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In Linux Mint 13, when you insert a USB drive into your machine, a popup window will appear to show the files and folders you store in the USB. If you find this popup window annoying, here is how to disable this feature.

Some useful tips to customize Linux Mint 13 (MATE) after a fresh install.

Magic 8 Ball is a toy you can use to seek advices when you are bored or need to make some tough decisions but you cannot ask anybody else, even your parents, siblings, friends or your cat. There are a lot of Magic 8 Ball tools out there, both online and offline, but you can create your own Magic 8 Ball script with your unique answers very easily.

When there are a lot of Linux distros around, most distros are unfortunately very similar in features to each other. However, DreamLinux is quite special, this Debian-based distro is one of the few distros that use Xcfe as the desktop environment and it also has a very unique set of preinstalled applications.

Normally when you use the terminal to launch a program, if you want to close the terminal, you will have to close the running program as well. This trick is about how to close the terminal without killing the running program.

10 things to do after a fresh install of Linux Mint 13 (MATE edition)

SolusOS is a Debian-based distro that still uses Gnome2 as the desktop environment and it has gained a lot of attention of Linux users recently. This is an interview with Ikey Doherty - creator of SolusOS- about SolusOS and its future.

Even with the rise of tablets and smartphones, many people still prefer netbooks as their portable computing devices. However, with so many Linux distros out there, choosing the right Linux distro for the netbook can be a tough task for a lot of people.

If you are connecting to the internet behind a proxy in Ubuntu 12.04/11.10 or older, you can find this tutorial very useful because it will show you the steps to make your system update via proxy.

After you edit the login screen, you may want to share your work on blogs and forums. However, you simply cannot just press the print-screen button to take screenshot of the login screen in Ubuntu. To do so, you can use a workaround command to preview the login screen and take screenshot of it.