Monkey business for the geek in you!
Preloading your links before a user clicks them is a great technique for delivering your site content quickly. In this guide, we’ll show you how to speed up your website with Flying Pages by WP Speed Matters. This plugin will automatically check your site for any links that appear on a visitor’s screen and fetch…
Everyone likes manatees. Except, perhaps, for whoever scraped “TRUMP” into a manatee in 2020. Manatee populations have recovered significantly over the last few decades, after hunting and habitat loss decimated their populations. But in early 2021, manatee deaths have suddenly spiked, with nearly 360 known deaths as of mid-February, reports the Florida Fish and Wildlife…
This article presents a simple, open-source Django Dashboard crafted on top of Black Dashboard Template, a popular Bootstrap 4 design downloaded 39k times and used by many designers and developers across the globe. The product might help beginners (and not only) to deliver faster a new Django project and reuse the existing codebase already enhanced with a database, authentication,…
Booking new projects is a key revenue driver for any freelance web designer. But a lot of time and effort goes into both finding projects and getting the details hammered out. Then you still have to do the actual work. It’s not always an efficient process. And, unless those projects are quite large, you might…
Evernote is a popular note-taking application. It was a revolutionary product at the time of its launch. Since then, there have been several such application that allow you to save web clippings, notes etc into notebook formats. For years, the desktop client of Evernote was not available for Linux. Evernote promised a Linux application some…
Ready to take your next business idea from the theoretical phase to the physical? Putting together a business proposal is one of the first must-follow steps. And what better way to do that than by using a template? Sometimes the prospect of cobbling together a proposal from scratch is daunting. That’s why templates are the…
They say you never have a second chance to make a first impression, and that goes double for competitive industries like web hosting. Getting potential customers to your website is challenging enough, but once they click, you have only seconds to engage their attention with something more appealing than the social media stream, email, or…
In August 2020, a set of security vulnerabilities in GRUB2 (the GRand Unified Bootloader version 2) collectively known as BootHole were disclosed. Today, another set of vulnerabilities in GRUB2 were disclosed, with similar implications. Because GRUB2 is a key component of the boot process, vulnerabilities in it can permit attackers to violate the integrity promises…
by George Whittaker Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools are hardly friendly to system administrators while generally considerable effort is required for mastery. As a Linux built-in storage model, LVM provides users…
Capture their interest before you even capture a photo! Berenice Abbott once said that photography helps people to see. However, if you’re a photographer (or if you’re working with a photographer), then you know that it’s your logo that convinces new customers to come and take a look at their portfolio. Competition in photography can…
If there is only one group of people seriously attached to what their graphics look like, then it’s writers. We can repeat that we don’t judge a book by its cover all day long. However, at the end of the same day, we’ll grab the book with the most enticing design. And writers, as well…
Microsoft Azure has just announced the details of its new Azure Arc Validation Program, aiming to further increase customer confidence in deploying Arc enabled Kubernetes in production workloads, and at scale. Canonical is one of the Kubernetes distribution providers to participate in the program, by completing conformance tests for one of its two K8s distributions…
The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the things that made us feel proud to be part of this journey. What do you think of it? Why companies are still going manual Companies…
Lisa Gade reviews the MSI Prestige 14 Evo 14” Ultrabook with Intel 11th gen Tiger Lake CPUs and Intel Iris Xe graphics. The MSI competes with consumer and business 14” laptops and is Intel Evo certified for long runtimes, instant wake, Thunderbolt 4 and PCIe 4. The Evo is available in 3 colors, has a…
Learn how to write blog content fast. In this video, I will show you how to write a blog post in 1 minute. ? Get “Creaite” content-writing software here: https://bit.ly/creaite In today’s video, we’re going to learn how to create blog content quickly and easily, using a ground-breaking AI software that produces website content for…
Brief: Quickly access your terminal that is customizable and powerful for a variety of users with Guake Terminal emulator. Guake Terminal: Top-Down Terminal for GNOME Desktop Guake is a terminal emulator that’s tailored for GNOME desktop with a top-down design. It was originally inspired from the terminal seen in an FPS game (Quake). Even though…
Thanks to Forminator and E2Pdf, you can now quickly and easily generate a PDF from a form in WordPress. This makes it as simple as ever when creating agreements, contracts, certificates, licenses, and more directly from a form on your WordPress site. Plus — it’s free! As you’ll see, when these two get together, they…
Make sure your business, agency, or reseller clients are always connected and powered on with our optimized Managed VPS Hosting. Accepting payments through the web must always be a secure transaction. If your customers don’t trust your site security then they will likely hesitate before hosting with you. Setting proper security protocols can be daunting,…
When building a website, it’s important to find efficiencies wherever you can. Those little tricks that save you time without sacrificing quality are always welcome. The WordPress Gutenberg block editor has plenty of hidden productivity gems built-in. Features such as keyboard shortcuts and UI enhancements that can help us get things done faster. They’re especially…
The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more. This iteration the web squad added…