Starting A New Game Business – Presentation
Posted: February 20th, 2009
How To Fold a T-shirt
Posted: August 23rd, 2008[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0mFZ3enhM]
Links – How to Name a Name
Posted: December 2nd, 2007How to Name a Name (Guy Kawasaki)
- What’s My Name
- More Words
- Word Lab Tools
- The Name Game
- – How they named companies
- Trademark Tips for Your Web App
- – United States Patent and Trademark Office
- A Study of the Pros and Cons of Company Names
- – 10 Company Name Types on TechCrunch: Pros and Cons
- – Analysis of “How to Change The World”
- – The Name Inspector
- Dictionary.com
From a quick google search (how to choose a name business):
- Choose the right name for your business
- 5 Rules for Choosing a Business Name
- How To Create a Great Business Name
- How to Name Your Business
- How to Name Your Business (Entrepeneur.com)
Multiple Monitors in Linux Tip
Posted: November 20th, 2007When editing your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, keep in mind that order might matter. Example
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0″
Screen 0 “Screen0″ 1600 0
Screen 1 “Screen1″ 3280 0
Screen 2 “Screen2″ 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse0″ “CorePointer”
EndSection
It’s important that the Screens show in order. The following might not work (at least it didn’t work for me)
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0″
Screen 2 “Screen2″ 0 0
Screen 0 “Screen0″ 1600 0
Screen 1 “Screen1″ 3280 0
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse0″ “CorePointer”
EndSection
because the order is wrong.
Converting Between Audio File Formats
Posted: August 28th, 2007In a previous post I explained a way to convert a cue/FLAC to mp3. Recently I had to convert a cue/APE to mp3. While searching for ways to do it I came across this post in the aidanhm’s stuff blog. While it has very few posts (the last one in mid February) it does have a few posts that explain how to convert between different file formats (APE, FLAC, WAV,…) and how to deal with cuesheets in Ubuntu.
Since it’s explained there, there’s no point in me repeating it here.
While I haven’t done any of this in Mac OS X, I did download xACT
xACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit. It is a GUI based front end (written in AppleScript Studio) for the unix applications Shorten (3.5.1), shntool (2.0.3), monkey’s audio compressor (3.99),flac (1.1.3) and cdda2wav 2.01a32(with paranoia support).
I also looked at this page which explains how to use xACT to convert .flac files to mp3.
UPDATE: Filipe IMed me about a better option for Mac OS X, Max.
HOWTO Convert cue/FLAC to mp3
Posted: December 27th, 2006So you downloaded an album in the cue/FLAC format (a cue sheet + a flac file) and I want to convert it to multiple mp3 files? Here’s what you need to do:
Install the necessary software: audio-convert, gstreamer-flac, mp3splt. Assuming you’re using Ubuntu and have enabled the universe repository, open a terminal and type
sudo apt-get install audio-convert gstreamer-flac mp3splt
Now cd into the directory where the flac file is and type
audio-convert CDImage.flac
(replace CDImage for whatever you flac file is called).
After selecting “mp3″ for the file format and the quality preset you want, audio-convert goes to work for a while: first decompressing the CDImage.flac into a wav and then compressing the latter into an mp3.
Now to “cut” the single mp3 into multiple files – one for each track:
mp3splt -f -c CDImage.cue CDImage.mp3
And that’s it. Additionally you can also install the audio-convert-nautilus-script or SoundConverter if you don’t want to use the command line for converting from flac to mp3.
How To Keep Your Computer Spyware Free – Basic Windows Security
Posted: June 21st, 2005- If you install Microsoft Windows yourself, make sure you are behind some sort of firewall (a simple router like the linksys BEFSR41 will do). If connected to the internet directly a vulnerable Windows PC will become infected within minutes (I’ve seen it happen within seconds). Even after your computer is installed and patched it should remain behind a firewall (preferably both a hardware firewall – any modern broadband router will do – and a software firewall. I’v used the Kerio Personal Firewall but I’ve heard people saying good things about the Tiny Firewall, both have free versions).
- Update Windows using “Windows Update”. Set automatic updates: Start -> My Computer -> Control Panel -> System -> Automatic Updates.
- Install AntiVirus Software. Norton Antivirus, Trend Micro, AntiVir, Bitdefender (version 8 is free), or any other you like. It is very important to have antivirus software. Make sure the antivirus auto-protect function is activated. Run it once at least once a month.
- Keep your antivirus software updated.
- Download and install Mozilla Firefox. Use it instead of Internet Explorer. Do not use Internet Explorer!
- Keep firefox updated. Firefox will notify you when updates are available with an arrow in the upper right corner, click it to download and install the updates.
- Download and install Spybot S&D. Run it. Go to Update, search for updates and download any available updates. Then click Search and Destroy -> check for problems. After it is finished go to “Immunize” and click “Immunize”. Repeat this process at least once a month and whenever you suspect you have spyware or adware installed. If Spybot seems unable to remove a adware/spyware program, reboot and enter windows in safe mode and run Spybot S&D. If this doesn’t work:
- Install additional anti-spyware software. Unfortunatelly, not all anti-spyware products detect & fix the same problems so it might be a good idea to have more than just one anti-spyware program. I recommend you use Spybot and if you experience spy/adware problems that aren’t going away, if you suspect you have spy/adware that isn’t being detect or if you are simply paranoid install Webroot Spy Sweeper.