I receive a lot of emails with photos attached that have been taken in a portrait orientation. Most modern digital cameras and smart phones have orientation sensors that tell the camera if it’s been turned on end. When this happens, rather than actually rotate the picture, the camera sets a flag in the image’s EXIF …
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A while back I purchased a nice LG Smart TV for my living room. Besides having the standard Smart TV applications like internet browsing and NetFlix, my TV can stream media from my PC either through a DLNA server or through LG’s Media Link. In order to use the Media Link, you must install the …
Continue reading Fix The Shutdown/Reboot Issue With Multiple Users on UbuntuSome MP3 encoders fail to create the proper file headers when encoding variable bit rate MP3 files. When that happens, the song length displayed will often be be incorrect when playing the song back. One of the ways this can be handled is by adding a Xing header to the MP3 file. One tool that’s …
Continue reading Fixing Variable Bit Rate MP3’s With vbrfixIf you’ve been using Linux for a while, you may be familiar with the terminal command, date. The date command will display the current date and time to the terminal. On my system, the default output of date looks like this:
Continue reading Creating A Terminal Window ClockI recently got a new TV that allows me to stream audio and video from my computer to the TV. I tend to archive music from CD’s I’ve purchased in FLAC format. Unfortunately, FLAC is not one of the formats supported by my TV. I decided to write a little script to convert my music …
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