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I <3 The Gimp

June 16, 2010 Move your ass to Open Source No comments


The GIMP is an Open Source Image Editor similar to Adobe’s Photoshop, in many ways it is as good as PS especially for the things that most people may do with it.. and especially for the Price as Gimp is Open it is Free.

I recently found a set of Podcasts by a German Teacher who speaks pretty good english named Rolf Steinort. His site is called Meet The Gimp. He posts tutorials on many of the features and bugs in Gimp, I’ve been listening to them for a while and it’s opened my mind to what can be done with Gimp and Photo manipulation..  I’d suggest if you are interested since Gimp is free and lets face it you can’t keep torrenting that Pirated copy of Adobe forever.. You try it..

Woo! Linux Hulu Client!

October 10, 2009 Linux, Move your ass to Open Source No comments

Hulu, which is pretty much shaping up to be part of the future of IPTV as we know it, released a client for Linux.  They released 64 and 32 bit client packages for Ubuntu and Fedora based Distros.  I tested it on Linux Mint 7 which is a fork of Ubuntu.

It’s Pretty Solid. I expected issues but it ran smooth, I’m on a Quad Core machine so I have no idea how it would run on a lesser machine.

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It has a great anime selection, many of them in Japanese which is how I prefer it. And it’s Free. So.. I Suggest if you have a pc and love to watch TV on your own terms but don’t necessarily want to deal with cable or a DVR, give Hulu desktop a try.

Speeding up Firefox

October 8, 2009 Move your ass to Open Source, Neat Stuff that Todd Drools Over No comments

I stumbled upon an article about speeding up Linux and found some options that work on Frefox regardless of platform, I figured I’d repeat these easy options here:

Step #1 in the Firefox Address Bar type about:config and press enter. You’ll see a warning message.  It will say things like “This might void your Warranty!” click the “I’ll be careful” ad don’t be a Nancy.  (my apologies to my Aunt Nancy.. I’m not insinuating you are lame.)

Step #2 Search for the following “values” and change them (Double clicking on them will allow you to change them)

Search for the item on the left Change to the value on the right
network.dns.disableIPv6  FALSE
network.http.pipelining  TRUE
 network.http.proxy.pipelining  TRUE
http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 instead of 4

Step #3 Right click anyplace in the body of the config and select “new” and then “integer” then create the following entries (whats on the left is the “name of the integer” the number is the “value”)

content.notify.backoffcount 5
nglayout.initialpaint.delay  0
ui.submenuDelay  0

Step #4 Restart Firefox


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