometimes more than once in a day.

Though this is good for maintaining healthy status of your Ubuntu, it turns out to be annoying sometimes when you don’t want to update it everyday. So instead you can opt to update it once in a week or month.

Is there a way to seperate the history for all the admin user accounts who ultimately make use of the command ’su’? Instead of having all the history dumped into a single history file, why not have multiple history files, each corresponding to the particular user in question? Using a simple bash script you can have different history files for all different users. There are a few simple steps to do this.

Bored of using the same old default Safari icon in your dock? Here are some of the 10 beautiful icons for your Safari web browser which gives a whole new look to your safari dock icon. You can use any of these icons as dock icon for your Safari in any dock applications. All these icons are free to download and can be used for personal and non-commercial purposes.

1. Black Aqua Safari Icons – by Plexform

Did you ever get into (a lot of) trouble because someone found some information on your computer they should not have? Want to hide sensitive information from spying eyes? Here’s the best way to deceive all such nosy people away.

An image file like JPG is read from the beginning of the file and terminated with an ‘End of Image’ marker. An archive file like ZIP has its metadata stored at the end of the file. Put them together and the image will be read as a valid image file and the appended ZIP file will be read as an archive. As easy as that. How to do it? Simple…

The best thing about a blog post is that its title. A good title always attracts visitors faster. So it is very important to think before you ink and give out some crappy title to your blog post which sometimes maybe is irrelevant or not appealing. The best way to give a title is by making sure that at least one or few words from your blog post should also be present in the title.

So if you want your blog post to get attention faster in search queries, then giving a good title matters the most. If your keywords are good but not the title, the chances are that your blog post will appear in the search result but won’t get any visits due to bad title.