15 (More) Awesome Conky Configurations

15 (More) Awesome <a class="zem_slink" title="Conky (software)" rel="homepage" href="http://conky.sourceforge.net/">Conky Configurations You may have already seen our list of awesome Conky scripts or configurations, and perhaps applied or used some of them on your own <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kernel.org/">Linux desktop. Since that collection was quiet popular, I decided to scour the web once again to gather more Conky scripts that I could share with all of you. Now, here is another list of some of the most excellent and unique conky configurations that you could freely use. Enjoy!

Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2472" title="Eye of Gnome Viewer with exif data" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/eog-300x218.jpg" alt="Eye of Gnome Viewer with exif data" width="300" height="218" />

Today we will look at how a simple viewer like <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG of Gnome can help you learn some basic things about Photography.

To begin with, we will open eog and then go to :

Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins

and enable

<a class="zem_slink" title="Exchangeable image file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format">Exif Display

Making your subjects more prominent and stand out in the photos with gimp.

Lets first take a picture that we want to modify. We have done the corrections in the photo that are required like the curves, <a class="zem_slink" title="Colorfulness" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorfulness">saturation and others. So, here is the photo after the modification. Now we will make the modification to make photo de-saturated other than the subject of interest.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018.jpg"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018.jpg" alt="DSC_0018" />

Okay, now fire up gimp and open the <a class="zem_slink" title="Image" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image">image in gimp.Once the image is open, on the left bottom of the image, you will see a square. Click on the square and the whole image will become red. Now, select eraser tool and erase the color from the subject of interest.

web page error\’d – Name cannot be less that 5 characters :)

If you have noticed, I have put a new <a class="zem_slink" title="Toolbar" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolbar">tool-bar in the bottom. The tool-bar is delivered from the wibiya cdn and while registering for the service, I got the below error 🙂

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2446" title="wibiya error'd" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wibiya-300x162.png" alt="wibiya error'd" width="300" height="162" />

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OpenID for non-SuperUsers

Based on the results of my Unobtrusive <a class="zem_slink" title="OpenID Foundation" rel="homepage" href="http://openid.net">OpenID post, it is quite evident that there is a lot of partial <a class="zem_slink" title="Knowledge" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge">knowledge about OpenID out there. While my knowledge on the subject is far from complete, this post is my attempt to share what I have learned with others.

The target audience for the bulk of this post is people who are capable of adding autodiscovery links to their blog templates, may be able to install a small <a class="zem_slink" title="PHP" rel="homepage" href="http://www.php.net/">PHP script and/or know what a <a class="zem_slink" title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol">HTTP <a class="zem_slink" title="List of HTTP headers" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers">header is.

Download Free calendar for September 2010

Here is something that I got my hands dirty on just now 🙂

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2499" title="Calendar September 2010" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/calSep10-300x199.jpg" alt="Calendar September 2010" width="300" height="199" />

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/calSep10.jpg">Download link.

Hope you like it.

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Fedora Linux – Display information about users currently logged on – whowatch

Here is description of program/utility to display the currently logged in user in a Linux box (tried on Fedora 13 Goddard):

Whowatch is an interactive console utility that displays informations about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real time. Besides standard information (login, tty, host, user&#8217;s process) you can see type of login (ie. ssh, telnet). You can also see selected user&#8217;s processes tree or all system processes tree.  In the process tree mode there is ability to send INT or KILL signal to selected process.

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