Mozilla Firefox provides the ability to perform a web search using the search toolbar or the search field in the toolbar. The default search engine in Firefox is set to Google. In addition to the search text field, it is also possible to perform a web search directly from the URL or location bar. Sometimes you would want to perform a search in a different search engine than the one that is set as...

The description meta tag is an html tag, defined inside the head section of an html or web page and it defines a human readable description about the contents of the web page. This is a much more detailed description of the page when compared to the title tag of the page. So, ideally a web page will have a title tag and also a description meta tag, each of which does the job of accurately...

The Screwdriver drink is one of most popular highball drinks with numerous variations. As with most highballs, the screwdriver drink recipe contains just two ingredients and is pretty easy to make. The drink gets its unique name because of the preparation process involved in its earlier days. The legend has it that the American engineers in the middle east often added vodka into the orange juice...

Sometimes, you want to replicate just the structure of a directory to another location, without any of the files that reside inside the directory or the sub-directories. It is quite easy to copy over entire directory including the files by using the cp command. But the cp command does not provide an easy way to exclude files while copying or an option that will allow to just copy directory...

El Presidente or The President is a refreshing cocktail martini with a lot of flavor. Unlike many of the other summer cocktails, it does not contain any non-alcoholic ingredients such as juice or soda, which makes it more potent. The drink originated in the 1920s in Cuba, and is commonly attributed to the Vista Alegra in the city of Havana. El Presidente is also said to be named after a President...

Linux doesn’t provide a straight forward command to list all users in the system. You can list users who are currently logged in, you can find groups that the user belongs to etc etc, but really no simple way to get a comprehensive list of all users or list of users in a group. There are several options though that you can use, if you are willing to use the command line to stitch some...

Many a times you might want to disable comments on a blog post or a page in WordPress. There may be any number of varied reasons for thisOld Posts: Posts are pretty old and are not relevant any more. You want to reduce the workload and monitor only comments on the latest posts. Controversial or Irrelevant Comments: Sometimes the comments can get really out of hand, because of spamming or...

RSS feeds allows to subscribe to published content of a website or blog so that they can proactively receive content when the content on the website changes. This is known as content syndication and is usually a very low cost method to keep and retain your readers actively. In WordPress, there is minimal effort required to create RSS feeds, as most of the functionality is built in and enabled by...

Web caching is a mechanism used mostly in browsers where it temporarily stores images, scripts, content and other parts of the webpage locally during the process of web browsing. There are several advantages to web caching while web browsing: Faster page loads: Web pages contain several parts which might be the same across several pages of a website, such as the logo, scripts and some images...

Creating symbolic links or pointers to a file or folder is an important feature of posix based operating systems such as Linux and Unix. Links gives you the ability to create or duplicate “files” in the system with different names with out creating separate copies of the file. This makes it easier to update and modify a single copy where by all the links or shortcuts to the file are...

Creating user group is fundamental to the process of user management in Linux. Most Unix systems come with many user groups built in, most of them system groups out of the box, that is usually sufficient for single user systems. If you have multiple users on the same system, then you probably want to create your own groups to manage the users better. The command to create a new user group is...

Often times you need to copy a folder or file to another location or into another folder. A copy is a process where a duplicate of the original file or folder is created at another location. After the end of the copy process you will have two identical copies of the same file at two different locations. This process differs from a move process where the original file is deleted after the file is...