Getting rid of the items you don’t use can be helpful in navigating the sidebar—a cluttered navigation pane can make it more difficult to find the items you do want (especially if you have more than a few libraries). Technology blog Ghacks has put up a quick guide to hiding them, and all it requires [...]

Here’s a 10-Minute Guide to Setting Up Ubuntu for beginners. It will definitely help you to setup and use Ubuntu on a PC or a notebook. Follow the instructions below and enjoy Linux on your PC/notebook. Tweet

Google Wave now gives bloggers, corporate intranets, and other potential Wave users a way to let the public watch what’s going on in a Wave and, for the truly daring, invite any Wave user to edit. Tweet

Google’s webapps can translate uploaded Microsoft Office documents, but with many caveats involving file sizes and HTML formatting. DocTranslator, a Java-powered webapp, runs your Office and text documents through Google Translate and sends them back with the same formatting. Tweet

Windows users can easily lock their computer when they step away by hitting Win+L; on the Mac, there’s no default keyboard-friendly system lock shortcut. Quick tip site One Thing Well offers a simple, no add-on workaround. Tweet

Since the release of Time Machine, backing your Mac up has never been easier. If you want to back up different sets of files to more than one drive, though, this script will help you do so. Time Machine, in typical Apple fashion, will seamlessly back up your data with little effort on your part. [...]