Archive for the 'How-To' Category

5th November Comments

How to Crimp Your Own Ethernet Cables

Posted on November 5th, 2009 at 5:12 am

 
It isn’t very difficult to crimp your own CAT5 cabling. You can repair and re-use old cable, cut cable to exact lengths, and save money. Aaron Weiss shows how, with lots of good pictures.
Okay now there is no excuse for you to make your own, Baldy

How to Crimp Your Own Ethernet Cables

4th November Comments

Geotagging Photos with digiKam

Posted on November 4th, 2009 at 5:00 am

 
Even if your camera doesn’t support geotagging, you can easily add geographical coordinates to your photos using digiKam.
Well I’ll be darned, this is a new trick for me and a great read for those that wish they could geo-tag their vacation pics or that of the family reunion, Baldy.

Geotagging Photos with digiKam

23rd October Comments

Simple KDE Trick #2: using remote desktops with avahi, krfb and krdc (with video)

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 at 5:27 am

 
Most people nowadays have more than one computer. Often, you are using one, and would like to do something in another. In this video, I will explain how trivial it is to do that without leaving your seat in a modern Linux using KDE.
Darn and after reading this you are going to say, “That’s [...]

30th September Comments

Bash Script To Get Weather Forecasts For Your Zip Code

Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 6:38 am

Today’s Linux/Unix bash shell script is probably not the last follow up to the growing stable of scripts we’ve written to mine the knowledge on tap online. Today’s info is grabbed from WeatherBug.com. If you missed any of the others scripts we’ve jammed out, you can still find them in our older bash script posts [...]

26th September Comments

Do-it-yourself Konqueror commands

Posted on September 26th, 2008 at 4:39 am

 
KDE’s Konqueror is as multifunctional as a Swiss Army knife. It works as both a file manager and a Web browser, and you can enhance it even further by adding new commands to its repertoire by means of service menus. The new commands appear in Konqueror’s context menu when you right-click a file. Here’s how [...]

3rd July Comments

Create Thumbnails in Linux

Posted on July 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 am

Well as if there are not enough how-to’s out there here comes another one folks. I was asked the other day how can I make thumbnails in Linux. Well binky here is the fast way to start. You can change the .png to .jpg or what ever it is that you need and it is [...]

21st May Comments

Customize Vista Open/Save Shortcuts

Posted on May 21st, 2008 at 4:50 am

Whenever you open or save a file in Windows Vista, you typically get the standard dialog box which has shortcut locations on the left side. You can easily customize these locations to add or remove locations to best suit your needs. Here is how:
1. Open a dialog box (either a Save As [...]

7th May Comments

10 dumb things users do that can mess up their computers

Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Users find plenty of ways to run into trouble, from gunking up their system with shareware to leaving it exposed to attackers to forgetting about using surge protectors. Share this list with your own users so they can sidestep preventable problems like these.
Technology may be changing at a lightning-fast pace, but one thing remains constant: [...]

19th April Comments

Backup Your Flickr Photos With Flickrfs

Posted on April 19th, 2008 at 6:19 am

What’s Flickr doing to you now?
Pondering a possible purchase at the hands of Microsoft? Threatening to add more features like support 90-second video clips? Withholding those free doughnuts you were promised?
Sounds like now might be a good time to make a backup of you Flickr images. Actually, even without the paranoia of a Microsoft takeover [...]

28th March Comments

Creating a Home Inventory with F-Spot (video)

Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 5:08 am

 
With fires, thefts, and natural disasters it is a good idea to have a home inventory. In this video I am going to show you how to inventory your house using a digital camera and F-Spot on a Linux desktop.
 

Creating a Home Inventory with F-Spot (video)