Posts Tagged Linux

My Twitter Client Search – Ended

Okay, so as you may already know I’m a big fan of any software solution that does what I need in a portable and platform agnostic way, particularly if it does it “in the cloud“. What you may not know, is that I’m addicted to Twitter and I’ve been going through desktop based Twitter clients [...]

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Me and my iPhone

Well, I’m not exactly what you’d call an early adopter, and I’ve only recently rediscovered a place in my heart for Apple based computing devices. That said, there was a lot of internal debate an struggle when it came time for me to upgrade from my Cingular 8525 HTC/Phone/PDA device. Initially, I was convinced that [...]

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Uploading to Flickr from Picasa on Linux

When I performed my search for the perfect photo sharing solution, I fell in love with the Picasa desktop application. I even discovered that there is a linux version. However, as you’d likely expect, it didn’t really play nice as far as uploading photos to any photo sharing site other than Google’s Picasa Web Albums. [...]

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My First 64bit PC

Time for the second installment of my worklog for my PC Upgrade. Well, I actually received all the bits from UPS Monday (is it Thursday already? sheesh). I actually assembled the thing Monday afternoon/evening, and have been slowly installing software and getting it up to speed. For the curious, and so I can brag a [...]

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Tools for updating an online image gallery

Not long ago I shared my bash script for creating thumbnails and manageable sized “big” images for an image gallery, or other image store. Well, today I had to update an existing gallery with a pretty significant number of new images. It occurred to me that I’d like to only convert new images rather than [...]

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Image thumbnail generating script

I have often wished that I could easily convert several images to a smaller size simultaneously. This is useful for batch resizing images for thumbnails, galleries, or use on the web. On a linux system with imageMagick installed, you can use the script at the end of this post to batch convert the images. I [...]

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