A quick guide for getting pyrobot running in Ubuntu, I’ve managed to get it running on 32bit and 64bit Ubuntu (10.10) so follow the guide accordingly to whichever architecture you’re using (64bit is about half way down the post). 32-bit 1. Download this file, or copy the below into a file and save it...
Read more →With the latest update of Android “Froyo”, it’s now possible to take screenshots/screen captures without the need to be plugged into a computer, mess around with the Android SDK or Root your phone. You are easily able to take screenshots of the home screen and while in any app. I have only been able...
Read more →:~$ 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 been done it should begin to work again.
Read more →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 what it is, it’s free and open-source. Installing on Ubuntu 9.10/10.04 install: sudo apt-get...
Read more →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 swap them back to their rightful place (pun intended). This can be done either...
Read more →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 which best shows the text Image > Mode > Indexed > choose 1-bit &...
Read more →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 do with the proxy I’m under at Uni so I had to grab the...
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