Archive October, 2007

GIMP tricks: Liquid rescaling by example

[ Monday, 29 October 2007, Bastion ]

Have you ever taken a picture which would be just great only if you could remove that strange unwanted object that showed up in the middle of nowhere and now kills the whole effect? Or perhaps you just want to get rid of your ex-girlfriend and keep the photo with a fantastic landscape alone? Whatever your secret plans are, GIMP Liquid rescale plugin is there for you. Just use it!

Compare PCLinuxOS with any distribution!

[ Sunday, 28 October 2007, michuk ]

We’re glad to inform that PCLinuxOS — a popular Linux flavor — found its place to the PolishLinux distribution comparator. This is mainly thanks to our wiki contributors who prepared a detailed description of this distro at PolishLinux wiki.
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Archlinux tools: Pacman

[ Friday, 26 October 2007, mikrobart ]

We are starting a short series of articles aiming to describe the key administration tools and packages used in Archlinux distribution. Today we are taking a closer look at Pacman — the Arch’s package manager of choice.
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Ripping and Encoding Audio Files in Linux

[ Monday, 22 October 2007, qpalzm ]

Listening to the music played back from original audio CDs on a home computer creates clear discomfort — the CD drive is being blocked and the CDs have to be changed again and again (unless you have a home jukebox). Now it’s time we learn to rip (grab) our own audio collection and save it [...]

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon: Critical review

[ Thursday, 18 October 2007, michuk ]

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has been released today. In short: it did not disappoint me. The new Ubuntu is more polished, more professional and in general, better than the previous one, which was already a great OS. Minor glitches? Present, as always.

SSH with Putty

[ Tuesday, 16 October 2007, goudacaster ]

One of my favourite tools (that I use almost everyday) is PuTTY. I use it both on Windows (very useful because Windows has no SSH client) and on Linux. It is a program that enables SSH connections using a graphical interface. It also allows for the establishment of SSH tunnels as well as omitting some [...]

KDE 4 Preview [rev 723381]

[ Friday, 12 October 2007, Bastion ]

KDE 4 is coming. It’s starting to look and behave in a mature enough manner to use it on a normal desktop. This article is a little introduction as to what you should expect from the brand new KDE that is due out later this year.
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GIMP tricks: Teeth whitening

[ Thursday, 11 October 2007, titter ]

Here is another article of our “GIMP tricks” series. This time you are going to learn a simple trick: how to make your teeth look really white on a photograph. By the way, perhaps it’s the right time to visit a dentist?
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