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This is a nice, free online app that allows you to quickly provide enviably flawless skin on photo portraits.
Just upload your photo (which might be slow depending on your Internet speed and the size of the photo) and the improved version will come back shortly afterwards.
There are, however, no tweaking options so what-you-see-is-what-you-get. I’ve tried it just a few times, however, and it worked admirably.
Yes, I find it annoying when I’m listening to music on VLC and a Skype call comes in and the computer doesn’t know to stop the music so I can take the call. Well, a new app called ear_candy is supposed to handle just this type of problem. Haven’t tried it yet but will very shortly.
This is an absolutely amazing illusion which I had trouble convincing myself it really was an illusion.
So, I went into Picasa with the shot shown here and cut out one of the towers and then made it a bit larger. I then copied this to my Desktop and made an exact copy. One I called A and the other B.
With A and B side-by-side, it looks like B is more inclined to the right (B is on the right). However, it’s very easy to move B to the left of A in which case A now looks more inclined. You can also place one directly above the other (on my Ubuntu Desktop, windows are slightly transparent) which can show to doubters that the two photos really are identical in every way.
Here’s the original article
with some further explanation.
Just run this in a terminal
wget -O – -q icanhazip.com
and in a few seconds your external IP should appear. Found this here.
I found this really great command in Tips4Linux which is perfect for the geek who just can’t drag him/herself away from the terminal/konsole.
curl -A Mozilla http://www.google.com/search?q=Linux |html2text -width 80
This produces a list of the top 10 search results. What’s really cool is that the links in the results actually open (in my case in Google Chrome for Linux). Don’t know if you can configure things to get the links to open in something else but I don’t have a problem with Chrome although many Linux users mightn’t have it installed.
Additionally, the command itself is flexible. For example, instead of Mozilla, it worked for me just as well when I put opera (no capitals). Also, www.google.ie works just as well as www.google.com
[Edit: Just came across http://goosh.org which offers a command line version of Google from a browser. As this point, it's not exactly clear to me what the advantage of this is. After all, if you're going to use the browser, might as well use the full-blown Google rather than Goosh. Maybe somebody knows in what circumstances I'd preferably use goosh.org ]
This is a great, but short, tutorial from Tips4Linux and how to get some chosen scripts to activate on every boot in Debian-based distros (in my case that includes Ubuntu and Linux Mint).
Now, I’ll admit this is not very profound but I was not aware of the CLI included in this article.
As an example, when I’m away from home, I spend a lot of time looking at photos of people I miss. So, to facilitate opening my Pictures folder I can issue the command
sudo ln -sf ~/Pictures
and an icon providing this access will show up on the Desktop.
