Change pidgin status from the command line

$ purple-remote "setstatus?status=away&message=AFK" Thanks for the comment oshazard, i wasn’t aware of purple-remote existence.

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Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages

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Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages Tech Source From Bohol: &#8221;Most of these languages are graphics-based that makes them fun and attractive for young ones or even for adults who are absolute beginner in programming. So enjoy and teach your kids programming with these free programming languages.&#8221;

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wmctrl – window control manager

What is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wmctrl" title="Wmctrl" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmctrl">wmctrl?

wmctrl  is  a  command that can be used to interact with an X Window manager that is compatible with the EWMH/NetWM specification.  wmctrl can query the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/window_manager" title="Window manager" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager">window manager for information, and it can request that certain window management actions be taken.

Periodically download and use as wallpaper from Flickr in Fedora using Webilder.

Ever wanted to have wallpaper downloaded from Flickr directly using the tags and then apply them as wallpaper, then the way to go is download Webilder <a href="http://www.webilder.org/static/downloads/Webilder-0.6.3.tar.gz">here. Just do the regular stuff to install the same.

tar xvfz

cd

./configure

make

sudo make install

And then right click on the gnome panel and add the widget. Configure the tags to download and the duration to change the wallpaper and enjoy.

17 Cool firefox tweaks.

A very nice article on firefox can be found here. Though written for Ubuntu should be applicable to all distro&#8217;s.

<a href="http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/07/17-cool-firefox-aboutconfig-tricks.html">http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/07/17-cool-firefox-aboutconfig-tricks.html

Most of it was done in my machine even before I read the article but good to see all of them together 🙂

List of commands you use most often

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$ history | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head > /tmp/cmds | gnuplot -persist <(echo 'plot "/tmp/cmds" using 1:xticlabels(2) with boxes') Plot your most used commands with gnuplot.

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How To Add A Cool Tattoo To Your Photo in Photoshop

Ever thought about having a cool tattoo but not sure what it will look like?

We’re lucky to be Photoshop friendly, unlike <a class="zem_slink" title="Lil Wayne" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1211443/">Lil Wayne (I’d put him in Top Ten Ugliest Tats Ever list).  And history has lots of examples of “unfortunate” tattoos. Like Johnny Depp’s “Winona Forever” tattoo. He had to change it to “Wino Forever” after their break-up. Or like the Game’s famous “star” tat on his face – he had a teardrop before, then changed to a star and now he has an “LA” I guess. Looks so weird.