Category Archives: Howto/Tutorial

Opera Fixes @Mentions For Facebook

Posted on August 25, 2010 by hkothari

If you use Facebook and Opera a lot, you’ll know that for some odd reason, the @Mentions tagging doesn’t work with Opera out of the box, you have to mask the browser as firefox to get it to work which … Continue reading →

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Linux Window Manager & Java Problems: Blank Window Fix

Posted on August 24, 2010 by hkothari

For a while I had problems with Java and my window managers because many of them were minimal and tiling and therefore not reparenting window managers, which meant that Java AWT applications experienced problems, usually showing up as a blank … Continue reading →

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Bind Shortcut Keys on Linux with XBindKeys

Posted on August 21, 2010 by hkothari

A while ago I posted a tutorial on how to map a key with awesome to take a screenshot, well in case you don’t use Awesome (a shame if you don’t) or if you want another, possibly easier way to … Continue reading →

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Groovy/Grails BBCode Markup Tutorial

Posted on August 17, 2010 by hkothari

I recently took it upon myself to implement a BBCode codec class for Groovy/Grails, and this is what I came up with. class BBCodeCodec {   static map = [ ‘[b](.*?)[/b]‘:’<strong>$1</strong>’, ‘[i](.*?)[/i]‘:’<em>$1</em>’, ‘[url=(.*?)](.*?)[/url]‘:’<a href="$1" target="_blank">$2</a>’, ‘[url](.*?)[/url]‘:’<a href="$1">$1</a>’ ]   static … Continue reading →

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Removing a Background with Gimp and the Quick Mask Tool

Posted on August 14, 2010 by hkothari

So gimp contains a useful tool, the quick mask too which you can use to remove backgrounds real easily, so I’m going to show you how to use it right now. Just as a note, I’m using the 2.7-dev version, … Continue reading →

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