I recently finished my college and had a lot of irritation in the last semester while working on my project report. As the size of the report grew and more and more content flew in, keeping track of where each point was mentioned and then adding it manually to the table of contents at the beginning was a daunting task.

I was looking for a way out of all the hassles. I even thought about exporting the whole document as HTML and writing a script for generating the table of contents.

Google Buzz took everyone by a storm. A small one at that, but people who frequently use GMail now had the ability to track their friends and follow their activity from within GMail. Google not only allowed feeds from its own services like Picasa, we can also get the updates from some approved services like Twitter and as it turns out you can also add your own WordPress feeds to Buzz if you want. Google had done it again – well almost.

A hyperlink on the web is a reference to an object on the Internet. It can be an image, a static/dynamic page, a movie file or even another website domain. We use the HTML tag <a>, called the anchor element to generate links. If you don’t want to read the theory, you can skip to the example directly.

Adding a link to an HTML page is quite simple and the syntax for that is,

<a href="url">Link text</a>

Creating links is a useful options many times in certain situations. You can solve dependency issues, save some hard drive space and organize files in any whimsical way you wish to. Links in general are similar to shortcut files in Windows or Aliases in Mac OS. It’s very easy to implement the same in Linux systems. If you wish to directly go to the examples click here, or read through a little theory first and then head to the examples.

After a very successful post on 7 Cool Facebook Icons, here we present 7 more even cooler Facebook icons for you.

Facebook by Geniuos

Facebook by Genious

The major problem new Linux users face is ‘how do I install XYZ.exe here?’, ‘Why can’t I run exe files?’. The question is phrased in many different ways, but the essence is always the same – how to install Windows applications on Linux machines? First, Linux machines do not have a fixed extension for any executable file. We have permissions. Each file has 3 permissions – read, write and execute. All files marked as executable files can be executed provided they have a certain logical structure.

As the Ubuntu’s new tag line says “It’s time for a change.”, indeed a lot of change has been implemented to the operating system, applications and the interface. There are few which you will find it interesting and useful and while few others might annoy you because of a sudden change.

I never liked Ubuntu much, and it seems many people are complaining against it saying that the move to have the buttons at the left hand side (close, maximize, minimize) like we have in Apple OS was a bad one. People find the sudden shift hard to come to terms with.

Have you ever faced a problem with your hard drive which almost (or actually) wiped out all your data? Or maybe your hard-drive got corrupted – in any case, there’s always a danger of losing important data. There is a way to recover from such disasters and that is to use tools which take snapshots of the hard-drive in real time. There are multitude of such tools available for Windows – Altiries, Norton Ghost and many more. Linux tools have not been very good in this area – until now. Welcome Mondo Rescue. Though this is quite an old tool, it has improved greatly in the recent past making it one of the best backup/rescue tools available.

ImageMagick provides one of the best command line image processing tools for Linux. With a support for almost a hundred different formats, ImageMagick can be used to compose, edit, process images in batch and also add text, draw various objects, superimpose them – there’s no end to the capabilities of ImageMagick. We will be going through a series of tutorials with ImageMagick. Today’s tutorial will focus on basics of using ImageMagick and later on resizing images.

Have you ever missed an appointment because you were so absorbed in some thing that you totally lost the track of time? It’s a good thing if you were doing nuclear research at that time you probably didn’t want your link to be broken, but for most of us, missing appointments is a bad thing. What you can do it… Set up reminders on your phone, then again, many people like me don’t always keep checking their phones.  The solution? Learn to use cron jobs. Cron jobs are helpful with your appointments and ‘to-do’s of course, but their real power can only be perceived when you actually start using cron jobs on your servers or workstations to automate backups. Here’s a detailed how-to about the same.