Now that you’ve got jEdit and Infoviewer working together to use Firefox to preview your web pages or code, it gets tedious quite quickly to go all the way thru the menu’s just to load a page. So, let’s setup a button on the toolbar in jEdit to launch our preview. Open jEdit and go [...]
jEdit is my code editor of choice. I’m running it on Windows 7. Here’s some quick instructions for setting up the preview of your code or web pages to launch Firefox instead of jEdit’s own internal browser. First, install the InfoViewer plugin from within jEdit. Open jEdit choose Plugins | Plugin Options under InfoViewer | [...]
Let’s walk thru how to use David’s Batch Processor add on for Gimp to batch process images in a snap! We’re going to focus on batch resizing of an entire directory of images but there are a lot of options available in David’s Batch Processor, such as turn, blur, color, resize, crop, sharpen, and rename. [...]
I’m using Lubuntu as my operating system. It uses pcmanfm as the default file system. For most tasks this is ok, but when I want to connect to shares on both windows and other linux pc’s, I have to use Nautilus. Here’s how I setup a desktop shortcut in Lubuntu: Open Terminal (on Lubuntu, it’s [...]
Took an old computer this weekend and wanted to learn how to setup a file server. This is an easy way to take an old computer, stack in a bunch of hard drives, and turn it into a file share for music or file storage. Also handy for backing up entire hard drives on the [...]
I notice that most of my winter, aka “snow”, pictures have this dull gray color to them. For quick white balance correction in Gimp, open the image. Now from the menu on the Image, choose COLOR | AUTO | WHITE BALANCE Gimp’s auto white balance has been pretty reliable to quickly set the correct tones [...]
I’ve been cleaning up some junk files off my linux laptop and deleted files from various directories with no problem. Well, then I go to Empty the Trash Can when I get an error message – something about can’t delete those files due to permissions. Did some google searching and found this helpful tip from [...]
Got the Visual Editor in WordPress 2.8 working again! From the WordPress archives page mentioned in my last post, I re-downloaded a fresh copy of the zip/tar file and unpackaged it. My thought was, perhaps my FTP client is corrupting (by not transferring file types in the correct format (ASCII or BINARY). So, I used [...]
Hi. Ever hose up a wordpress upgrade? Ever upgrade and then stuff went really wonky? Ever dream of going back to the perfect wordpress version, whatever your idea of the perfect wordpress version is. Ok, now you can – visit the WordPress release archives and download zip installs of every major and minor release WordPress [...]
Open up a Super User Terminal Mode (from the Applications menu | System Tools | Terminal Mode – Super User) First, we need to add the repository where all the cool backports and upgrades are. At the command prompt, type: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and add this line at the bottom: deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib [...]