Category: software

Link: Paparazzi Takes Full Web Page Screen Shots in Mac OS X Easily

Anyone who works with the web likely knows that it can be a challenge to take a full web page screenshot. While the traditional go-to options for many web designers and developers is to print a page as a PDF or use the Mac standard screen shot keyboard shortcuts in OS X, for longer pages users have to scroll through a web page and take pictures repeatedly, then use a third party app like Pixelmator or Photoshop to join them together, a time consuming and tedious process. There’s a better way though, thanks to a free Mac app called Paparazzi, which offers a much easier approach to take complete screen shots of entire web pages regardless of how long or wide the website is.

Full article here:
Paparazzi Takes Full Web Page Screen Shots in Mac OS X Easily (OS X Daily)

NOTE: Depending on the browser used, it might be possible to get an extension or add-on that provides similar functionality from within the browser itself. For example, in Firefox you can use the ScreenGrab! (fix version) add-on to get this:

Screengrab! saves entire webpages as images. Just right-click on the page you want to grab and look in the “Screengrab” menu.
It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard, or upload to internet.

Link: How to Run Linux Applications On Your Mac

Linux is beloved by many around the world for its simplicity and ultimate customization Because it’s open source (and free!) many Mac users choose to run it as a virtual machine on VMWare, Parallels, or even Virtual Box. However, sometimes you might want to run a Linux-based application without having to jump through too many hoops. Using a SSH tool called X over SSH2, you can graphically load remote Linux apps and use them right on your Mac.

What You’ll Need:

>> Linux computer or virtual machine on a Mac
>> Apple X11 (Download Here)

Full article here:
How to Run Linux Applications On Your Mac (MacLife)

Setup Local Mail Server Using Postfix, Dovecot And Squirrelmail on CentOS 6.5/6.4 or OpenSUSE 13.x

Postfix is a free open source mail transfer agent (MTA). It is easy to administer, fast and as well as the secure MTA. It’s an alternative to Sendmail, which is the default MTA for RHEL.

Well, let us see how to setup a basic local mail server using Postfix, Dovecot and Squirrelmail On CentOS 6.5 [or Opensuse], although it should work on RHEL, Scientific Linux 6.x series [or SLES Servers].

Full articles here, from Unixmen:
Setup Local Mail Server Using Postfix, Dovecot And Squirrelmail On CentOS 6.5/6.4
Setup Local Mail Server Using Postfix, Dovecot And Squirrelmail On OpenSUSE 13.x

Link: linux-dash: Monitors “Linux Server Performance” Remotely Using Web Browser

If you are looking for a low resource, speedy server statistics monitoring script, look no further than linux-dash. Linux Dash’s claim to popular is its slick and responsive web dashboard that works better on large and small screens.

linux dash is a memory efficient, low resource, easy to install, server statistics monitoring script written in PHP. The web statistics page allows you to drag and drop the various widgets and rearrange the display as you desire. The script displays live statistics of your server, including RAM, CPU, Disk Space, Network Information, Installed Software’s, Running Processes and much more.

Full article here:
linux-dash: Monitors “Linux Server Performance” Remotely Using Web Browser (Tecmint)

Link: Configurable Notification Bubbles For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Close On Click, Change Position, Colors, Size And More)

The patched NotifyOSD adds the following features to Ubuntu’s default notifications (all are optional of course):

  • close on click: the notifications can be configured to close when clicked on;
  • themes support: change color, width, height, font size, opacity, icon size and more;
  • working timeout option (“-t”);
  • change the notification position: top-right, middle-right, bottom-right, bottom-left, middle-left and top-left corners;
  • prevent the notification bubbles from fading out when the mouse pointer hovers over them.

Full article here:
Configurable Notification Bubbles For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Close On Click, Change Position, Colors, Size And More) (Web Upd8)
Related:
Customize Bubble Notifications as you like in Ubuntu 14.04/13.10/12.10/12.04 (PPA) (NoobsLab)

Link: How to Bind Shortcut Keys to WINE Programs in Linux

So you love your Linux machine, but you must have that one (or probably a few) Windows program working on your machine. You found what felt like a magic wand, and installed Wine. But when you go to use that favorite app, the shortcut keys you’re used to in the Windows world just don’t work here in Linux! So what do you do?  We’ll show you how you can map and bind shortcut keys to your Wine program. We assume you already have Wine installed.

Full article here:
How to Bind Shortcut Keys to WINE Programs in Linux (Make Tech Easier)

Link: Converting Video Files to H.264 MP4 Format Using HandBrake on Linux

There are many different video formats in circulation, including AVI, 3GP, MOV, MPG, WMV and the formats used by DVDs and Blu-ray. One file type that has become a common denominator across multiple platforms is the MP4 file. If you need to convert  a video file to MP4, then HandBrake is an excellent choice. It is a multi-platform, multi-threaded video transcoder that is available not only for Linux but also for OS X and Windows.

Full article here:
Converting Video Files to H.264 MP4 Format Using HandBrake on Linux (Make Tech Easier)

Link: BASIC programming with Gambas for the beginner programmer

Scratch is a great tool for teaching programming to young children, but what happens when kids outgrow Scratch? Among Raspberry Pi aficionados, the typical answer is to advance to using Python, which is an excellent choice. However, in honor of the 50th birthday of BASIC, I would like to suggest another programming environment: Gambas.

We would just add that BASIC is an underrated and under-appreciated programming language, that often can be easily understood and utilized by people who just don’t seem to “get” regular programming languages. Also, if you just need a small program to do some specific task, in many cases it is much faster and easier to code it in BASIC than in any other language. One of the strengths of BASIC is that the keywords are more mnemonic, therefore it is a better choice for people who have poor memories, and who therefore spend more time looking up the syntax of statements in other languages than doing actual programming.

Some “purists” object to BASIC for various reasons (usually spouting some nonsense about how it encourages bad coding habits, or some similarly nebulous objection) but we think the real truth of the matter is that they have done everything they can to try to bury a language that is so easy to use that almost anyone can program in it. If you are a “professional” programmer, or a teacher of computer programming, you don’t want to make it too easy for the hoi polloi to write programs, because if they can, your services might not be needed anymore!

So if you don’t already have a preferred programming language, and you’re not seeking employment as a professional programmer (or just want to get your feet wet in programming), and you’re running Linux or BSD, give Gambas a try – you might like it!

Full article here:
BASIC programming with Gambas for the beginner programmer (opensource.com)
Raspberry Pi users, also see this thread:
GAMBAS(basic) (Raspberry Pi)

Link: BASIC is 50

So today (30th April, 2014)  marks the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language! Hurrah!

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To help celebrate this, I’ve made a new release of my RTB – Return To BASIC interpreter for the Raspberry Pi. RTB started life about 2.5 years ago – even before the Raspberry Pi hardware was on-sale. I wasn’t initially thinking about the Pi, just Linux in-general, but since the release of the Pi, it has gained a small and growing userbase.

Full article here:
BASIC is 50 (Gordons Projects)
Related:
Celebrating BASIC at 50 (Kresge Physical Sciences Library)

Link: How to turn the new Firefox 29 into the old Firefox

Firefox 29 will introduce changes to the web browser that will rock the world of some users of the browser. The version of Firefox ships with Australis, a design, layout and feature change that introduces major changes to Firefox and is in my opinion comparable to the major switch from Firefox 3 to 4.

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Good news is that you can modify the browser to your liking or restore the interface so that it looks similar to the one you used to work with. Bad news is that you have to rely on third-party authors to do so.

Full article here:
How to turn the new Firefox 29 into the old Firefox (gHacks Technology News)
Related:
How to restore Firefox’s classic theme after the Australis interface update (gHacks Technology News)