Most of you who read this site have plenty of technical skill, but it might not be put to good use. Perhaps you’re one of many victims of the current economy, or maybe you’re just stuck working for an MBA who can’t tell a website from a wristwatch. If you’re jobless, or just looking for something better, we’ve put together a new place for you to find and post IT jobs – free and no registration required! There are categories for almost any type of IT related job, so browsing for something good is quick and easy.
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The New MakeTechEasier Job Board!
By | June 1, 2011 | 4 Comments
How to Recover Data and Partitions for Free with TestDisk
By | May 19, 2011 | 3 Comments
Sometimes in the world of free software, you have to make the best of what’s available. Sometimes what’s available isn’t all that great. When I suddenly lost some critical data as a result of a corrupted drive, I thought I’d have to shell out some potentially serious cash for a high-quality recovery utility. In my research to find the right program, I came across mention of TestDisk, an amazingly handy free utility which has saved me from the loss of a lot of data (not to mention a rather angry spouse). It’s a command line tool so there’s no fancy GUI, but the menu-driven interface makes the recovery process quite simple, and it can handle FAT, NTFS, ext2-4, and more.
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How to Gather Hardware Information in Linux
By | May 12, 2011 | 8 Comments
Can you name your motherboard’s chipset off the top of your head? What about NIC type? If not, how would you go about finding it? Could you do it from the command line? As with a lot of Linux software, there are many ways to go about this. Some tools are built right into any Linux system, others might require a separate download. Today we’re going to cover several of the ways to view your hardware details in Linux, including the pros and cons of each.
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How to Get Those Hard-to-Reach RSS Feeds
By | May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Has there ever been a site you really liked, and you really wanted to subscribe, but there’s no sign of a feed anywhere? Or maybe an old favorite reorganized their site layout, and now that you want to subscribe, you can’t find the button. Perhaps you just want more sources of news for a particular topic. It’s happened to me plenty of times, and apparently I’m not the only one, as there’s a new service out there at CtrlQ.org that aims to let you ferret out those hidden or hard-to-find feed links. It’s simple, surprisingly powerful, and a lifesaver for feed addicts such as myself.
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How to Multitask at the Linux Command Line with Screen
By | April 28, 2011 | 4 Comments
I’ll admit up front – it’s embarrassingly late for me to have discovered screen. Friends and coworkers have been suggesting it to me for years, but it wasn’t until recently that I had a concrete need for it. Now I wish I’d had it all along. In short, screen gives you the equivalent of the “workspaces” you find in Gnome, KDE, and other desktop environments, but for the command line. It may not sound like much, but like the graphical equivalent, you begin to see the power after a few uses. Today we’re going to cover some screen basics useful for your home desktop but especially useful if you use remote access tools like SSH.
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The Complete Guide to Set Up a Minecraft Server
By | April 21, 2011 | 45 Comments
Minecraft is one of the most engrossing PC games to come out in the last few years, and with the semi-recent additions to SMP mode, it’s more fun than ever to host your own custom server. Getting the basic server up and running isn’t that difficult, but that’s only part of the picture. Once the software is running, you’ve still got to set up dynamic DNS, port forwarding, and user control. And when THAT’S done, you’ve got to configure the game itself. In this guide, we’re going to cover all of that in enough detail to get you and your server up and running with as little hassle as possible.
Note: The exact step-by-step procedure can vary from one OS to another. Whenever possible we will include details enough to work everywhere, but it’s possible your system may not behave exactly as indicated here. Additionally, Minecraft is still in development and is currently in Beta 1.4. Some of this information may change over time.
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8 Of The Coolest Brushes For The Gimp
By | April 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
Like almost any piece of software with rudimentary drawing capability, Gimp includes simple brushes like squares, circles, and fuzzy circles. While they get you by for many basic needs, there’s a lot more you can do. Everything from flowers and vines to flames and bubbles can be created by brushes, and today we’re going to show you some of the coolest ones out there.
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Perform A Reverse Image Search With TinEye
By | April 7, 2011 | 2 Comments
When I first heard of TinEye, my first thought was “What exactly is a REVERSE image search?” Well it turns out it’s quite clever and useful. If you’ve got an image, TinEye will examine the actual image contents (not just keywords, tags, and such) to find the source (or any other instances) of that image. Of course it doesn’t have ALL the images on the web, it’s currently at about 2 billion, but that’s enough to make it already useful. There’s a web front-end, plugins for most of the major browsers, and even an API for external tasks. How useful can reverse image search be? Let’s find out.
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Play Your Music Anywhere with Amazon’s Brand New Cloud Player
By | March 31, 2011 | 1 Comment
Amazon just released their new Cloud Player service to go alongside their Cloud Drive and MP3 Store. What this means is that we’ve all now got access to a free 5GB of space to not only hold our music but stream it anywhere, with iTunes integration, playlists, album art and all. Word on the net is that Google and Apple are heading in the same direction, but if Amazon’s quick entry can grab enough early adopters, it could change the game. Today we’re going to take a look at this new service to see if it really offers enough to make an impact in the notoriously complicated, finicky, and unpredictable world of digital music.
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DexOS – The Tiny Toy OS That Runs Like a Game Console
By | March 24, 2011 | 6 Comments
Most of the time at MTE, we focus on tutorials, reviews, and other practical applications of modern technology. Occasionally, however, some neat new toy pops up that we’ve just got to share. Such is DexOS, and if you’ve got an affinity for custom operating systems or new ways of computing, you might enjoy tinkering with it as much as I do. It’s a custom OS written entirely in assembly, which means it’s FAST and SMALL. How fast and how small? This author has seen it start up in a virtual machine in about 5 seconds, and it can fit on a floppy disc. That’s right, a floppy disc.
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