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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 [...]

Canva Vs. Inkscape

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I've been trying Canva since a few months ago, and truth is, it has blown my mind. HEY, I still LOVE inkscape, but when I started giving workshops to people who wanted to improve their social networks, reality was that my students were not experts on design, and tools like this became my allies. I've [...]

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 [...]