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You`ll find some gtk, metacity, windowblinds themes, tips and tutorials aboput linux here soon.

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Hi,
im showing you here how to update/install  imagemagick on ubuntu /mint 14.04 and also 14.10.
be sure to have the apt sources list enabled too, well most experienced usrers wuill have done that.

open a terminal and paste/ run the following lines in the right order as written here :

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cd ~

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall && apt-get build-dep imagemagick -y

wget http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz

tar xzvf ImageMagick.tar.gz

cd  ImageMagick*/

sudo ./configure –prefix=/usr && sudo  make

sudo checkinstall

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Enjoy it !

Imagemagick is a powerful image processing library with two wonderful tools convert and mogrify.
You can do nearly every image conversation with it p.ex adaptive image resizing, complex image blurring, edge detection merge or split images remove image background get pixels in a list with the color values etc etc.

It is worth testing  it if you don `t know what imagemagick is. There are also windows binarys of imagemagick on several sites.

The newer versions does include some features that are not available on the standard Ubuntu os ( even on utopic) , so i thought i might write a tutorial how to update it on a forum that needs visitors.

Thx for reading
bluedxca93

Hi,

Some time ago i did try to write a program that can remove checkerboard patterns and ended up in writing a grafx2 filter:

Method 1 : http://pastebin.com/72ECfysR
Method 2 : http://pastebin.com/UBJuh38x

Both Methods do remove chess pattern. However the result will differ. I can’t say which method is better, it depends on the image size the art of the image and other things.

WARNING: It won’t work on Black/White images very well. Those images would require an entire different algorithm logic. Processing p.ex 640×480 16 color images may still take some time but i think that black and white images would take much more time. ( The filter logic would be really complex for 2 color images.).

The algorithm works really well :

Why i did share this, well perhaps some of you have older computer graphics that are checkerboarded , a thing that isnt necessary nowadays.

regards bluedxca93

Some of you might have installed mint qiana or have a newer Version of cinnamon and want to save some settings as enabled applets list, panel heigth , enabled theme heigth and window manager and icon theme.

Thats relatively easy to do if you don`t trust any tweak tools, but this scripts:

#!/bin/bash
get_settingscript () {
echo '#''!''/'bin/bash
echo ""
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon.theme name "`gsettings get org.cinnamon.theme name`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface icon-theme "`gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.interface icon-theme`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme "`gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme "`gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon next-applet-id "`gsettings get org.cinnamon next-applet-id`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon enabled-applets '"'"`gsettings get org.cinnamon enabled-applets`"'"'
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon panel-bottom-height "`gsettings get org.cinnamon panel-bottom-height`"
echo gsettings set org.cinnamon panel-resizable "`gsettings get org.cinnamon panel-resizable`"
}

if [ ! -f cinnamon-settings-restore.sh ]
then
get_settingscript > cinnamon-settings-restore.sh; chmod a+x cinnamon-settings-restore.sh
else
echo backup script does exist already - move it to a safer place and or execute it
exit
fi

it won`t backup your themes , applet configuration etc. but save their names in a script that you can easily reapply.
This might also be interesting to get the „correct“ etc/gconf .override for remastering/remixing/rebuilding your own Linux Mint based distro .

Some of the script lines do also work under unity if you replace cinnamon with gnome.
Hope it helps some people who are changing their Linux Mnt configuration very often.

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by Google, released on April 24, 2012,which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing. Files shared publicly on Google Drive can be searched with web search engines. As of October 2014, Google Drive had 240 million monthly active users.
from wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Drive

A file hosted on Google Drive and that is a normal document of type none has a shared link that looks like this if you want to share it :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/FILE_ID/edit?usp=sharing

When you access this link, it will show the file and or its contetn if its a zip up in the browser .
However there is a easy method to download these files directly:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID

All you have to do is to fuill in the FILE_ID of the original URL and place it in the modified URL. at the right place.

Why i did write this, well i schared documents with some people and they were unable to download simple zip files.
So im now writing this to help them. Some simply don; t get the arrows and points you need to click on to downlad a viewable file form google drive. Its not that easy if you have no time or don`t know how to do it.

regards bluedxca93