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Backup Your Flickr Photos With Flickrfs

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

What’s Flickr doing to you now?
Pondering a possible purchase at the hands of Microsoft? Threatening to add more features like support 90-second video clips? Withholding those free doughnuts you were promised?
Sounds like now might be a good time to make a backup of you Flickr images. Actually, even without the paranoia of a Microsoft takeover [...]

Creating a Home Inventory with F-Spot (video)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

 
With fires, thefts, and natural disasters it is a good idea to have a home inventory. In this video I am going to show you how to inventory your house using a digital camera and F-Spot on a Linux desktop.
 

Creating a Home Inventory with F-Spot (video)
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End-to-end video podcast production with Kino and FFmpeg

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Producing a video podcast entirely on Linux is not only possible but fairly easy to do. This article outlines the steps you can take to make a video podcast entirely on Linux, as I do.
Creating a podcast takes three steps:
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Tutorial: Webcams in Linux, Part 1

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

 
Webcams are everywhere these days: they’re standard on a lot of laptops, LCD monitors are starting to incorporate them, and decent standalone USB webcams can be had for less than $40. In this two-part series we’ll set up a Webcam on Linux, and then use it to perform a number of amazing and fun tasks. [...]

Five must-have apps for a new Linux install

Monday, February 18th, 2008

 
I tend to hammer my Ubuntu laptop. Running a website like Tectonic means I am constantly installing new applications to try them out. Many of which I later have to remove or lie forgotten on the hard disk until I start to wonder where the +40GB of free hard disk space went to. And when [...]

Design better Web pages with Firefox extensions

Monday, February 18th, 2008

 
If you’ve ever tried to create or edit a Web page, you know that getting the little details just right can sometimes take a long time. Here are a few Firefox extensions you can add to your toolbox that will help you measure images, align objects on your page, and capture colors quickly and easily. [...]

Five fun ways to use a Linux webcam

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

 
So you just set up a Linux-compatible webcam. You’ve tested it with Kopete, and you can send images on MSN and Yahoo! Now what? Here are some fun things you can try.
Finally some more uses for webcams outside of porn shots, not that,that is bad but a couple of these sound like fun, Baldy

Five [...]

Technology: SSH 101: Secure Shell Basics and X11 Forwarding

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Here is a great article and how-to and SSH and Forwarding and since a couple of folks have asked about both I thought I could kill two birds at the same time. Here is the opening from the website;
SSH, or the Secure SHell, is a powerful unix tool that allows you to securely connect to [...]

A dummies introduction to GNU Screen

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

 
With graphical user interfaces becoming more and more friendly and easy to use, new users of GNU/Linux and the BSDs can now get their daily work done without having to tinker around (very often) with a terminal. However, many users don’t like to use a GUI for every task, and find that they necessarily need [...]

Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Here ya go folks maybe the most complete collection of Linux cheat sheets on the web. I am sure that you will find one or two that you have not seen yet.
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