Using mtpaint of Fedora to modify your images and make them look different.

2010-07-31 3 min read Fedora Photo

Here is the description of mtpaint :

mtPaint is a simple painting program designed for creating icons
and pixel-based artwork. It can edit indexed palette or 24 bit <a class="zem_slink" title="RGB color model" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model">RGB
images and offers basic painting and palette manipulation tools.
Its main <a class="zem_slink" title="File format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format">file format is <a class="zem_slink" title="Portable Network Graphics" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics">PNG, although it can also handle <a class="zem_slink" title="JPEG" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG">JPEG, <a class="zem_slink" title="Graphics Interchange Format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format">GIF,
TIFF, <a class="zem_slink" title="BMP file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format">BMP, <a class="zem_slink" title="X PixMap" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap">XPM, and <a class="zem_slink" title="X BitMap" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_BitMap">XBM files.
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Shape Collage – Simple software to create collage with a java application.

2010-07-31 1 min read Linux Photo

Download from <a href="http://www.shapecollage.com/download.html">here.

Very useful utility to create collage in variety of ways. Here are some screenshots to give you a idea of how this works.

Auto Key press fill forms through simulating key presses | Linux.com

2010-07-31 2 min read Bash Linux

This script can be used to repeatedly press <a class="zem_slink" title="Electronic keyboard" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_keyboard">keys on the <a class="zem_slink" title="Keyboard (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_%28computing%29">keyboard, it was used to fill out 100 odd entries on a <a class="zem_slink" title="Web page" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page">web page while testing without having to physically enter the data.

Save the code below some where like <a class="zem_slink" title="Filesystem Hierarchy Standard" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard">/usr/bin/ with what ever file name you like, set the file to be <a class="zem_slink" title="Executable" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable">executable with <a class="zem_slink" title="Chmod" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod">chmod +x /usr/bin/keyrepeat

Adding a sub-menu in the wordpress admin menu :)

2010-07-29 2 min read Wordpress

For the impatient ones, first the code:
(in wp-admin folder, open the file menu.php) and locate the code:

$submenu[’edit.php’][10] = array( _x(’Add New’, ’post’), ’edit_posts’, ’post-new.php’ );

and add the below:

$submenu[’edit.php’][7] = array( _x(’Pending’, ’post’), ’edit_posts’, ’edit.php?post_status=pending&post_type=post’ );

And now the explanation and why do you need this 🙂

Problem:

There is no direct mechanism to access the pending posts in WP admin. I generally post through email and mark them as pending. So, whenever I go to my admin POSTs page, I will look through the list of pending items and post them as and when required. For this, when I am done with changes in one item, I need to either modify the address bar or need to go to posts link and then click the Pending items.

SMS from my site - free worldwide.

2010-07-27 1 min read Uncategorized

Thanks to Free widget, now you can send worldwide free SMS from the widgets in my blog.

Hope it helps you.

Find who is using my network – top for network utilization

2010-07-27 1 min read Fedora Linux

Ok here is something that I have been looking for something. Now that I have conky installed, so I can see the bandwidth usage on my desktop but was wondering for sometimes, where actually so much is being used. So did some quick search to see if I can get that info and did not have to go too far 🙂

There is s utility called iftop in the Fedora repo and at the <a href="http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/" target="_blank">URL. Oh and how to use it, just type sudo iftop or if you have multiple network interface then you can do ”iftop -f ”. Thats pretty simple and cool.

Over 50 Free, Must-Have Open Source Resources

2010-07-27 0 min read Linux

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