http://maketecheasier.com Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:01:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the past, whenever Ubuntu came out with a new release, the VMware installation will break. Surprisingly, when I installed VMware server 2.0 in Ubuntu Intrepid, it installed and run smoothly, without having to apply any patch. So if you are looking on installing VMware server 2.0 on your Ubuntu ... http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-20-in-ubuntu-intrepid/2008/11/18 Yes, Make Tech Easier is now one year old. Happy Birthday! For those of you who have been with us and giving us your support all the while, we'd like to take the opportunity to say THANKS to all of you. MTE won't be what it is today without all your ... http://maketecheasier.com/happy-birthday-make-tech-easier/2008/11/17 Imagine that you are going to convert an avi video files to mp4 format so that you can sync it with your iPhone and watch it on the go. Now, if you have the subtitles files, wouldn't it be great if you can embed it in the converted video as ... http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-add-subtitles-and-convert-video-for-iphone-in-windows/2008/11/15 Few days ago, I wrote about the various ways that I used to capture screenshots on my Ubuntu machine. In the comments, Imd mentioned about Gscrot being a great alternative screen capture tool. After checking it out, I must admit that it is by far the best screen capture software ... http://maketecheasier.com/gscrot-a-powerful-screen-capture-tool-for-linux/2008/11/14 No doubt the Vista User Account Control (UAC) is the single biggest irritation in the whole operating system, but if you are thinking of turning it off altogether, you better think twice. UAC is a security feature that can help prevent unauthorized changes to your computer. By turning it off, ... http://maketecheasier.com/4-tools-to-make-vistas-uac-less-annoying-without-compromising-your-security/2008/11/13 For some of you who have setup Windows Vista as the guest VM in your Ubuntu Virtualbox, you might have some difficulties in getting the Vista guest to access the shared folder in your Ubuntu host. If you are having this problem, here is the way to mount the shared ... http://maketecheasier.com/share-files-in-virtualbox-between-vista-guest-ubuntu-host/2008/11/12 Are you seriously obsessed with your computer and have tons of computer tips and tricks up your sleeves? Are you always surfing the Web to look for cool useful software and eagerly share with your friends when you found one? If that is who you are, then you are the ... http://maketecheasier.com/write-for-maketech-easier/2008/11/11 When I am writing post for Make Tech Easier, I love to take plenty of screenshots as I feel they can make the explanation clearer and easier. Over the year, I have also discovered several ways to take screenshot on my Ubuntu machine. If you are looking for one, I ... http://maketecheasier.com/ways-to-grab-screenshots-in-ubuntu/2008/11/11 While WordPress is a powerful and easy to use blogging software, there are several useful features that are hidden or not visible to many and one have to dig deeper to uncover the gems. Many times, I have people asking me how to do this and how to do that ... http://maketecheasier.com/7simple-wordpress-tricks-that-you-thought-you-know/2008/11/10 Netatalk is a kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite that allows any Unix/BSD system to run as a file, print and time server for any Mac machine. While the Netatalk package is included in the Ubuntu Intrepid's repository, the package is broken and does not work in the way ... http://maketecheasier.com/ubuntu-intrepid-how-to-share-file-with-mac-os-x-via-netatalk/2008/11/05