A tweak for users with a Multi-cored machine who wants to utilize the number of core available to speed up boot time process. Open msconfig by typing it on run. Select The boot TAB Select Advanced Options modify the number of cores you wanted to be used on boot as shown on the image above. Reboot to take effect. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the

You might be wondering what happened to the applications you opened after pressing the home button of your iPhone. Well, its not closed yet, it’s still running and hidden. If you are not using it, you need to close it because it is using/draining the battery. Here is a simple how to: double press the home button consecutively and you will see all the applications you have opened before you read this post as shown on the image above long

Steps on how to edit Linux Mint’s Cinnamon Menu: Right click on the menu as show on the image above Select Edit Menu Do your thing Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

I have some problems in controlling my laptop’s brightness on Linux Mint 13. My laptop’s specification is found on this page. Just a summary I am using NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 2GB Dedicated VRAM. Here are the steps I followed to get control on my laptop’s brightness. Open the terminal Edit grub (sudo nano /etc/default/grub), Around the 11th line, there will be something like: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”. Change it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor” Save the file Update your grub (sudo update-grub2)

Playing mp4 files over the internet on windows OS is easy since quicktime plugin is supported and easily accessible.  To play mp4 files in linux you can use VLC which commonly installed by default on new versions of Linux OS such as ubuntu and linux mint.  Below is an illustration on how to play/open mp4 files over the internet. 1. Go to Media Menu > Open Network Stream 2.  Enter the url you want to open and click play to start

From Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I switched to Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon because of some personal reasons. Now, I have a fully functional Linux mint on my Aspire 4755G with the following specifications. *-cpu description: CPU product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz vendor: Intel Corp. version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz size: 800MHz capacity: 800MHz width: 64 bits clock: 100MHz  *-memory description: System Memory size: 8GiB *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics

If you get an error in phpMyAdmin which is shown as: is caused by your phpmyadmin’s conf.inc.php and your php configuration. In your conf.inc.php check for the line and on your php.ini, look for the line: The value on your phpmyadmin’s config file much not exceed your php.ini’s value. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post