If you’ve ever been a KDE user, you are probably familiar with the Amarok music player. Perhaps you prefer GNOME over KDE but you really prefer Amarok over the music players normally offered in GNOME. You could always go ahead and install Amarok, but it brings along a ton of KDE dependencies. Good news! There …
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Today I’m going to show you how to use the head and tail commands to view portions of text files. There are, of course, other commands that can be used to view text files. The cat command can be useful for viewing small text files while more and less can be good for larger files. …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: head And tailAs smart phones are becoming more pervasive, 2D bar codes are starting to appear all over the place. The QR Code format is one of the most commonly used styles of these matrix bar codes. These QR Codes often contain a URL to send a smart phone user to a particular web site, but all …
Continue reading Create Your Own QR Codes on LinuxI spent some time back in December compiling videos of my daughter for a family DVD. One of the things I wanted to do was to add a small caption to each video clip to document the date of the recording. I ended up using Avidemux and the subtitle video filter to add the captions …
Continue reading Adding Video Captions With AvidemuxUbuntu One is a file synchronization service that allows you to share files among multiple computers. You place files into your Ubuntu One folder and they get synch’d with your account on the web. Files can also be shared with other Ubuntu One users as well and if you publish them they can be shared …
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