Shape Collage – Simple software to create collage with a java application.

2010-07-31 1 min read Linux Photo

Download from <a href="http://www.shapecollage.com/download.html">here.

Very useful utility to create collage in variety of ways. Here are some screenshots to give you a idea of how this works.

Auto Key press fill forms through simulating key presses | Linux.com

2010-07-31 2 min read Bash Linux

This script can be used to repeatedly press <a class="zem_slink" title="Electronic keyboard" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_keyboard">keys on the <a class="zem_slink" title="Keyboard (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_%28computing%29">keyboard, it was used to fill out 100 odd entries on a <a class="zem_slink" title="Web page" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page">web page while testing without having to physically enter the data.

Save the code below some where like <a class="zem_slink" title="Filesystem Hierarchy Standard" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard">/usr/bin/ with what ever file name you like, set the file to be <a class="zem_slink" title="Executable" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable">executable with <a class="zem_slink" title="Chmod" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod">chmod +x /usr/bin/keyrepeat

importing outlook pst files in evolution in Fedora 13 ( Goddard)

2010-07-25 1 min read Fedora Linux

If you were using outlook and moved to some other <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/e-mail_client" title="Email client" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client">mail client then you know the pain of moving the mails from outlook mail from outlook to any other client.

If you are using evolution on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora, then you are in luck. Just install the plug-in and select the file to import as simple as that.

sudo yum install evolution-pst
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gnomecc color scheme - my favourite.

2010-07-11 1 min read Fedora

my favourite <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser">gtkrc-2 file.

Snapshot of how it looks.

17 Cool firefox tweaks.

2010-06-16 1 min read Fedora Firefox Linux

A very nice article on firefox can be found here. Though written for Ubuntu should be applicable to all distro’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 🙂

http://dmartin.org/content/things-i-can-do-linux-i-cant-do-windows

2010-06-09 9 min read Linux

<a href="http://dmartin.org/content/things-i-can-do-linux-i-cant-do-windows" target="_blank">Here’s a nice article on Windows vs Linux. I have been reading on these for quite some time now, but this one really sums it up all very well. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Since I often hear from friends and people on the Internet about things they can’t do in Linux that they could on Windows, I thought I’d write up a list of things I can do in Linux that I can’t do in Windows.

Linux Community\’s unoffical mascot taken by Microsoft

2010-06-04 3 min read Linux

Ok, this is mostly a Linux advocacy and I kind of completely agree with <a href="http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/11/congrats-linux-community-youve-been.html" target="_blank">this.

Here’s the main text, but dont forget to go to the page to read the comments( quite good and interesting thoughts by lot of people).

OK group…let’s see a show of hands…

How many people believe that the current way Linux markets itself is sufficient? That would be the combination of apathy, inertia and a smattering of guerrilla marketing.