Fax to the Future — How to send and receive a fax in the 21st Century By Les Pounder published 21 July 25 Send and receive a fax from the comfort of your computer, no fax modem required.
Best Amazon Prime Day Deals Live — The Best Tech & PC Hardware Deals you can still get before Prime Day ends By The Editors of Tom's Hardware last updated 11 July 25 Here is live coverage of the best Amazon Prime Day deals across tech, PC hardware, laptops, SSDs, peripherals, accessories, and more.
Best Soldering Irons and Stations 2025 By Les Pounder last updated 1 July 25 Choosing the right soldering iron can be difficult. Do you need temperature control, hot air rework and high wattage irons to do a good job?
Before Windows 10 goes EOL, I'm testing three alternative Linux distros to save my 6-year-old laptop from the landfill By Les Pounder last updated 27 June 25 Windows 10 goes EOL on October 14 2025 and I’m testing three alternative Linux distros that the community are raving about.
How to add non-Steam games to your Steam Deck with Heroic Games Launcher By Les Pounder published 25 June 25 Valve’s Steam Deck typically stores my neglected Steam games library, but with Heroic Games Launcher, I can now keep my Amazon, GoG, and Epic games close at hand and ready to play.
How to use Steam’s in-game performance monitor to display real FPS with DLSS or FSR frame generation active By Les Pounder published 24 June 25 Valve’s new in-game performance monitor can report real and DLSS / FSR-generated frames at the same time.
I've been gaming on Windows for over 30 years, but now I'm giving Linux a shot By Les Pounder last updated 20 June 25 Hopefully I can play more than Super Tux Kart
I've spent 15 years burning my hands so you don't have to — these are my 21 hottest soldering iron tips By Les Pounder published 20 June 25 We have the hottest soldering iron tips for you. Learn how to master this essential maker skill as we reveal the secrets of how we solder.
How to manage Linux network connections via nmcli and the terminal By Les Pounder published 14 June 25 Linux has a great network management GUI but sometimes we need to get our hands dirty in the terminal. In this how to we look at how to manage connections on a typical Ubuntu / Debian Linux machine.
How To Delete Files and Directories via the Linux Terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 12 June 25 Removing files and directories using the Linux command line is very efficient and can be used directly, or when accessing a system remotely.
How to Run a Linux OS on your Chromebook By Les Pounder published 12 June 25 Running Linux on your Chromebook used to be fraught with hacks and complications, but now we can easily run a Linux virtual machine alongside Google’s cloud based OS.
How To Create a Custom Linux App Menu — Zenity Makes It Easy By Les Pounder published 12 June 25 Learn how to write a Bash shell script that will have all of your favorite apps ready to go!
How To Move and Rename Files in the Linux Terminal By Les Pounder published 12 June 25 Managing files across a remote connection, or sat at your desk, the Linux terminal is the place to be. Learn how one command can be used for two different purposes.
How to rip your audio CDs to MP3, FLAC from the Linux terminal with abcde By Les Pounder published 12 June 25 Rip your CDs directly from the Linux terminal using the abcde bash tool.
How to Use Tio — Connecting to Serial Devices with Linux By Les Pounder published 11 June 25 Tio, is a tool for Linux that enables easy and fast connections to serial devices. If you are working with the Raspberry Pi Pico or Arduino, then this is a great tool for you.
Third-Party Apps Made Easy — Simplify Linux App Installations Using Deb-Get By Les Pounder published 11 June 25 Manage your third party applications as easily as software from the official repositories with deb-get.
Boot Up in Style — Design Your Own GRUB Menu for Linux By Les Pounder published 11 June 25 Using Grub Customizer, add a custom background to your Grub boot menu.
Learn How to Archive Files in Linux with TAR By Jo Hinchliffe published 10 June 25 In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression methods to squeeze every last byte of space.
Getting To Know the Linux Filesystem — Demystify the directories By Les Pounder published 10 June 25 It may look intimidating, but the Linux filesystem isn’t a maze of dead ends. Here’s the map that you need to learn more about an OS that runs on computers big and small.
How To Manage Linux Users via the GUI and Terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 10 June 25 Managing users in Linux is easy and we’ll show you how to use both the GUI and the terminal to add and remove users to and from different user groups.
How To Kill a Process in the Linux terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 9 June 25 Sometimes things go wrong and we have to kill a running process. In this how-to we show you how easy this can be via the terminal.
How To Copy Files and Directories in the Linux terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 9 June 25 Copying files and directories using the Linux command line is efficient and can be used while sitting at the machine or when accessing a system remotely.
How To Find Files in the Linux terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 9 June 25 In this how-to we will look at the find command and a range of additional arguments which will give us a variety of approaches to finding files and directories.
Automate common and boring tasks with Bash Scripts in Linux By Les Pounder published 9 June 25 Write your own scripts to automate the boring / complex tasks of your job.
How to turn an old PC into a Linux web server By Les Pounder published 5 June 25 Reusing older hardware as a web server is a great way to learn web development, server administration,
