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Sync Two Drives with Jenkins

February 1, 2015 2:00 pm Leave your thoughts

Most of us know that Jenkins is an awesome continuous integration tool, however it’s also a great generic task runner. In my case, photography is one of my serious interests too, I have hundreds of gigabytes of RAW images over the years and it’s my habit to keep it in... View Article


Secure Your Private Stuff Online

September 5, 2014 7:03 am Leave your thoughts

In the past couple days, the internet and media has been swamped with news about leaked celebrity nude photos, especially Jennifer Lawrence and few other actresses. This proves there are a couple problems in our society these days: invasion of privacy is getting more frequent, ignorance to our own personal... View Article


Disable Mouse Delay Between Monitors on Ubuntu

April 20, 2013 12:36 pm Leave your thoughts

So, a quick post to help those out there getting this issue. Just then my Ubuntu installation updates and it seems there is a mouse delay when moving the cursor between monitors (I use 2 monitors). I have no idea why this functionality even exist as it’s really annoying. Anyway,... View Article


Raspberry Pi: Faster and Lighter Web Browsing with Luakit

April 2, 2013 10:31 pm 4 Comments

So enter Luakit. An extremely lightweight and highly configurable web browser. It is based on webkit and GTK+. Now, as lean and mean Luakit can be, its user-friendliness can’t be rated as high. Therefore I have created this guide to help installing Luakit and configuring some options that I think will... View Article


8 Best Places to Find Free Stock Images

March 21, 2013 8:54 am 3 Comments

Sourcing great images when building websites are no easy matter, sometimes they are hard to find and are expensive, but it doesn’t have to be that way. When building a product for ourselves or client we want to get it out quickly with the best quality graphics at the lowest... View Article


Managing Proxy Authentication and Exclusion List

February 28, 2013 10:45 pm Leave your thoughts

A lot of companies have implemented firewalls and closed off direct external internet access for security reasons. This results in developers going through proxy servers (internal to the company) in order to access external websites. Normally, these proxy server can be configured through the OS global configuration or through individual... View Article


Moving notifications bubble on Ubuntu

February 7, 2013 10:17 pm Leave your thoughts

I use Ubuntu pretty much for everything at work with dual monitor configuration. The one gripe that I had was notifications appearing on the far top right hand side of my secondary monitor (on the right…), this caused missing the notifications. Also I hated the colours of the bubble. To... View Article