For those who are vim fans, a quick tip on how to run a diff/merge task: Open the files with: vimdiff file1 file2 file3 –> Vertical split is default vimdiff -o file1 file2 file3 –> If you’d like horizontal split of files To jump between files: Ctrl-W w To jump places where differences are [...]
Read more →I’m tired of waiting for T-Mobile NL to give me FroYo (Android 2.2). Besides, that controlling which apps I can or can’t have access to. So, let’s get to it ourselves! Starting this process I didn’t have the needed warm and fuzzy feeling because the tutorials I found were not so detailed. Which is why [...]
Read more →Here is a simple and quick way for you to encrypt files in Linux: gpg –output doc.gpg –encrypt –recipient EmailofRecipient@blah.com original_file.doc Further explained: –output (or -o) is the name of the encrypted file –recipient (or -r) is the person who will be decrypting the file. If the file is for yourself only, use the email [...]
Read more →Want to know how to download a YouTube video? Just go and watch the video! It’ll automatically be downloaded for you. Let me explain further… While you watch the video on the web it is being downloaded for you to your /tmp directory. Try it out: go watch any YouTube video go to /tmp you’ll [...]
Read more →A quick tip to get the dust out of our blog If you hear the fan of your computer going way up, most likely that was because some application or process is using too much CPU. Find out which one and terminate it by: 1. Open the terminal 2. Run “top” 3. Press “k” and [...]
Read more →Gwibber, an open source microblogging app for Gnome has now reached version 2.0! Although at 2.0, the developers are not considering this a stable release yet and not making it available on the stable distribution channels. What I could notice first from the upgrade was the UI from: to Which means: it is now easier [...]
Read more →If you’re trying to recover deleted files or files in a corrupted partition, you might want to give Magic Rescue a try. With this command-line tool you will basically be looking for specific file types (searching by their extension). So, for a massive file recovery task, it will not be a good approach. The program [...]
Read more →If you want to run a WebKit web browser with no strings attached (unlike Safari and Google Chrome), Arora is surely worth a try. First plus is that it runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It is fast, has private browsing and looks like it has some plug-in support. Another good news is the [...]
Read more →One of the “I thought it would never come” moments in the open source software industry would be audio and video support in Pidgin. Now it is here! Almost… Windows is not yet supported. With the release of Pidgin 2.6.1. audio and video is finally supported in the xmpp protocol (used by GTalk). I have [...]
Read more →Not long ago I was working with some .po files and needed a nice and simple diff program to merge 2 files. First I tried the multi-purposed text editor vim. Using vim as a diff and merge tool: with Andrej’s article I found some nice tips & tricks and the Vim manual for diff tasks. [...]
Read more →Gnash, the freedom alternative to Adobe Flash Player now supports displaying YouTube movies! The to-do list for Gnash is still pretty large until we’re all freely able to browse the web without the Adobe plug-in. But, at least this is some major good news I found out today. Now let’s hope html5 gives us more [...]
Read more →One of the tools that I use daily is the Firefox add-on Firebug. If you’re dealing with web development in any way, Firebug will give you an enormous wealth of information and tools: monitor how long it takes for each component of your web page to load; edit css and html with a live preview; [...]
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