The iPod shuffle is a great little device but unfortunately it is buit to work with iTunes and comes with an almost undecipherable file system and database. Apple’s motives are clear here, buy a Mac and use iTunes. Fortunately for us you can save your money as there are a variety of ways to sync [...]

A handy feature about Google Chrome web browser besides its speed and simplicity is the ability to sync everything to your Google account between multiple browsers. Currently the features the support synchronization include apps, extensions, autofill, preferences, bookmarks, and themes. Other services like xmarks (previously Foxmarks) sync bookmarks but to have this feature supported natively [...]

Gentoo Portage makes it fairly easy to update all the installed packages on your system. The emerge and revdep-rebuild tools are powerful and make the process of recompiling everything much less painful than it sounds. The emerge and revdep-rebuild commands require root privileges so switch to root or use sudo. The first step is to [...]