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HowTo: Install & Use Resynthesizer for GIMP
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
HowTo: Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)
BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking … Continue reading
HowTo: Install BURG (The Beautiful GRUB Replacement)
BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking … Continue reading
HowTo: Run .jar files in Ubuntu
To run a JAR file from the command line in ubuntu using the following command: java -jar filename.jar Otherwise it is also possible to enable double clicking to run jar files too by the following simple steps: Find the .jar … Continue reading
HowTo Fix: The file ‘/path/file.exe’ is not marked as executable.
The file ‘/path/file.exe’ is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit. While re-installing Spotify on my Desktop I came … Continue reading
HowTo Fix: “There is a problem with your sound card. Spotify can’t play music.” (Wine)
Quite a few times I have encountered this problem, which I think is caused when the soundcard was recently used by another program and might still be busy but it means Spotify can’t play music, so a quick fix for … Continue reading
HowTo: Stop Ubuntu Checking For Automatic Updates
At work I can’t afford to have my Ubuntu system update and possibly wipe out some important libraries I need, and I get pretty tired of closing the Update Manager every time it decides I need to update so here’s … Continue reading
HowTo: Fix “An error occurred while mounting” – Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)
An error occurred while mounting /dev/bus/usb (and/or) An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery If you are seeing this error on boot an easy way to get rid: sudo gedit /etc/fstab … Continue reading


