Take your PC back to 1985 with a cool selection of tools and tricks that build a fully functioning desktop computer on the console!

Sometimes using Windows applications is unavoidable, so in this tutorial we will make use of Wine to show you how to run Windows applications seamlessly within Linux…

Google’s New Facebook Alternative Sparks Personal Data Liberation War. Along with the latest news on the matter, you’ll find a hot-off-the-press step-by-step guide to extracting your friends’ information from Facebook using Open-Xchange. Now, get out there and enjoy this new found liberation. And by all means, go forth and enjoy YOUR data.

Firefox 4′s brand new Sync feature is one of the main attractions of the latest release. It allows you to sync browser data, such as bookmarks, preferences, history, and tabs – but not extensions – across multiple Firefox installations. Here’s how it’s done…

Zimbra is the first enterprise-grade open source alternative for Microsoft Exchange Server. Read on to find out how to set up your own open source collaboration and email server and finally wave goodbye to Microsoft Exchange…

Screencasts have become a very popular way to make tutorials to explain how software or services work in recent years. Let’s look at how you can make them of your own cool project, or anything cool you’re doing with Linux…

Mozilla Jetpack is designed to make it incredibly easy to build Firefox add-ons using a number of common web technologies like HTML and JavaScript. Join Kunal Deo as he demonstrates how to get setup ready for your creative juices to start flowing…

Apple makes some great hardware, but their closed eco system is far from Linux-friendly. Thankfully it can be done – here’s how you can use your iPad, iPhone and iPod with your Ubuntu Linux computer…

The Selenium project has some very useful tools for testing your web applications, including an excellent Firefox extension. In this tutorial we get started with Selenium IDE and RC…

Mozilla Prism lets you run web apps in their own desktop window allowing a certain degree of freedom compared to running the app in a web browser, while restricting crashes to the app’s window. Follow Sukrit’s step-by-step guide to find out just how easy it is…

Is your Apache web server too slow? Koen Vervloesem shows you how to use lighttpd instead. This lightweight web server alternative is perfect for virtual private servers and ageing hardware solutions…

A no-frills personal document management system can come in handy in many situations. Read on to find out how OpenOffice.org Base can really come into its own…