tips and tricks

Here's your chance to discover a new dimension to Google Earth: Find out how to create your own maps, scroll through historic imagery, or fly across the globe.

Fewer than 25% of students know how to perform a "reasonably well-executed search" of web information. This inforgraphic shares a few essential Google search tips and tricks.

Linux-News: "There is a plethora of tips and tricks that can be used to make your experience even better than it already is.

Read on to discover some of the best tweaks to your favorite SSH client."

Free Software Tips and Tricks: "A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking about how I may build an advanced search utility for my own email archive."

Sven Eisenschmidt has put together a site that want to help beginners with the Symfony2 framework get up to speed quickly with some handy tips and tricks they can use in their development.

Some of the tips listed so far include:

In the spirit of my trademark watch this morning: Earlier this week, Apple filed a U.S. trademark for VOICEPASS, in the Construction and Repair Services category.

Bloomberg casually mentioned the trademark filing earlier today, as did one iPhone tips and tricks blogger and Patently Apple.

The thing about the trademark is that it was pretty easy to find out what it is for, although I havent seen anyone discussing its impact and potential.

So here goes. The description provided to the USPTO for the trademark is pretty long, yet straightforward: Installat

LinuxPlanet: "With regular expressions you can perform some mighty fine-tuned search-and-replace in text files, such as changing all the US-style date references (09/22/09) to UK style,(22.09.2009).

Juliet Kemp open her vast tips and tricks toolbag to share a number of useful and excellent examples."

Linux Today Blog: "Today I have assembled some of my favorite Tips all in one handy-dandy article: the magic sysreg key, proc and processes, fuser, cracking passwords, iptraf, UUIDs, and more."

TuxArena: "Several months ago I created an article with 5 APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) tips for both Debian and Ubuntu available here.

APT is the package manager in Debian and Debian-based distributions, like Ubuntu. Here's part two of that article, with 5 more tips and tricks for APT."

Tuxarena: "This article is a continuation to my other Bash-related post, 6 Bash Productivity Tips. Since that article gathered many useful comments and I bumped into several more over the net, here are 5 more tips and tricks."