What is a PDF? PDF is short for Portable Document Format. In short, PDF is universal; A document that displays the same on any device that supports reading PDFs and pretty much every device from your smart phone (even some [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mac OS X’
How To Show Hidden Files in OS X
In following the tutorials here at Almost Geek, you will often need to look at your systems hidden files for copy or move things around. OS X makes showing hidden files a chore, in fact I had to search for [...]
How to Show Hidden Files In Ubuntu
The default install of Ubuntu includes the Gnome desktop environment and the Nautilus file manager, this is the Linux equivalent to Windows Explorer or Mac OS X’s Finder. In Ubuntu and Linux in general most programs hold their settings and [...]
First Installs for Ubuntu
With the release of Ubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic Koala last week it was time for me to do a fresh install of Ubuntu on my main machine which dual boots Vista and Ubuntu. For the most part I upgrade my [...]
Open Source Software
Here at AG you will often see me recommend open source and/or free software. There are four main reasons for this: Most are cross platform. That means you can use the same programs and files on Windows, Linux, and OS [...]
