Backups are a technology or process that everyone — everyone! — needs to consider. This article looks at some on-line backup options for Linux that can apply to the spectrum of home to enterprise-class users.

Rhythmbox ships with many popular plug-ins already installed - such as lastfm scrobble support, visualizations, DAAP music sharing and iPod support, but you can expand Rhythmbox's features further with third party plug-ins that range from a 10 band graphic equalizer to simple 'jump to now playing' hacks.

If you are the only user on your Ubuntu system (or if you have a default user on a Ubuntu system that should always be the user logged in) then you might want to consider setting up auto login

I know a lot of Linux freelancers have iPhones, so ere are the top 40 apps you cannot live without -- because we know not all apps were created equal, and the last thing you have time for is sorting through all the barely functioning ones.

For a long time I relied on an external hard drive and Jungle Disk as my daily backup solution. This wasn't the most advanced backup setup, but it did the trick. Recently, however, I added a new device to my local network: a tiny Linux-based server with the silly name Bubba Two.

I plucked this from the noise on Twitter: A new project dubbed AerieBSD is starting, some say as a fork of OpenBSD (and from the looks of the planned architectures, I'd say they're right).

There are some great distributions in our wonderfully cluttered Linux distro landscape. Some are very similar to others, and some are wildly different from the rest. The one thing to remember is that while these distributions may be amazingly well thought out, and amazingly well put together their obscurity will present two problems.

If you want to edit your own videos & you are running Linux on your desktop, you must have a look at OpenShot - a non-linear video editor. A Developer Preview is available now, version 0.9.22.