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Configuring the Taotronic Headphones with Microphone on Linux

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I've owned a TaoTronic TT-BH22 headphones with noise cancellation for a while ago, and I can tell you that despite being quite cheap have worked perfectly for me. Battery life is fantastic (around 40 hours) and noise cancelling, even if it's not 100% perfect as the professional ones, is more than acceptable. However, then I [...]

Create an Amazon Kindle ebook cover

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When we are creating a book that will be published at Amazon Kindle Store and we want it to be printed as well as digital, we need to have some important considerations when comes to create the cover. It's not just about having an attractive cover that encourage readers to buy, but it also has [...]

Export a multi-page pdf with GIMP

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Sometimes we have pdf's that we need to edit and to do so we can use apps like Inkscape (which we already saw on a previous article) or GIMP. When you edit them with Inkscape, you have the advantage that the imported content will remain as vector (except those attached images that will remain as bitmaps), [...]

Standard size of a wallpaper

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If you're a designer, photographer or just someone who wants to set a nice image as background on your computer but you have no idea about which size to use, then this is an article for you There is a wide variety of screens available, so finding the best size for your screen might turn [...]

darktable user manual: chapter 1 and 2 (spanish)

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Manual de Usuarios darktable - Capitulo 1 y 2 de Tatica Leandro For a couple of years I've been helping with darktable's spanish translation but my real goal has always been to translate the official usermanual. It's a huge task because these guys always add fantastic stuff to the app, so my translation time is mostly consumed [...]

Download web files in sequential numbering

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Has been a busy week at work, and this time I had to download some files from a website but using sequential numbering. Would be easy just to right click the file, download them and rename each one, however, when we talk about 50 items with over 50 files each that doesn't seam the right [...]

Fedora 17: Susan gets a Makeover!

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Finally! After skiping Fedora16 (and don’t even ask why) I can do a clean instalation at Susan (my laptop, and yes… Because Susan Calvin) of the Beefy Miracle Fedora 17. This is not intent to be an instalation guide, is just what I have been doing and some issues I have been solving, among to […]