A few days ago, I had written a post about the difficulties I had encountered in an attempt to capture an image of a menu under GNOME. A reader, “mysurface“, who, by the way, has written an article about taking screenshots, was 100% positive that, after issuing ImageMagick’s import command, it is still possible to switch between running applications with Alt-Tab and trigger menus with Alt, before using the mouse cursor to select the area that will be captured.
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CC Configurator plugin version 1.0 is out!
I proudly present the latest and greatest version 1.0 of the Creative Commons configurator plugin for WordPress. The code was almost re-written from scratch, but now the plugin is feature-rich, more flexible and is 100% ready for localization! Greek users will find the Greek translation at the plugin home page. This is the first time…
BIP IRC Proxy
A while back I had mentioned dircproxy as a solution for an IRC proxy server. Although dircproxy is good and effective, recently I’ve been reading many positive comments about another similar application, BIP. I hope I find some free time in the next days to give it a shot. Judging by its extensive feature set,…
Print a Man Page
Reading a man page using a terminal application is easy, but I doubt if it would ever win a convenience award. Sometimes, it is necessary to print the man page. I can recommend two ways of doing this.
Organizing Mailing List messages with Evolution
This article deals with the various methods that can be used in order to achieve more effective and productive management of email messages which originate from mailing lists.
Announcement: Downtime on Sunday, Mar 04 2007
There will be some more server downtime this Sunday, Mar 04 2007. This is the second Sunday in a row, during which the server will not be accessible. This time, the Public Power Corporation S.A., the domestic electric power supplier has scheduled a five hour black-out in the Thessaloniki center area (do not know how…