Here is a nice link to web application that lets you remove the unwanted background. Just head over to the side, follow the simple instructions of marking the background and the subject and you are done.
Pretty good results you will get here, you may need to do a little work on the results but otherwise pretty good results.
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Don’t start banging me for this, but I had to test something on Windows and thus found out this. I f you need to debug or test something on IE8 on Windows, then you can simply press “F12” and this will bring up the developer tools… could be useful to you, sometime if you are stuck with testing something on IE on windows 🙂
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In Ubuntu, if you do not like all the information that comes when you do a remote login, then you just need to do this:
touch ~/.hushlogin
Have spent some time today to speed up the blog today and made some improvements.
Today I finally managed to get some time to update my site and change theme. I also made some changes that should decrease the page loading time. Have updated the “Sitemap” page and also the contact me page. There are couple of other changes that should make your experience a lot more better.
There are times when you would want to have a local search engine capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution.
You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions.
download omega from http:// xapian.org/download
yum install xapian libuuid-devel
And then make and install omega and for this you can follow the instructions.
Create index using command omindex
and then you can use quest or search.py to search or you can setup the cgi way so that you can use local browser to search.
LibreOffice 3.5 was released few days back with loads of features and improvements. Most bragged about feature should be capability to read visio diagrams. You can read the full list of features here. And here are some interesting features:
Here you can find the cream editor. This is basically vim editor with lots of customizations thus making it simpler for the users to use the editor directly.
This version already has the bash and perl support plugins and thus you can start using them as IDE without the need to add any plugins. It has a simple and advanced mode. In the simple mode you need not worry about all the modes of the vi/vim editor. How cool is that 🙂
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