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Spotify finally comes to Linux

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Alex

Spotify the free music application for Windows and Mac has finally been officially ported to Linux, while this is only a preview build and currently unsupported it’s at least a step in the right direction and no more running the … Continue reading →

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GIMP (2.6.8) Crashing On Some Toolbox Icons – Lucid

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Alex

:~$ gimp gimp: fatal error: Failed to register GObject with DBusConnection (script-fu:3100): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error I fixed this error by removing opening Synaptic Package Manager and searching for appmenu-gtk, right click and mark for removal, once this has … Continue reading →

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HowTo: Install & Use Resynthesizer for GIMP

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Alex

Remember this Photoshop CS5 sneak peak showing off it’s latest and greatest feature Content-Aware Fill a couple months ago, well it turns out a reasonably old plug-in for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) named Resynthesizer seems to work just as great and because it is … Continue reading →

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HowTo: Swap the Window Menu Buttons Back to the Right – Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Alex

I’m not an OSX person and personally prefer my minimise, maximise and close buttons to be in that order on the right, which they are not as default on the new Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) so here’s how you can … Continue reading →

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HowTo: Simple Tesseract Usage Guide (OCR)

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Alex

Install: (Ubuntu 9.10) sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng Preparing Images for Tesseract with GIMP: Load an image with text into GIMP Image > Mode > make the image RGB or Grayscale. Tools > Color Tools > Threshold > pick a value … Continue reading →

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HowTo: Install OpenCV in Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Alex

Heres how I got OpenCV installed: First install some needed packages sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev Now you need to grab FFmpeg for the install to work svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg The svn didn’t work for me, probably something to … Continue reading →