This post is mostly just a reminder to myself, but it may be useful to others. I was recently asked to convert a .ppt, or Powerpoint slideshow document, into a three slides per page, horizontally centered, one on top of another, with frames around each slide. Powerpoint itself offers several printing options, including a 2n [...]
I haven’t done a tech tip in a while, but here’s a nice, simple one which I am finding very useful. Pastebins are a really useful way to share snippets of text. However it’s sometimes a bit cumbersome to have to open a browser window, type in the URL, paste it in, click submit, then [...]
Amarok can probably be called one of Linux’s flagship programs. However since the upgrade from Amarok 1 to Amarok 2 there have been quite a number of controversial changes. One of these changes is that Amarok switched from an SQLite database to a MySQL database to store song information, however whether or not this was [...]
Other very useful tip I picked up when doing video manipulation the other day that deserves its own post is reencoding any video so that it will work on a vanilla Windows Media Player (without any other codecs added). Windows Media Player is probably the most stubborn, pathetic video player the software world has ever [...]
I was recently doing some video editing work where the workflow was something like this: film in portrait, transfer to computer, rotate videos by 90 degrees, sequence together several videos, strip out background noise from entire video. Filming was done with a camera, sequencing was done by Kdenlive (I’ve previously only had experience with Blender’s [...]
More for archival purposes than anything, today I wanted to copy some songs out of my serious mess of a music "collection" onto my microSD card. I didn’t want to have to choose and I haven’t rated my songs so that wouldn’t help. Instead I wanted a random selection of songs. I’m not a bashmaster [...]
Well folks, here’s another quick tech tip that I use once in a while. How do you rip only the audio from an .FLV file? .FLV files, or Flash Video files are the format used in browser-embedded videos, common on video-sharing sites such as YouTube or Vimeo (and Eadrax!) For whatever reason if you have [...]
It seems as though I’m coming up with a lot of little series here on my blog. Such existing examples include “How to actually use your computer”, “How to make a website”, and “Rapid fire”. I’ve decided to start yet another one. This one, as you’ve probably guessed from the title, is called “Tech Tips”. [...]
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