Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic, The New Stack, and Linux New Media. He's covered a variety of topics for over twenty years and is an avid promoter of open source. For more news about Jack Wallen, visit his website jackwallen.com.
Once you install Debian to function as a server, you might notice it’s missing something important–sudo. Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing sudo and enabling it for user.
Never miss an appointment, meeting, or deadline again by settig up a daily agenda email and notification to help you stay on top of your Google Calendar events.
Take every precaution necessary to make sure secure shell is protected. Jack Wallen shows you how to easily block specific IP addresses from gaining access to your Linux server.
If you’re wanting to convert an image into text, Google Docs has a powerful Optical Character Recognition feature built right in. Here’s how to make it work.
If you’ve switched from iOS to Android and you need your SMS messages transferred, your best bet is iSMS2Droid. Jack Wallen shows you how to port your messages using the app and an iTunes backup.