A quick tip for command line users: if you want to convert .png files to .pdf: convert *.png filename.pdf Simple! If you want to keep control of page sequence or specific files to convert: convert page1.png page2.png page3.png filename.pdf Needless to say, but I’ll say it anyways, the .pdf won’t be in vector graphics,...
Read more →Just keeping a note to self (and others who could find it useful). How to install Ejabberd on Ubuntu server 12.04: aptitude install ejabberd (for some reason apt-get didn’t work out that well); go to wherever you manage your DNS records and add a SVR record as mentioned here; edit /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg and add admin...
Read more →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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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