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Gimp in nur einem Fenster mit GimpBox

28. September 2010
by Christoph
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Single-Window Gimp with GimpBox

When people speak about the Pros and Cons of Gimp you often hear that the “multi window mode” is the most annoying point. Personally I’m used to the way Gimp handles it’s windows, especially when you work on a dual monitor setup or a big screen. But I’ve got to admit, that working with gimp on a small screen is not a fun thing to do. Gimp will get a redesign in the near future, but until then you can you GimpBox to integrate all Gimp windows into a single frame.

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Skype-Gespräche unter Linux aufzeichnen

29. January 2010
by Christoph
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Record Skype calls with Linux

Sometimes you need to record a telephone call, e.g. when you do a interview via phone and create an audio-blog afterwards. The Skype Call Recorder is a simple program to do this, it is a little tool to record the audio of your Skype calls. It’s licensed under the GPL and the author created packages for all mayor Linux distributions. He offers package sources for Ubuntu/Debian too, but the packages are not signed, so better stick to the .deb files.

After you installed Skype Call Recorder you’ll find an entry inside “Applications -> Accessories” to start the program. When you start Skype Call Recorder the first time while Skype is running, Skype will ask if you permit Skype Call Recorder to access the Skype-API. Of course you have to allow this.

Allow access to the Skype-API

The recorder doesn’t have a “full” GUI. After you started the tool, it will show up inside the GNOME panel as an icon. When you start or receive a call within Skype, the Recorder will ask you if you like to record the call. If you do this, you will find the recording as .mp3-file inside the directory “~/Skype Calls”.

You can reach the settings when you click with the right mouse button on the panel icon of the Skype Call Recorder. Here you can set rules for your contacts, so that the recording starts automatically when you call this contact, you can change the location where the program stores the recordings or adjust the file format to your need. I prefer Ogg Vorbis with “Quality 3″ and Mono.

Adjust Skype Call Recorders to your need.

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Sichere Passwörter mit PwdHash für Google Chrome bzw. Chromium

22. November 2009
by Christoph
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Secure and unique passwords with PwdHash for Chromium

I really like Google Chrome or Chromium when it comes to get the best performance out of a outdated computer. With Firefox the fan of my notebook gets pretty fast pretty noisy. With Chromium pages load faster and without much strain on the cpu.

But I dearly miss my beloved Firefox extensions. One of them ist PwdHash. With PwdHash you can give every website a secure and unique password. You don’t need a password manager or tricks to remember your complicated password. PwdHash creates a hashed password out of a master password and the URL of the webpage. This way you have unique and save passwords for every site you login. The extension makes the transition from master password plus URL to the hashed password smooth and easy.

I didn’t bother to find a PwdHash-extension for Chromium, but by pure luck I stumbled upon the site of the pwdhash Extension for Google Chrome. It’s easy to install that extension, but Chromium looses the plugin every time you restart the browser.

To install it permanently you’ve got to download the archive, extract the .tar.gz file [1] and start Google Chrome or Chromium. After the browser showed up you enter the line…

chrome://extensions/

as URL [2]. Inside the extension manager click on “Pack extension” [3] and choose the folder you just extracted from the downloaded archive [4]…

Install PwdHash inside Chromium

Install PwdHash inside Chromium

You should get a message, that a file called pwdhash-chrome.crx has been created. This is your packaged extension. Go again into Chromium and enter “\” on Linux or “C:” on Windows to get into the file browser mode of Chromium. Navigate to the pwdhash-chrome.crx and click on the file to install the extension permanently.

A short note to all the fans of Microsoft Windows… The current version of Google Chrome doesn’t support extensions yet. You need the development version called Chromium. To update Google Chrome go to dev.chromium.org and click under “Subscribing to a channel” on the “Dev channel”. This way you will update Chrome to the current developer edition.

Well, if you read until this point and if you’re to lasy to build PwdHash for Chromium by yourself, you can download my pwdhash-chrome.crx. Just fire up Chromium, go to my blog and click on the link. Chromium will download the extension and install PwdHash for Chromium.

Time to boot of Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 2 and Windows 7

6. October 2009 by Christoph | 41 Comments

For many people the time to boot up their system is quite essential. Every second counts. Especially when it comes to comparisons of operation systems, 5 seconds less waiting seems to proof that one system is better that another… Well Mark Shuttleworth announced for Karmic further improvement on the boot time, and it looks like the Ubuntu developers did a good job.

On YouTube there’s a video which shows two (nearly) identical laptops. One runs Ubuntu Ubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha 2 and the other one uses Windows 7 RC. The windows system uses a Intel Core2 Duo Mobile T7250 which runs at 2Ghz where as the Ubuntu system only has a T7100 with 1.8Ghz.

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Lizenziert unter CC-BY von Pop!Tech auf Flickr

24. September 2009
by Christoph
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New Artwork for Ubuntu Karmic 9.10?

Version after version Canonical promised a new look for Ubuntu, but since Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 the desktop appearance didn’t change much. A couple of polished icons here and there, a new slightly different wallpaper with every release, but nothing special. The main color stayed a bright orange for more than three years.

With the latest updates of Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 things changed. It looks like that the Artwork team takes up the “old” bronze tone from Ubuntu Breezy Bager 5.04…

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Paint Mono… Paint.NET für Linux

10. August 2009
by Christoph
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Paint Mono… Paint.NET for Linux

Paint.NET is a popular graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It’s easier to use than Adobe Photoshop/GIMP but far more powerful than MS Paint. The program is build on the .NET Framework, so that it can be ported to Linux thanks to Mono. Two years ago Miguel de Icaza announced that he ported Paint.NET to Linux, but only now I can confirm that his port works…

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dropbox

8. August 2009
by Christoph
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Dropbox-Beta syncs data inside lan via P2P

Dropbox evolves slowly step by step. Until now Dropbox clients could either up- or download data to/from dropbox. But they couldn’t sync files between computers inside a LAN. This will change with future releases and if you’re interested you can test the new LAN Sync feature already with the latest public beta of the new Dropbox 0.7.x .

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Windows 7 Fail und Gratulation an KDE

5. August 2009
by Christoph
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Windows 7 Fail and Congrats at KDE

Since the first public screenshots of Microsoft’s Windows 7 the KDE Community noticed the remarkable similarity between Windows 7 and KDE 4. Could it be possible that Microsoft’s design team took a good look at the brand news KDE 4? Well, we don’t know. But what we know is that people can’t see the difference.

The German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost published today an article about Windows 7 and illustrated it with a computer showing KDE4. Mika1860 from the German ubuntuusers.de Community stumbled upon this article and made a quick scan…

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Screencasts mit Hilfe von Key Status Monitor verbessern

8. July 2009
by Christoph
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Improve your Screencasts with Key Status Monitor

On the internet you stumble quite often upon screencasts which try to explain software tools or guide you through applications. The most popular site are probably ShowMeDo, who offer screencasts about FOSS software, Screencasters at heathenx.org who do videos on Inkscape or e.g. Ubuntu Screencasts with screencasts on Ubuntu linux.

When you watch such a video and the Author follows his usual work flow you’ve got a little problem. Imagine you want to learn how you delete all files inside a directory. The author hits “Ctrl+A” and after that “Del” and all the files are gone. When you see this inside a video, you magically see the files disappear, but not how! You can solve this problem with the little tool Key Status Monitor…

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