Miami
I normally try to post here at least a couple of times a week. Lately I just haven’t had the opportunity to post – with good reason: I’m on vacation in Miami and simply haven’t had the chance to connect very much to the Internet. We’ve been blessed with mostly good weather most of our [...]
Making the first video intro
Over the past year and a half I’ve posted a few Linux and hardware-related videos on Youtube under the channel chaslinux. One thing that’s always bugged me is that it didn’t have a real intro. For a couple of the videos I used OpenShot’s text rendering capabilities to create a basic title, but nothing fancy. [...]
Video intro by Inkscape
This is the first attempt at a basic video introduction created mostly using the free and open source Inkscape vector graphics tool. Technorati Tags: gimp, inkscape, intro video
Simplest way to copy DVDs in Linux
In my quest to find the fastest way in Linux to get my DVDs on to my XBMC system I stumbled upon a great way to get all the DVD features and great quality – all very simply. The dd command is often used to back up entire drives, or partitions to a file or [...]
XBMC – navigating movies by numbers on remote
If you’ve navigated movies in XBMC by clicking on the navigation buttons – STOP! Scrolling through a lot of movies takes time, particularly if you want to navigate to the M or N movies (middle). You could change views to Thumbnail view, but there’s a better option when you’re in Poster Wrap. Each number on [...]
