A Selection of the Very Best Open Source Tutorials and Tools

Regularly, we at OStatic update our collections of open source resources, tutorials, free open source books, reviews, product comparisons and…

FreeFileSync – Visual folder comparison and synchronization

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or…

Simple Linux Auditing

Basic Linux system auditing is a bit tricky and data collected and information of that is out of place and…

5daysprofitable: A corporate web site, start to finish, in 4 hours

In my previous article, I explained that I would embark in the Herculean task of starting a company, and make it successful and profitable, in just 5 days. And by using free software. The first piece of this complex puzzle is a corporate web site. I had mine ready in less than 4 hours, start [...]

From Zero to Drupal in 30 Minutes

The flexible Drupal content management system (CMS) lets you build all kinds of websites, from simple blogs to complex giant…

Blending Multiple Images and Creating Captions in Gimp

One of the funnest features of digital image editing is taking pieces of different images and blending them together in…

Make Self-Extracting Archives with makeself.sh

When making your custom scripts or software available to someone else, it’s a good idea to make that content as…

Easily Edit and Create Custom Launchers, Desktop Entries in Gnome 3 [Unity and Gnome Shell]

Gnome 2 has this excellent feature to create custom launcher from simple right click menu option. Unfortunately this ability has…

How to create a business card with GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo…

Creating Custom Fancy Address Labels in LibreOffice

There are something like a squillion and one different Avery® and Avery-compatible address labels you can buy, and with the…

Linux: 20 Iptables Examples For New SysAdmins

Linux comes with a host based firewall called Netfilter. According to the official project site: netfilter is a set of…

Build a Linux Home Web Server For Under $250

Now-a-days pretty much everyone and their hipster grandmother is blogging, publishing web articles or sharing some sort of digital content…

Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD

This article is about how to create a DVD image of the Ubuntu distribution on your machine with the exact…

How I backup my WordPress sites

When I first started using WordPress back in March, 2006, one of the first bad habits I go into was…

Four Hidden Tools in Scribus

Scribus is a powerful tool, but its menus are poorly laid-out. While you can usually find the features you most…

9 Cool SSH Tricks You May Not Know

Sorry for the lame title. I was thinking the other day, about how awesome SSH is, and how it’s probably…

PartedMagic: A Swiss Army Knife for Hard Drive Resuscitation

I started out looking for a handy disk partitioning tool to repair a colleague’s ailing computer. I ended up finding…

Help for osCommerce administrators

osCommerce systems are currently being targeted by a mass hacking attack – online shop administrators need to act immediately. This…

How To Create an Ebook with OpenOffice.org

Do you want to see your name on the front page of a book? It’s easier than you might think….

Sniffing Passwords Over a Wifi Connection [Linux]

Now here’s where some fun stuff starts! I hope many of you have followed my installing Backtrack 5 guide and…