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What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Category Archives: Software & Websites
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx: Terminal Quick Launch by Right-clicking!
If you want an even quicker way of launching a terminal command line window outside of navigating to the Applications menu, selecting Accessories and then clicking on Terminal, then the excellent little Nautilus extension named nautilus-open-terminal is most definitely for you! Continue reading
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Tagged context menu, extension, nautilus, right-click, target terminal, terminal, Ubuntu
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx: Simple Resize of Images by Right-Clicking on It!
Seeing as we are all using Ubuntu/Gnome’s powerful Nautilus file manager, a particularly quick and easy way to resize or rotate images by simply right-clicking on them comes courtesy of the extremely handy little Nautilus-image-converter extension. Continue reading
Posted in Software & Websites, Tutorials
Tagged context menu, extension, image manipulation, image resize, nautilus, nautilus image converter, resize, rotate, Ubuntu
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx: Simple Way to Mount a Samba Drive in Your Home Directory
Samba is a fantastic free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol that allows for shared file and print services across a variety of Windows and Unix (and even Mac OS) platforms. Today’s quick tip highlights a simple way of mounting a remote samba directory as a folder in one’s home directory in Ubuntu. Continue reading
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Tagged command line, drive, Linux, mount, samba, share, smbd, terminal, Ubuntu
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Ubuntu: How to View the Current Date and Time via Command Line
If you are working on an Ubuntu server installation that comes in the command line only variation, you might at any point in time want to see just what exactly the server’s time is currently set to. Continue reading
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Tagged current time, date, Linux, set time, time, Ubuntu, view time
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Paper.li – The Daily Twitter Newspaper
Paper.li is a fun little service. The premise for it is pretty simple. Register your Twitter account with them and they will then analyze all links it can find in any of your recent posts and those of the people you are following as well. Those links it will then use to build up a “newspaper” or sorts, linking in categorised images, videos, news articles and blog posts in a standard web news site layout. Continue reading
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Tagged aggregator, daily paper, newspaper, paper.li, twitter
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