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The Elasticsearch full-text search engine quickly finds expressions even in huge text collections. With a few tricks, you can even locate photos that have been shot in the vicinity of a reference image.

Increasingly, surveys that measure customer satisfaction, political opinion, and so on are conducted over the Internet. We researched which tools are suitable for online surveys and which help you the most with statistical analyses.

A couple of utilities and a dash of Bash scripting are all you need to roll out a simple yet flexible text expander.

MultiBootUSB and MultiSystem tools transfer multiple Live systems to a USB flash drive and even install a matching boot manager automatically.

Struggling to keep your data organized and easily accessible? Piggydb can help you turn a collection of data morsels into a flexible knowledgebase.

Armed with a US$ 20 hunk of hardware and a free software-defined radio tool, Konstantin starts the hunt for radio-transmitted data from a weather station.

The Internet of Things is predicted to be a huge market in the next 10 years, taking the dumb objects around us and making them data-noisy.

Despite the popularity of LVM, traditional partitioning is still preferred by some admins. We provide some tips to consider before choosing a partitioning scheme for your setup.

Chat rooms aren't just for people. We'll show you how to access an IRC channel using an automated bot.