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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 [...]

Compress a PDF with ghostscript

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This days I had to send a multiple page PDF with a bunch of pictures on it, but requirements said that it needed to be smaller than 5Mb. With Ghostscript I was able to transform a 10.9MB file into a 1.2Mb without loosing quality, since it was mandatory that the small letters contained on the [...]

3 easy ways to sharpen skin with darktable

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I was mostly an avid user of the Sharpen and RAW denoise modules before LGM, but folks were kind to teach me another way to get my sharpening, and since I tend to forget stuff, here are my notes on that. Sharpen module: As its name says, might be the easiest way to add that [...]

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 [...]

Gimp100Podcasts 42: Hackergotchis

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A hackergotchi is a picture of a writer used as an avatar to identify the author of a given web feed in blog aggregators. A hackergotchi is usually a head shot of the posting author, and the most commonly used form of a hackergotchi is a head shot of the author with a drop shadow [...]

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 [...]