Curt Sahd

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…