Adobe Creative Suite™ reigns supreme as the software of choice for most creative professionals and novices alike- albeit not without a challenge. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation) is arguably the most…
5 Great Plugins for GIMP
Add CSS stitched border effect
Add a stitched border to a div in CSS: .stitched { padding: 20px; margin: 10px; background: #6fa348; color: #fff; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; border: 2px dashed #fff; border-radius:…
Augmented reality is approaching
Augmented reality is a technology being furiously developed by tech giants such as Facebook. How about a pair of glasses which allows you to “project” a screen anywhere and interact…
Remove password from PDF Ubuntu
A neat little utility to remove the password from a PDF is qpdf. To get started install qpdf sudo apt-get install qpdf Remove the password using the following command qpdf –password=YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE…
SSH login without password (key pair authentication)
Passwordless login via SSH is especially useful in automated backup scripts. In this tutorial Host A refers to the computer from which (source) you want to login, and Host B refers…
Save output of "ls" or other command to shell variable
It is very useful to be able to store the output of a command to a shell variable for use in a script. This can be achieved as follows: shellVariableName=$(COMMAND)…
List contents of zip / tar.gz / tar.bz2
It is quite useful to view the contents of a zip, tar.gz or tar.bz2 file without extracting the file from the terminal. View contents of a zip file unzip -l…
Access Docker container volume from filesystem
I've recently been playing around with the Ghost blogging platform and wanted to see how well the docker image worked. The default theme (Casper) looks great and certainly takes simplicity…
External hard drive format for Windows and Mac
A common problem encountered is the ability to read and write to a hard drive on both Windows and Mac operating systems. External hard drive on used on Windows machines…
How to Download Liquid Rescale for Ubuntu
The plugin is included in Debian and in Ubuntu, in the package “gimp-plugin-registry”, which also includes some other great plugins. To get started, open your terminal with: Ctrl+Alt+T Then run…
