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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.

Nothing protects your data like a well-conceived system of backups. However, no one is perfect, and mistakes happen. In most cases, you can recover data you thought was lost by sending your disk to a data recovery service.

Armed with just standard Linux tools, users can recover files, resurrect partitions, and rescue damaged media.