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Tips, tricks, howtos and information about some useful software applications
This section contains tips and tricks, howtos and help about useful Windows and Linux software applications.
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Adobe Photoshop ignoring ctrl+alt+print screen
Posted April 24th, 2008 in Applications
I recently installed Windows Vista onto my primary desktop computer and installed Adobe Photoshop CS2. I use the Ctrl+Alt+Print Screen shortcut key sequence a lot to grab a screen for pasting into Photoshop. The other day it suddenly stopped working and I intially assumed the problem to be with Windows Vista.
Azureus crashes on startup
Posted September 29th, 2007 in Applications
Azureus is a cross browser bittorrent client, and after upgrading openSUSE from 10.2 to 10.3 Azureus wouldn't start. I would get the splash screen flash up but then it would crash without actually running.
Capture streaming audio and video media with HiDownload
Posted January 21st, 2004 in Applications (Updated April 13th, 2005)
HiDownload is a Windows program that lets you capture streaming media such as real player movies, real player audio streams and Windows media movies and save them to your computer. HiDownload can capture live streaming radio broadcasts as well.
Change Adobe Photoshop Filename Compatibility Options
Posted May 10th, 2008 in Applications
Adobe Photoshop's "Save for Web" function will truncate filenames to 31 characters by default to (apparantly) allow for compatibility with Mac OS 9 browsers. The dialog box which gives the warning about the filename truncation tells you to edit the output settings but it isn't that clear where to go to actually change the filename compatibility options. This post looks at how to do this.
Enable the Web Interface for uTorrent
Posted April 30th, 2008 in Applications
The uTorrent bittorrent client has a web interface which allows you to control uTorrent with a web browser. This means you can control uTorrent while you are out and about or, in my case, from an upstairs laptop when the actual download is happening in my downstairs office. This post looks at how to enable the web interface for uTorrent version 1.7.7. It should work for all 1.7 versions.
Error creating audio CD with K3B with MP3 files
Posted December 27th, 2007 in Applications
The KDE CD and DVD burning application K3B allows you to create audio CDs by simply dragging and dropping MP3 and OGG Vorbis files and then clicking the "Burn" button. Conversion of the MP3 and OGG files are done automatically for you without having to do anything else, and the audio CD is created which can be played in a regular CD player.
If you get the error message "Problems while adding files to the project." and then "Unable to handle the following files due to an unsupported format: You may manually convert these audio files to wave using another application supporting the audio format and then add the wave files to the K3b project" when attempting to create an audio CD from MP3 files with K3B, then MP3 support has not been included in K3B and you need to add it.
How to save a video stream to file using HiDownload
Posted January 21st, 2004 in Applications (Updated March 19th, 2007)
HiDownload is a Windows program that lets you capture streaming media such as real player movies, real player audio streams and Windows media movies and save them to your computer. HiDownload can capture live streaming radio broadcasts as well.
Howto log into an SSH Server Using PuTTY
Posted March 23rd, 2004 in Applications (Updated May 24th, 2005)
PuTTY is a free telnet and SSH client for Windows and UNIX. This article covers how to log into an SSH server using PuTTY on Windows and also covers how to use private rsa and dsa keys when logging into an SSH server using PuTTY.
Howto save an audio stream to file with HiDownload
Posted January 21st, 2004 in Applications (Updated April 13th, 2005)
HiDownload is a Windows program that lets you capture streaming media such as real player movies, real player audio streams and Windows media movies and save them to your computer. HiDownload can capture live streaming radio broadcasts as well.
Installing fonts in Open Office
Posted November 30th, 2003 in Applications (Updated March 19th, 2007)
Open Office is an open source office suite which is compatible with Microsoft Office, containing a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software. This article looks at how to install fonts on Unix/Linux/OSX.
Installing VMWare on Gentoo
Posted March 10th, 2005 in Applications and VMWare
This article covers how to install VMWare on Gento Linux if you are getting errors like the "/etc/init.d/vmware: line 919: [: -: integer expression expected" error when trying to configure the VMWare options.
Java error executing Zend Studio
Posted September 28th, 2007 in Applications and PHP (Updated September 28th, 2007)
After an upgrade from openSUSE 10.2 to 10.3 I wasn't able to run Zend Studio 5.5.0. I would click the icon to start it up and nothing would happen; even the splash screen would not appear. This post looks at the Java error the upgrade caused and the fix required to make it work again.
Konqueror
Posted November 30th, 2003 in Applications (Updated March 19th, 2007)
Konqueror is an open source web browser and file management system used in the KDE Desktop Environment, and the underlying KHTML rendering engine is also used in Apple's Safari web browser.
Kyum graphical frontend for Yum on KDE with screenshots
Posted November 24th, 2007 in Applications
While installing Yum on openSUSE I discovered there was graphical frontend to Yum for KDE called KYum, so I installed that as well. This post has some screenshots of KYum to show it working in action.
Mozilla Thunderbird exceeded maximum number of connections to IMAP server
Posted October 30th, 2007 in Applications
When looking at emails in several IMAP folders one after the other in Mozilla Thunderbird, I got the following error message and was unable to view that folder and the emails in it.
"Unable to connect to your IMAP server. You may have exceeded the maximum number of connections to this server. If so, use the Advanced IMAP Server Settings dialog to reduce the number of cached connections."
New_Face failed error when using MPlayer
Posted October 10th, 2007 in Applications and Linux/Unix/BSD (Updated October 10th, 2007)
After upgrading from openSUSE 10.2 to openSUSE 10.3 I got the error message New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf) when starting up MPlayer to watch video files. MPlayer would run fine and show the video and play sound ok, but the on screen display would fail to display anything; the subfont.ttf it was trying to find is what was used for the on screen display.
Setting the tab size in nano
Posted October 27th, 2007 in Applications
Nano is a text editor used on Linux and Unix based systems and is an enchanced free clone of the Pico text editor. By default the tab size in nano is 8 spaces, but it is possible to change the tab size either on the command line, in the system wide configuration file, or in a user specific configuration file.
Stop Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Vista asking you to register
Posted April 15th, 2008 in Applications
On Windows Vista, every time you start up Adobe Photoshop CS2 you are asked to register. There's an button labelled "Do Not Register", but despite clicking this the next time you start Adobe Photoshop CS2 you will be prompted to register again. This post looks at the solution for this problem.
Use RSA and DSA key files with PuTTY and puttygen
Posted March 23rd, 2004 in Applications (Updated May 24th, 2005)
PuTTY is a free telnet and SSH client for Windows and UNIX. This article covers how to log into an SSH server using PuTTY on Windows and also covers how to use private rsa and dsa keys when logging into an SSH server using PuTTY.
VMWare Writelock Disk Error
Posted July 16th, 2004 in Applications and VMWare (Updated May 24th, 2005)
VMWare is virtual machine software that lets you run a guest operating system inside your operating system without having to reboot your computer. This article covers an error that can happen which prevents VMWare from starting up in the event of a crash.
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