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The Windows version of Firefox comes with a fancy menu button in the title bar. Linux doesn't have that exact feature, but you can come close. Shawn Powers shows us how.
Shawn shows us how to set up a quick SSH tunnel for accessing a computer behind a remote firewall. He demonstrates this from his hotel room 400 miles away from his home network! :)
Shawn rants a bit about Ubuntu's new Unity interface, and gives us a couple tips on how to adjust.
Shawn reviews the Boxee Box from D-Link. Oddly enough, it's not really box shaped. Thankfully it still works well, for the most part.
Shawn shows us the Recompute PC from Sustainable Computers. It's a full blown workstation that you could use to start a camp fire. We don't recommend the camp fire part though.
Linux Journal's Shawn Powers demonstrates Skype Call Recorder for Linux.
Associate Editor Shawn Powers reviews the Slim N20 nettop from Giada.
Shawn Powers shows us how to use the program "alltray" to put applications up in the system tray, even if they're not designed to do so. Shawn demonstrates with Google Tasks and Prism, but you can use it for whatever program you like.
Kristofer Occhipinti shows us how to work with MDB files from the command line.