How to overclock Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC?

Raspberry Pi Overclocking Ft | Smarthomebeginner

This post explains how to overclock Raspberry Pi OpenELEC media center. In Part 1 and Part 2 of my comparison of Xbian, OpenELEC, and Raspbmc, I concluded that Xbian was the fastest and most responsive operating system. However, after overclocking OpenELEC compared favorably to Xbian. Raspberry Pi’s default capabilities are … read more

Simplify downloading movies using CouchPotato Firefox plugin

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Recently, RuudBurger, a CouchPotato developer, revamped the CouchPotato Firefox plugin (aka userscript) that makes adding movies to your CouchPotato queue a breeze. For those who do not know, CouchPotato is an awesome little app that automates downloading movies. If this sounds interesting, then follow our guides on installing CouchPotato (Ubuntu … read more

CouchPotato Chrome extension – easily add movies to download queue

Couchpotato Chrome Extension Ft | Smarthomebeginner

Recently, RuudBurger, a CouchPotato developer, revamped the CouchPotato Chrome extension (aka userscript) that makes adding movies to your CouchPotato queue a breeze. For those who do not know, CouchPotato is an awesome little app that automates downloading movies. If this sounds interesting, then follow our guides on installing CouchPotato (Ubuntu … read more

How to reset Glype admin password?

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We recently explained how to install Glype, the free web-based proxy script, on your webserver or hosting space, configure it, and then secure it. In this post, let us look at how to reset Glype admin password in case you get locked out of it. Unfortunately, the Glype settings page … read more

5 Simple steps to secure TT-RSS reader

Secure Tt Rss Ft | Smarthomebeginner

We recently presented Tiny Tiny RSS to you as a great alternative to Google reader, which is one more way you can extend the functionality of your home server or your hosting space. Hopefully, you already exported your data from Google Reader. In this post, we will show you how … read more

Easily create cron job with Webmin on Linux

Webmin Cron Job Ft | Smarthomebeginner

In this post, I will explain how to easily create cron job on Ubuntu and other Linux system with Webmin. Cron allows you to setup time-based job schedule in Unix-like operating systems. Typically they are used to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, … read more