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.

You might have been tired of the same old text mode GRUB splash screen in your Linux box, right? (Especially those of you who use Ubuntu just for the looks of it ) And maybe, you want to switch over from that blue and black hell to something better. Maybe a more realistic hell with red and black? Here is what you need to do for that.

You can add a background image just like wallpaper to your GRUB menu to make it more attractive. OR, you can also change the color of the menus and the text. Choice if yours to make. So, what you will need is,

Some users expressed the need to boot multiple distributions from single USB drive upon reading the post about LIVE Ubuntu USB. To all of you, here is a way to boot into multiple ISO images from a single USB drive.

One thing to remember here is, this method cannot create persistent distributions on the pendrive. Any changes you make to the system will be lost. The only method to avoid that is to install operating systems to the USB drive and use them as installed systems and not as live systems.

It is very important to make your blog visitors to interact with your blog and to make them stay longer. The longer they spend time on your blog, the longer your contents get exposed. There are several ways to make this possible. One of the most easiest and simple way is to display random posts of your blog. Just display it under a post or in the sidebar or wherever you wish to, and it will do the rest by attracting your visitors to read more posts.

We learned about LIVE CDs in our last post here on noob2geek. When you really think about it, very few people use CDs these days with the price of DVD media so low. To add to that, changes in LIVE CD are not persistent. That is, when you shut the system, all the changes you made are lost and you have to re-do them the next time you start the system. Then there’s the cost of the CDs and the time it takes to burn a CD. The easy way out? Use LIVE USB drives.

It makes us annoying when the Windows Messenger automatically starts running as soon as the Windows XP starts running. Especially, if you do not like Windows Messenger, you definitely want to get rid of it.

In addition of annoyance, it makes the windows start-up process bit longer and starts eating up your memory usage in the background. So it’s better if you can prevent it from running at the windows startup.

So you have decided to see what is Linux for yourself and now you are afraid that you might mess up your entire system if you go wrong. Fear not my friends, a LIVE distribution CD is all you need.

A LIVE distribution is a specially designed Linux distribution which boots from the CD itself. You don’t need to install it, make free space or any of the other hassles which come with installing an operating system.

One of the best things about Wordpress is that the quantity of themes available on the internet. The numbers of themes available are astronomical. The enormous availability of themes is because of the open source licensing and is easy create to new themes. Web Designers can easily create new stunning and unique wordpress themes and release it for the public to use them. This short tutorial teaches you about how to install a wordpress theme on a self-hosted wordpress blog.

Here are some of the good Facebook icons available on the internet. All icons are free and has unique designs for your needs.

1. Simple Facebook Icon – by Comet4

2. Tango Facebook Icon – by DarKobra