Essential Linux commands for Chromebooks

You extracted so many compressed .zip archives on your computer, you may have forgotten the task is not limited to desktop devices. This short tutorial tells how to extract .zip archives on an Android smartphone or tablet. Which is important if your daily driver is a mobile device.

Google is pushing a lot Android Auto, its car infotainment and navigation system. This collection of tips and tricks will walk you through the key features of the recently redesigned Android Auto. It covers handling notifications, Assistant commands, and supported devices.

Curious about what the cool Linux kids are up to? If your Chromebook supports Linux via the Crostini subsystem, you can play with the terminal. Here are 5 commands essential to almost anything you do on Linux, as well as easy to use and remember.

Have you turned on Linux on your Chromebook? What do you use it for?

Are you migrating to Gmail from IMAP-based email platforms? This detailed, step-by-step guide walks you through transferring your emails. It’s useful also for doing the reverse, i.e. migrating from Gmail to an IMAP-based platform.

When creating charts or graphs, Google Sheets picks the X and Y axes automatically. If Google Sheets makes the wrong decision, or you want to customize the image further, you need to switch the chart axes. Here’s how.

Back to school, back to online learning in these times of pandemic. Here are 7 Android apps to make the work of teachers more productive. They range from class and homework management to community and remote course platforms.

I’m old enough to have delivered presentations with overhead projectors and transparencies. Back then, I created the slides with the SliTeX package for the TeX formatting language.

Wunderpresentation is a modern take on this. It lets you create and run presentation slides from structured text combining the content with design directives. The tool takes care of arranging and laying out the slides from the specification. Wunderpresentation supports also Markdown and provides an API. If you’re a developer, you can generate the presentation source from code.