How to: Tips and Tricks
When you attempt to upload a file in WordPress that is not in the default list of acceptable file types, you will receive the following error: File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.
While there’s no admin-based tool for editing list of allowed file types, it’s not at all difficult to add your own or remove any existing. More »
FFmpeg is a versatile tool to encode and convert a multitude of video and audio formats. x264 encodes high-quality video superior to other popular encoders. Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) ships with a version of ffmpeg without libfaac and x264 support because of licensing issues. This means you will need to compile ffmpeg yourself. This guide explains how. More »
youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.x (x being at least 4), and it's not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X.
1. install youtube-dl
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
2. use this command to download files from YouTube
youtube-dl -o [name of output file] [YouTube URL]
3. To view all options youtube-dl, paste this in command line
man youtube-dl
To quit from manual press q key More »
Default are Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons in the title bar on the right. This short tutorial shows you, how to put these icons to the left, like in Mac OS X.
1. Press ALT + F2, type in gconf-editor and press Enter key
2. Navigate to apps > metacity > general. On the right find option called button_layout
3. Double click on the value menu:minimize,maximize,close and change it to
close,maximize,minimize:menu
4. Look at your new titlebar :) It may look like this
Tip: You can remove unused buttons, or change their order. Just change the value to eg. close:menu or menu:close,minimize,maximize.
Easiest way to convert over 100 image formats to PDF is using ImageMagick. To install type in terminal:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Convert image to pdf:
convert source.png target.pdf
Merge all images in folder to one PDF file:
convert *.jpg target.pdf
For more info enter
convert -man
If you want to convert .nrg file to .iso file you can use nrg2iso tool to create this. nrg2iso is a program that extracts ISO9660 data from Nero “.nrg” CD-ROM image files.
Install nrg2iso in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install nrg2iso
In this guide I will show you the easiest way, how to install a LAMP server. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. There are many methods to install LAMP, for example the standart one see this howto for ubuntu: Howto: Install LAMP and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu
Under Terminal type command:
sudo tasksel
Select LAMP server and hit OK
If prompted, insert new root password for the MySQL
Gmount-iso is a small tool written using PyGTK and Glade. It allows you to easily mount your cd images. This is a frontend to the mount -o loop -t iso9660 foo.iso /mountpoint command.
To install open terminal and type the following command
sudo apt-get install gmountiso
The application is available from Applications > System Tools > Gmount-iso.
Once it opens, you can specify your .iso file and mountpoint, where you want to mount. Then click on the Mount button. If prompted, enter your password.
To unmount, just select your mount point from Mounted Images and click on Unmount.
This tutorial shows how to disable 60 seconds delay notification when logout, shutdown and restart Ubuntu 9.10.
First,press Alt+F2 and type gconf-editor. Click Run.
Navigate to apps > Indicator-session. Double click on the only line in right box and set its value to true.
Done.
