Update/install imagemagick

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 Read More

Remove checkerboard patterns from a 16 color image using grafx2

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, Read More

Backup your Mint qiana theme settings

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 Read More

Howto download files from google drive directly

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 Read More

Find duplicates in a folder and convert them to symlinks

Hi, Duplicate files waste precious space on your computer’s hard drive. Here a terminal approach with a script to vonvert them to symlinks: first install the dependencies: Code: sudo apt-get install rdfind symlinks Now create the blxremoveduplicates script: Code: #!/bin/bash if [[ -d „$1“ && ! -L „$1“ ]] ; Read More

Experimental Compression method for folders

Do show you here a method to compress folders, that is not recommended for very very very very and very important backups, but might be interesting to decrease file size for transferring files etc. etc. : first you need to install lrzip tar xz-utils and sed: Code: sudo apt-get install Read More

Image manipulating with lua/-imlib2

Gmic is a bit complicated, gluas has to many bugs and imagemagick is in C, but you can`t write C programs and need to write your own simple image filter? Then the following instruction might be intertesting if you have ubuntu installed: Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C and Read More