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.

The best thing about Ubuntu linux is it’s ability to read and write data on a Windows based NTFS partitions. This has been defaulted ever since the release of Ubuntu 8.04 with inbuilt support for NTFS read and write. And if you have Ubuntu installed as a multiboot along with a windows installation, it is must to have NTFS drive with read/write support enabled to access data easily.

Though there is support for NTFS drives, they doesn’t get mounted automatically during the startup. You either need to mount it from Disk Utility or by just opening the drive. So to over come this issue and get your NTFS drives auto-mounted during the startup, you must install “NTFS Configuration Tool.”

Gnome Keyring is a small utility to authorize applications before opening them. But sometimes it feels really annoying when it starts to prompt to enter keyring password every time when you open some application. So this small tutorial teaches you eliminate the need of entering keyring password over and over again.

This method will work both for keyring with a password being set at some point of time by you and as well as default password being set without your knowledge. Follow the steps:

Finally after a long wait and 5 days of delay, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (LTS) is released officially by Canonical today. It was scheduled to be released on April 24th but was delayed due to some bug issues. However it has been fixed and is available for download. About 45 minutes before it’s official release, the link download page was leaked on #ubuntu-release-party IRC channel on freenode.

Ubuntu 10.04 boosts a whole lot of new features and design. The new look sports a dark theme, and is much better than earlier Human theme. Under the hood, Ubuntu 10.04 release is based on 2.6.32 Linux kernel and has X.org 7.5 with X Server 1.7 and the latest GNOME 2.30 desktop environment.

Soon after seeing the Ubuntu’s Facebook status update, I headed over to #ubuntu-release-party IRC channel on freenode. It was really crowded over there with 1300+ users online in a single room.

Just after few minutes, there were links being pasted by people. And they had kept their eyes so wide open, they had tracked each and every changes on Ubuntu’s download pages. So they finally managed to get the download links before it is being announced officially!

So get it while it’s hot over here.

Recently, I tweeted about Bing’s image search result page for mobile phones. If you have ever searched for images on Bing from your mobile device, you might probably have liked it. Because of the way how thumbnails are being arranged in the result page, it makes Bing to stand out from other search engines. Bing uses some technology known as ‘Seadragon’ to achieve that output.

Taking a cue from Bing’s image search, Google has now come up with a shiny new Image search result page for iPhone 3.0 and Andriod 2.1 devices. Google’s new image search result page not only arrange thumbnails in perfect rows and columns, but also responds to your touch inputs like swiping to see next image and taping the screen to see next result page.

Web Page redirection is used to redirect your web traffic to any page or website you need to. That will ensure that you won’t lose any traffic after you make some changes on your site’s link structure.

Why 301 Redirect?
301 Redirection is used to redirect your web page permanently. This is one of the best way to redirect a page which will ensure that you do not lose any traffic and page rankings. 301 redirection can be setup easily using .htaccess file.

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.

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.