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Terry’s Photoshop Show #1 – Channel Luminosity Masks Tutorial
I’ve begun a regular series on Photoshop Tricks, and will post the videos here as well. Join the conversation on Google+ or follow the series at my YouTube channel.
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3 Things ExpressionEngine can do that WordPress simply cannot
I’m a programmer who uses the ExpressionEngine CMS to run some pretty data-intensive websites. Data intensive! WordPress is a great platform, don’t get me wrong. (This page and most of my other personal pages are all WordPress sites.) But if you’ve got data, you want something like ExpressionEngine. Here’s why. If/Then statements. Anywhere on any…
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How to get ChrUbuntu and Crouton working together at the same time on a Chromebook
So, lately I’ve been doing checks on both ChrUbuntu AND crouton installations, and had to figure out how to have them both work together. So, here is the step-by-step, though I send you to some other locations to get the full installation instructions for those two. 1) Save anything you need to have backed up…
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Create Shortcut Aliases to Easily Switch Between Chrome OS and ChrUbuntu Linux on a Chromebook
After completing these steps you will be able to switch to ChrUbuntu from Chrome OS by simply entering the command ubuntu in the terminal. You will be able to switch to Chrome OS from ChrUbuntu by entering the command chromeos in the terminal. 1. Install ChrUbuntu using the instructions here or at the one script…
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Copy and Paste “Crouton Linux on Chromebook” Commands
We have several targets available already with crouton: Unity, KDE, XFCE, e17, gnome, cinnamon, LXDE, X11, CLI-extra, core and XBMC so far, with directions to put in Awesome from X11 and even KXStudio from KDE as explained in the Wiki (Intel-only for KXStudio). https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/tree/master/targets Also, each can have the Chrome browser automatically install if it…
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My first tape recorders
I got into recording at a very early age – 10 years old, to be exact! My mom bought my brother and me a “shared” present from the Sears catalog – a reel-to-reel tape deck! Here is a picture of the catalog entry from the 1962 Sears Christmas Catalog of that item, the “Electronic Tape…
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Moodle Server Setup (also Joomla via Joomdle) on Amazon EC2 and GoDaddy
Amazon EC2 MoodleServer The first part of this is largely a composite of two wiki articles at the Moodle.org Wiki started separately by Jamie Pratt and Brian Lockwood that taken together finally explained everything I had to do in order to get Moodle working on an Amazon EC2 server: http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Installation_Guide_for_Installing_on_Amazon_EC2 http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Amazon_EC2_Cloud_Services_Installation Rent an…
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Positioning Content Precisely using CSS
In the Headway grid layout system, blocks align at their top margins to sit together in a row – taking advantage of the CSS section-based layout system. This is a very good thing. However, it means that if two items are in close proximity in the grid, but one under another, the lower block item…
