Category: Tips & Tricks
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The Best of Lifehacker in Upgrade Your Life
The Best of Lifehacker in Upgrade Your Life The second edition of the Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life, is a compilation of the best 116 hacks and downloads from Lifehacker’s archives. This dead tree version of the web site transforms dozens of blog posts into comprehensive, edited tutorials, which will be familiar to longtime readers.…
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Advanced SSH configuration and tunneling: We don’t need no stinking VPN software
Advanced SSH configuration and tunneling: We don’t need no stinking VPN software by Noah Gift In a recent Red Hat Magazine article, Paul Frields gave some examples of how SSH port forwarding can be used to remotely gain access to resources, or ports, from a remote location. This article will show a pragmatic implementation of…
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Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs
Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs Author: Samer Description: I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that I had to re-install all the essential software that I use. It also presented an opportunity to write a posting about how you can outfit your computer with all the…
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Time Machine for every Unix out there
Time Machine for every Unix out there – IMHO Time Machine for every Unix out there Using rsync to mimic the behavior of Apple’s Time Machine feature rsync is one of the tools that have gradually infiltrated my day to day tool-box (aside Vim and Zsh). Using rsync it’s very easy to mimic Mac OS…
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GParted — LiveCD
GParted — LiveCD GPARTED-LiveCD The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card size LiveCD. The CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg,the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest…
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TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux
TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux T r u e C r y p t Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux Main Features: Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encrypts an entire hard disk partition…
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Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters Lifehacker Top 10 Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters videoconverterheader.png So many video file formats, so many handheld video players, so many online video sites, and so little time. To have your favorite clips how you want them—whether that’s on your DVR,…