Kepard VPN Protection Giveway: 3 Premium Accounts

Kepard Vpn Giveaway | Smarthomebeginner

In celebration of htpcbeginner.com’s 1st birthday we are giving away 3 premium VPN accounts courtesy of Kepard. Setting up your own VPN server on your home router or server allows you to connect to and through your own network while you are away from it. In addition you could also … read more

How to install Glype on Ubuntu Server?

Glype On Ubuntu Ft | Smarthomebeginner

Glype is a web-based proxy script written in PHP with focus on features, functionality, and ease of use. In this post, I will explain how to install Glype on Ubuntu Server. A web-based proxy script can be hosted on a website and it provides proxy service to users via the … read more

htpcbeginner.com 1st Birthday: Recap and Next Steps

Htpcbeginner.com'S First Birthday

May 21st marked the first birthday or htpcBeginner (formerly LinuXplained). Truly though, it has been 2.5 year since I started a tech blog on WordPress on my first Ubuntu Server back in December 2010. With nearly 1200 likes, 600 followers, and 120 plusones/followers, we are slowly but surely growing to … read more

How to auto resize adsense based on brower window size?

Auto Resize Adsense Ft | Smarthomebeginner

Recently, htpcbeginner.com has been undergoing several visual (and backend) changes, of which on of the change is to auto resize Adense based on browser size. This fall under the topic of responsive Adsense ads, that has come popular in the recent times in an effort to make web more responsive. … read more

How to install XBMC on Ubuntu?

How To Install Kodi

Having published how to install Kodi on Windows, let us now look how to install XBMC on Ubuntu systems. As you know, XBMC is a free open-source media center application that has quickly become a go to software for anybody who wants to setup a HTPC. XBMC builds are available … read more

How to install XBMC on Windows?

Xbmc On Windows Ft | Smarthomebeginner

XBMC is a free open-source media center application that has quickly become a go to software for anybody who wants to setup a HTPC. This post explains how to install XBMC on Windows (click here a Linux installation guide). Within the last 2 years, the hardworking XBMC team has come … read more

How to install Webmin on Ubuntu and secure it?

Webmin Featured | Smarthomebeginner

In this post, I am going to explain how to install Webmin on Ubuntu and secure it to prevent unauthorized break-ins. Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, explore files, setup cron jobs, DNS, file sharing … read more

5 blogging mistakes I made when I started this blog

Blogging Mistakes Featured | Smarthomebeginner

htpcbeginner.com has seen growing popularity in the recent times but like most people I made several blogging mistakes when I began. I thought it would help others if I think back and highlight some of the blogging mistakes I made, mostly due to lack of knowledge and research, when I … read more

How to display a random recent post in WordPress?

Random Recent Post Wordpress | Smarthomebeginner

This post explains how to get and display one random recent post in WordPress. WordPress can be even more powerful than it already is if you know PHP and are capable of customizing some of the scripts that power WordPress blogging platform. Unfortunately most bloggers are not coders and therefore … read more

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