A very long time ago, computers didn’t have mice, icons or fancy graphics. Instead of an Operating System with a Graphical User Interface, there was the Command Line Interface. With it, you would issue commands to your computer in a text only environment that is not seen so often these days.

Packt is pleased to announce the release of WordPress Themes Design, which is a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, this book will be invaluable to WordPress users or visual designers who want to develop a WordPress theme.

One of the arguments I often hear from people who are trying to use linux for the first time is that they are not sure if they can switch back to their original choice of OS (usually windows), if they are not satisfied with their experience with linux.

A tutorial showing how to add web shortcuts to Firefox in order to search with any search engine faster. Exmaple: type 'gg download ubuntu' to automatically search for 'download ubuntu' on Google.

Not everything went to plan during the Firefox 3 launch - first the servers just could not cope with the traffic, leaving potential downloaders fuming, and then a security firm announced that it had discovered a flaw that left the browser open to attack.

We have seen a large number of mundane, how-to articles on Linux in the past few days on this website.

Part five of a, now, 6 part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

PHP 5 CMS Framework is a new book from Packt, which will take users through the creation of a working architecture for a PHP 5-based content management system. Written by Martin Brampton, this book includes extensive discussion of the design issues, and how to overcome them in the framework.