The Linux tee command is a way to write the standard output to a file. Or, to quote from the man page documentation,
tee – read from standard input and write to standard output and files
This is a little different from redirecting output to a file. Continue reading
I’ve shown previously how to fade a single edge of an image with GIMP. That’s a cool effect, but sometimes you want to fade all of the edges of an image. So today I’m going to show you how to fade all of the edges of an image. Continue reading
I spent a few hours this past weekend working on some performance optimization for the site. This site is run on the WordPress blogging software which has tons of great plugins available to add functionality. The downside to this is that most plugins tend to slow the website performance slightly. The exceptions to this are the plugins that are written specifically to speed up WordPress site performance. Continue reading
avast! 5.0 is a free antivirus program available for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. It is a fairly full featured virus scanner similar to AVG free. Some of its key features are:
If you’re using the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver in Ubuntu Linux, your system has the ability to rotate the video display. Why would you want to do this? Well, I have an HP w2207 wide screen monitor that can rotate into portrait mode. This can be handy for editing long documents or working with portrait images in the GIMP. Continue reading