Issue #184 / Mar 2016

Strategies for getting around flash drive limitations and updating OSs on flash drives.

Cherrytree is a powerful note-taking application that orders text, images, tables, and references hierarchically.

The agrep tool expands on grep by adding fuzzy search capabilities to text string-matching operations.

Whether you want to control your lights or water your house plants remotely, home automation is making inroads into nerd households. Z-Wave technology offers devices for reliable control – a quick Perl script gets you started.

Cache it, if you can! When the latencies of his Internet connection seem to take longer than Napoleon's reign, sys admin Charly comes up with a solution for name resolution.

How will developers have to change their PHP 5 scripts to conform to the new PHP 7? We look at some of the important changes.

Linux OCR software lags behind proprietary applications. We describe some ways to get better results.

We provide some tips for working with Pi-Top – both for putting it together and for customizing and accessorizing it afterwards.

Learn how to use Node-RED to automate tasks, work with web services, and do other clever things.

Compression tools are part of any user's regular toolkit. PeaZip not only supports exotic formats, it also contributes toward the security and integrity of your data through many additional functions.