Monthly Archives: April 2010

HowTo: Fix Jumping/Skipping Sound in Spotify under Wine – Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Alex

The sound in Spotify was jumping or skipping much like a scratched disk would. After a little investigation I found a couple of ways to fix it with people saying one worked but the other didn’t for them. (Solution 2 … 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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