Liquid rescale and remove objects from the images.

Ever wanted to remove some unwanted object from an image. Wonder how many thinkgs you have to do, clone and delete and what not:)

There is a simpler way, just paint it in foreground color. Does that sound ridiculous, not any more with Liquid Rescale. First install the plugin for liquid rescale for gimp.

yum install gimp-lqr-plugin

Now, just follow simple instructions below:

1. in the menu, choose Layer and then Liquid Rescale
2. click on the New button in the Discard features section on the right: a new layer will be created
3. put the plugin window on one side of the screen without closing it, and go back to work on the gimp main windows
4. choose the paint tool and paint over the area you wish to remove
5. go back to the plugin window
6. click the Refresh button at the bottom: you should see your discard mask appear in the preview
7. optionally, in the Mode box on the left choose Lqr + scale back or Lqr + Lqr back
8. click the Auto size button at the bottom of the Discard features section (optionally choose the scaling direction in the box at the side of the button before clicking it).
9. click OK

Could it get any simpler.

Linux Advocacy and cool things to do with Linux.

I have heard a lot of Linux advocacy and read probably a couple of artilcles also on them but they lack one thing : the end user perspective. Linux is great no doubt, but there are far too many things to confuse people at all levels. For example, if you do a google search for which distro is good for me, you will find different sites giving you different results. So, whats my point?

recursively add directory and files to cvs from Linux.

Go to the directory which you want to add to cvs and execute the following:

cvs login

find . -type d -exec cvs add {} \;

find . -type f -exec cvs add {} \;

cvs commit

That was simple 🙂

fotowall – create cool looking wallpapers (collage) on Linux

Description of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software:

FotoWall is a creative tool that allows you to layout your photos or pictures in a personal way. You can add pictures, then resize, move, change colors, text, shadows, etc..

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/screenshot_001.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1499" title="Fotowall - start" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot_001-300x178.jpg" alt="Fotowall - start" width="300" height="178" />

Generate web thumbnails page (gallery) for free with convert command on linux

Here&#8217;s something for guys who want to generate html file with thumbnails of photos. I know sometimes it really gets messy. So sometime back I had found a search on the net for the same and found a script written by Samuel Hocevar.  Sorry I do not seem to have the link to the page, but since the script is GPL and name of the author is there in the script, I can put it for download from my web-blog also. So here is the script <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/genthumb.sh">genthumb

Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft

Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft Whilst it&#8217;s not okay in Microsoft&#8217;s eyes for Google to install a plugin into Internet Explorer, increasing the potential surface area of attack, when Microsoft do it to Firefox, it&#8217;s a different matter. Now a security hole has been found in a plugin that Microsoft have been silently installing into Firefox.

URL: <a href="http://osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft">http://osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft

Afraid Dynamic DNS client in Fedora with Email indicating the changed to original IP.

If you have your domain in the Dynamic DNS located at : <a href="http://freedns.afraid.org">Freedns then you know how difficult it is to get the Dynamic DNS client to work with Fedora. Not that it does not work, but you need to configure it properly and there are lot of parameters. But not any more. Now you can install the afraid Dynamic DNS client and just put your Account Hash in the config file and you are ready with the setup to update the DNS entry whenever your IP changes. So lets get started: