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HowTo: Image Magics with ImageMagick 2008-02-09 02:44:00 ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Convert JPG Image Files to MPG Video Files 2008-02-09 02:25:00 That title is very catchy. Yes, this entry aims to convert a few JPG image files and merged them into one MPG video file using a small handy linux tool. Read on. What is Kipi? Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Alternative Way to Convert GIF to PNG 2008-02-09 02:15:00 Here's an entry on how to convert multiple GIF files into PNG file format from terminal. There are many ways on converting GIF files to PNG file format. One of them is using a command-line driven gif2png GIF-PNG file image converter. Description: The gif2png program converts files from the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Lock X While Root With ScreenSaver 2008-02-09 01:50:00 Screensaver desktop preferences prevents your screen from being locked using screensaver. Here's an alternative way of having a screensaver lock your screen while root. Read on. By default, under System > Preferences > Look and Feel > ScreenSaver preferences does not allow locking of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Encrypted Bandwidth-Efficient Linux Backup Powered by Duplicity 2008-02-05 09:32:00 If you are looking for another backup linux utility that supports GnuPG encryption mechanism over file and folder data backup and transfer, read on. Duplicity backs up directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Install Java IcedTea on Fedora 8 2008-02-05 08:14:00 There a lot of java-enabled websites around the globe when visited, checks for specific java version from end users' browser. Most banking institutions does this. Disappointment comes along if you don't have any java package from your Fedora box. If you are using Fedora and you wish to install the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Simultaneous Install of Sun Java and Java IcedTea on Fedora 2008-02-05 07:57:00 From Fedora OS, if you were trying to issue # java -version and it is giving you the below similar output ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ java version "1.5.0" gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Install K9Copy on Fedora 2008-02-05 07:25:00 K9Copy Description and Installation K9Copy is a small utility which allows the copy of DVD on Linux. K9copy facilitates several methods for backing up a DVD and utilizes libdvdcss to circumvent CSS copy protection. K9copy enables direct backup of a single layer DVD-5 provided the user's computer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: More of Fedora Themes Package 2008-02-01 17:33:00 As a Fedora user since Fedora Core 1, I have to admit that the default X windows system with Fedora is not that quite sweetened and color-coded. Yes, it has striked a few but more candy-cooking is needed to bling it further. But hey, themes for X themes including icon and application themes are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: European Language Fonts Installation on Fedora 2008-02-01 17:23:00 If you are looking for more font types and options for more of your document write ups, here's a quick entry on installing European Language fonts on your Fedora X system. European language fonts rpm package provides Central European fonts in compliance with the ISO8859-2 standard. European... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Midnight Commander 2008-02-01 16:36:00 A decade ago, file operations on operating systems has been really quite eeery and so technical. File deletion, management and operation under MS-DOS and IBM-DOS with black text background tends to scare newbies on doing simple file tasks. Until file manager application has been introduced. One of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Brasero 2008-01-31 08:05:00 Here's another simple Gnome CD/DVD burning application. Brasero, simple and easy to use yet another GNOME CD/DVD burning application for the Gnome desktop. Features * Supports multiple backends: cdrtools, growisofs and libburn(optional). Note: compiling against libburn is _not_enough.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: ISOs Management for Fedora 2008-01-31 07:47:00 ISOMaster is an easy to use graphical CD image editor. Isomaster allows to extract files from an ISO, add files to an ISO, and create bootable ISOs (CD/DVD) - all in a graphical user interface. It can open ISO, NRG, and some MDF files but can only save as ISO. ISOMaster Main Features a. Create... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Install Nmap with GUI FrontEnd 2008-01-31 05:41:00 With old blog entry, here's how to have a GUI front-end for port and host scanning linux tool, Nmap. Port and host scanning via nmap is commonly done from linux terminal command line or CLI. If you wish to use nmamp with your X, here's an entry to do that. As we all know, nmap is a free and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

HowTo: Create and Manage Genealogy Family Tree via Gramps 2008-01-31 05:20:00 GRAMPS is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional genealogy program, and a wiki open to all. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists. Gramps genealogy software offers easy of use and easy navigation around different tree views of your... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...