Google Chrome is an awesome browser and there are a few tricks that you should learn that make it that much better. Some of the coolest and simplest are text highlight for searching and navigation. Both of these tricks will save you an unbelievable amount of time, and they are only but a couple of [...]

By default the echo command will include a trailing newline at the end of a string. There are many times when you may want to suppress this newline for example when you want to format text in a certain way.There are a couple easy ways to do this. First you can use the ‘-n’ option. [...]

In many cases it can be helpful to access text from within a PDF file but accomplishing this can be next to impossible. Luckily in Linux there is a command line program called pdftotext which is included with the xpdf package. This first step is making sure that the xpdf package is installed. In Ubuntu [...]

When a file is saved in Windows and then moved to a Linux system the formatting differences can cause a variety of problems. To effectively use these files you will need to change the format from Windows/DOS to Unix. This conversion occurs by simply removing the Windows carriage return characters. I have explained how to [...]

The end of a line in a UNIX text file is designated with the newline character. In Windows, a line ends with both newline and carriage return ASCII characters. If a file is saved in Windows and then moved to a Linux system these carriage returns can cause all sorts of problems. If the text [...]

This is the list of the most useful Firefox keyboard shortcuts. It is amazing how much more efficient you can be when your not always reaching for your mouse. Controlling Tabs New Tab – Ctrl+T Close Tab – Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 Next Tab – Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PageDown Previous Tab – Ctrl+Shft+Tab or Ctrl+PageUp Select Tab [...]