Monday, July 23, 2012

How to remove EXIF data from Images in Linux

Ubuntu Linux

Install jhead:
sudo apt-get install jhead

To see all the extra data that is stored in the JPG, run this:
jhead -v FILE.jpg

To remove the extra data such as "geo-tagging(location data)", your name and the type of phone or camera that look the picture, run this command on the image:
jhead -purejpg FILE.jpg


Mac OS X

Install exiftool:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/install.html

To see all the extra data that is stored in the JPG, run this:
exiftool -v FILE.jpg

To remove the extra data such as "geo-tagging(location data)", your name and the type of phone or camera that look the picture, run this command on the image:
exiftool -all= FILE.jpg




Thursday, July 19, 2012

How to take screenshots on your Android Phone

How to take screenshots with Android 4.0(Ice Cream Sandwich)

Simply hit these buttons at the same time:

Power Button + Volume Down


Wednesday, July 11, 2012

How to fix random Youtube sound glitch in Ubuntu

How to fix Adobe Flash Player on Youtube

It seems that sometimes when I upgrade my Abode Flash Player, both of my web browsers, Firefox and Chrome, seem to have their flash player's play obscure videos. In Chrome, the flash videos on Youtube are "fast-forwarded" and in Firefox, they are very choppy and unbearable to watch.

Try Fix 1:
System Settings > Sound > Hardware Tab > Profile > Select "Off" and then Turn it back to its previous setting.

Try Fix 2:
sudo apt-get install pavucontrol
And then run "PulseAudio Volume Control" and repeat the steps in "Fix 1".

Saturday, July 7, 2012

How to Extract a .7z file in Linux

How to extract a .7z files

To install the packages:
sudo apt-get install p7zip


In Linux, when you would like to extract a ".7z" file, you need to open your terminal and type this in:
7za e FILE.7z

How to install Microsoft Fonts for LibreOffice on Ubuntu

How to install Microsoft fonts

When installing Ubuntu, it may not come with Microsoft Fonts such as "New Times Roman" and "Verdana". Therefore, Ubuntu applications such as LibreOffice will not have them.



To install them:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Thursday, July 5, 2012

How to use crontabs in Linux

How to create a crontab

Open your terminal and run:

crontab -e
This will be for your user. 

Usually this should open up your crontab file in nano. Today, we will run our crontab to execute hourly:
0 * * * * /bin/sh /PATH/TO/SCRIPT
Now, this runs hourly shell scripts(/bin/sh).

 If you would like to run other scripts, obviously you simply change the "/bin/sh" to whatever you would like(python, perl, bash, etc...).

minute 0-59
hour 0-23
day 1-31
month 1-12
day-of-week 0-7 (0/7 Sunday, 1 = Monday, 2 = Tuesday, etc...)
command-line the command to execute

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

How to Extract a Tar Ball on Linux

How to extract a Tar Ball in Linux

In Linux, when you would like to extract a "tar.gz" file, you need to open your terminal and type this in:

tar -zxvf FILE.tar.gz

tar xvjf FILE.tar.bz2

How to install the Android SDK

How to install the Android SDK

First, install Eclipse here.

After installing Eclipse, install the Android ADT plugin for Eclipse:
 - Click on Help > Then click on
 - Install New Software Copy and paste this and click "Add":
https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
 - Click "OK"

Eclipse will ask you to restart. After you restart, the Android ADT plugin will ask you to either download and install the Android SDK for you or you can do it yourself.

If you are using an existing SDK or downloading it yourself:

Download the SDK:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

The file should look like:

android-sdk_r20-linux.tgz

Extract the file to your /home/USER directory by either double clicking on the file or command line:

tar -zxvf android-sdk_r20-linux.tgz
Next you will go into Eclipse and use the Android ADT plugin to use with the /home/USER/android-sdk that you have extracted.

Installing Android Versions

 - Go to Window > then click on Android SDK Manager

 From here, you can select the Android Packages that you would like.