Hardware technical Info

Make sure you have dmidecode installed

sudo apt-get install dmidecode

Motherboard model

sudo dmidecode -s baseboard-product-name

Motherboard details

sudo dmidecode -t baseboard


hardware info

sudo dmidecode

Gimp Hints

Try holding crtl, alt, and/or shift when you use the shape tools, or when resizing things. Most people know something like hold shift to make a circle/square/keep proportions, but often Alt will let you draw/resize from the centre instead of from the corner.

uTorrent Easter Eggs

Go to 'About uTorrent' under 'Help' and hit 'T', you can play Tetris

Turn your speakers up and click the utorrent logo in the about box

Tricks in Google Chrome

Just type "askew" in the Chrome search bar .... or "tilt"

Do a Google Image Search for "Atari Breakout"

Most websites have a /robots.txt after the .com, .org etc.. It shows a list of URL's websites don't want searching by search engines.

More useful.

Press F6 to make your cursor go immediately to address bar.

CTRL + and -   Zooms in and out of screen.

CTRL and F search text within browser page.

CTRL+SHIFT+V paste without style 

Press F5 to reload page

CTRL and F5 to delete cache and reload page

Still forget about these sometimes LOL :

CTRL+C to copy

CTRL+V to paste

Chrome Search: If you visited a site often in the search bar just type TAB after the site to search that site

Google Search History - www.google.com/searchhistory/

If enabled on your account you can see your google search history from the day you created a google account (gmail, drive, google+ etc.)

Once you navigate to this page, you can type anything in the search field and find any search related query. (Ex: type in "cat" and any search with the word cat in it will pop up)

Google Earth flight simulator

*Click Tools > Enter Flight Simulator

*Press CTRL + Alt + A

Google Sets

Open a Google spreadsheet, type any sequence of any words (ex: New-York, Los Angeles, Dallas,..) scroll down while holding control and see Google trying to complete your logic. Its called Google sets.

Convert Youtube videos on the fly

Use VLC to convert and save the audio (for example) from youtube.

Open VLC

Use CTRL + R to open Media Tab and move over to Network Tab

Paste in URL of the file from the browser bar

Go to the bottom of the tab and press the upside down triangle next to the "Convert/save" button

This opens the options screen where you can change the quality  and other options.

Change output to mp3 or flac (whatever your choice), change anything else you want to

Name your output file and path

Press convert/save button


Alternative that may work to download Videos directly.

Put an 'ss' if front of 'youtube' in the url