“My location” setting wrong on Kijiji? Trying to post in an area but you can’t find how to change to that area? The solution is so hard, yet so easy at the same time! 🙁 1. Confirm you’re logged into the correct account (lol?) and your ‘my location’ is wrong. 2. Click the big fat Kijiji icon top left 3.…
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How to Fix Lost Launcher and Desktop on Ubuntu 14.04
Logged into your Ubuntu 14.04 computer and all you see is the desktop background and can’t do anything? Thinking that you have to totally wipe everything to fix? Think again. I found the solution. After much time and fear that I was going to have to spend time backing up stuff via live boot disk or command line, I thankfully…
Free Android CalDav Calendar Sync with Owncloud
After a long, long, time, the solution to syncing my Owncloud calendar to Android was bloody easy. The reason why I couldn’t get it done is because it seems that google (no surprise) blocks these kind of tools from their app place. They like to have things like your daily schedule and whereabouts nicely available for exploiting. If you don’t…
How to Watermark Document with Ubuntu
This post includes a quick how-to tutorial and an entire kit in a .zip file to get you started right. To simply watermark your documents, all you need is my .pdf files in the kit and a couple of free apps from the Ubuntu Software Center. If you want to change the way I’ve laid it out, I’ve also included…
How to Fix a Viciously Frozen Ubuntu Machine
Although it’s always better to run Ubuntu on a new machine and experience the lightening fast way that it relates to new hardware, if you happen to have an old machine upon which you have installed Ubuntu 14.04 you may have experienced a nasty freeze after you login. I spent many hours trying this and that. I guessed it was…
Weird Bug Fix for Crashing Owncloud Client on Ubuntu 14.04:Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
Not that most of you are going to ever see this or care, but as for me, I just spent about 6 hours over the last few weeks trying to resolve it so I hope as a public service this will help someone both fix their client and save some time! Background: My Ubuntu owncloud client was working just fine…
How to Privatize Your Calendar with Owncloud, Thunderbird, and Lightning
Edit 151224: I had accidentally selected ‘ics’ format instead of caldav. Sorry about that. Now it works! — Getting your calendar off other people’s servers should be a priority. It’s bad enough that you’re being tracked unwillingly but throwing your daily calendar out there to be viewed is borderline twisted. I needed a solution where the sync was happening on…
Why Setup and How to Setup PGP Encryption on Your Email
Preface If you don’t have encryption on at least your email, you might as well send the information on a postcard for the world to see. If you don’t like the idea of the content of your email being put onto a postcard then you need to set up PGP as today’s best solution. Is it amazingly easy? No. Like…
How to Completely Remove Unsafe Microsoft Windows and Replace with Safe Ubuntu
So you have a Microsoft Windows computer. You finally realize that the reason you have no hair on your head is because you pulled it all out at your computer. It is full of viruses, malware, and a host of other programs attempting in vain to stop these from making their home on your machine. Also, you heard the news…
Getting Started with Retroshare on Ubuntu: The Secure Communications Hub
Retroshare is awesome. It’s secure. It’s simple (once you get rolling) and it’s highly useful. I found getting the initial few friends in was a ‘little’ tricky without a familiarization tour so here is a video I made to help folks out. I sent it to my mom so we’ll know how effective it is shortly, we hope…