Creating Smoke Type in GIMP

26 Jan 2009
Posted by Harlem

I spend a lot of time looking at design blogs on the internet and am curious about the tools that they use.  Usually, designers are using tools like Photoshop or Illustrator and I often think to myself if I could do the same thing with open source alternatives.  Well, in this tutorial I am going to try and reproduce a tutorial on how to create smokey type like the one done on abduzeedo.com.  I found out that there are many differences between GIMP and Photoshop, but I was still able to reproduce the text effect.

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Installing Songbird on Ubuntu 8.10

02 Jan 2009
Posted by Harlem

Just recently released is a 1.0 stable edition of what i think is a pretty good music management application.  That application is called Songbird and is a viable alternative to a not too crowded category of linux music managers.  Sure you could use tried and true packages like Amarok or Rhythmbox.  I happen to have both of those mentioned and also VLC which is a much more powerful yet simple music player, but I think when I show you the interface for Songbird I think you will agree that it looks and closely mimics a decent and very popular music manager made popular by Apple

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How to Edit GRUB in Kubuntu the Easy Way

15 Dec 2008
Posted by Harlem

Listen, if you dual boot then you then you know how to edit your Grub menu.  Probably through a series of command line commands and then carefully editting the menu.lst that is buried in the /boot/grub/ directory of you filesystem.  Then it is just another large leap to figure out what you can edit and then proceding to do it.  Of course, if you have done it once it is easy enough to do it again because repitition is the key to understanding or so I am told.  It doesn't hurt to learn how to use the command line especially if you are wanting to know your Ubuntu Linux syst

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