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How to prepare a set of pictures for a digital photo frame

In this example, we will prepare a set of raw pictures for use with a digital photo frame. The purpose is to reduce the file size, so the memory card can hold more pictures and the digital photo frame will be able to load the pictures fast. The purpose is also to normalize [...]

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Quality Response Codes

A quality response (QR) code is a form of matrix barcode, that consists of black modules, that has been arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be made up of any kind of data. The amount of data that can be stored in the QR code depends [...]

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Delete WordPress comment spam

The programmers of WordPress like comment spam. That’s why they did not implement a ‘delete all’ feature in the comment section of the dashboard – nor disable the MySQL injection possibility, that spam scripts use.
In stead, they want you to buy useless anti-spam software and get a hold of your credit card information.
However, there is [...]

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Keyboard shortcuts to special characters in Ubuntu

In the Ubuntu operating system, you can use keyboard shortcuts to insert special characters, such as the check mark symbol (✔) or the Euro currency symbol ().
In this example, we will use the keyboard shortcut to insert the check mark symbol in this article.
We open the Special Characters application. This can be opened from OpenOffice [...]

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Command line video editing with FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, which is the leading audio and video codec library. FFmpeg is free software. FFmpeg has good documentation in their homepage. Howard Pritchett wrote a good article with examples.
In this example we want to join sequences from video clips [...]

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