[Thu Feb 25 15:04:25 CST 2016]

A few interesting documents and tools. First of all, if you are a Remember the Milk user, you may like the Remember the Milk Gmail add-on, which adds a panel to the right of your Gmail window with your todo lists. Second, we have this article listing useful keyboard shortcuts that you can use on YouTube. Evernote users can install the Evernote Web Clipper add-on in their browsers now to capture web pages. And, finally, here is a quick and easy introduction to SELinux. {link to this entry}

[Thu Feb 18 08:54:56 CST 2016]

A little (but annoying) problem I've run into several times. I go to a website that requires authentication via a pop-up window. Since the browser already has the password configured, I hit OK, and...well, it was an old password that doesn't work any longer. However, now the URL just shows an "Authentication required" message every single time I reaload the page, even if I do so with the Shift+Reload combination. In the case of Firefox, the way to quickly forget the HTTP basic authentication is documented here. Simply go to the "History" menu, select the option to "Clear Recent History", and make sure "Active Logins" is checked. That should take care of it. {link to this entry}

[Wed Feb 3 15:01:46 CST 2016]

Another useful tool. In this case, something you may be interestd in if you use the Evernote app to jot down notes and keep them in the cloud. The Evernote Web Clipper allows you to easily save any article from the Web onto your Evernote account. {link to this entry}

[Tue Feb 2 13:44:28 CST 2016]

Here is something I recently had to do on the Linux laptop. Someone shared a TIFF file with me, and asked me if I could convert it to something she could view on her computer. I knew I could use GIMP to convert it to a PNG format. However, I wanted to see if I could do better than that and convert it to PDF. Easy peasy. I found an article explaining how to convert TIFF files to PDF, downloaded and installed the libtiff-tools using apt-get, and converted the file. {link to this entry}