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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 [...]

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 [...]

LGM 2019 – Knowledge and Design at Saarbrucken, Germany

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OpenSource is the kind of projects that can actually change someone's life. We use it in pretty much everything without knowing, cause technologies advance faster than ever, and better at single second. However, we kind forget that software, apps and all of that is made by humans and not machines. Having the opportunity again to [...]

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), [...]

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 [...]

FUDCon Córdoba 2015

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FUDCon Córdoba was one of those events that remind us why we do what we do. A conference full of friendship, that between its intimacy, allowed us to share ideas, projects and experiences. Full with good vibes and energy, with incredible people that showed to be experts in what they do and teach us, with thousands of [...]

Convert ogv to animated gif with ffmpeg

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To make the previous article and create the animated gif, instead of just using a single image or make a video, I used a combination between recordmydesktop, ffmpeg and GIMP. 1 First we have to make our recording, and to do this, we can use any app such as recordmydesktop, Istambul, Xvidcap or any you like. In my case, I recorded [...]