Archive for the ‘Application Management’ Category

Installing a laser printer in Ubuntu 9.04

Installing a laser printer is actually straight forward, if you keep in mind, that most laser printers has standard queues, from which they accept input. One of these is the raw queue, also referred to as RAW or RAW1. Using this, you do not have to mingle with drivers in the operating system or drivers [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Filtering Facebook quiz results

Quiz applications and their results are a huge problem on Facebook. They appear frequent and tend to spread like virus through exploiting lists of friends. Some of them even lead to loss of money.
Use this procedure to block them by adding a filter to Firefox.
First, we need to add a script parser, that can parse [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Combining, watermarking and encoding movies

Raw movie clips from a digital camera, often identified by capital file names, ending with AVI, takes up a lot of disc space. Such movie clips might also need to be edited, combined and prepared for viewers, such as sharing with friends and communities, in terms of file size and watermarking.
This procedure will load one [...]

Read the rest of this entry »