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• ScanSnap S1500 ADF Scanner in Linux

  May 09, 2012

  

  Man, this is a slick littler scanner! I run my own company and like many small businesses now-a-days, we run a paperless office. I had been using a cheap-o little flatbed scanner and soon found my stack of invoices and receipts waiting to be scanned had grown out of control.

  I picked up the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 ADF (automatic document feeder) scanner and was pleasantly suprised at it's small footprint and sexy aesthetics. But even better, it worked in Linux right out of the box. Within a few minutes the ScanSnap S1500 powered through a stack of wrinkled, creased, odd-sized receipts and saved them as a PDF in my Dropbox folder.

• Create Application Launchers in GNOME 3

  Dec 27, 2011

  I often need to create custom application launchers for games, my own shell scripts, or to launch programs with specific command-line options. As such, I have written Desktop Entry Editor to make it easy to create and edit user-defined application launchers.

  Application launchers are simple text files with a .desktop extension that conform to the Desktop Entry Specification. For user-defined application launchers, the ideal location to save these desktop entries is in ~/.local/share/applications.

• 3 Taskbar Options for GNOME 3.2

  Dec 18, 2011

  I am still using GNOME 3 and, to my suprise, I really like not having the taskbar. But, I know a lot of you do want a taskbar and so, here are 3 bottom panel taskbars that you can add to GNOME 3.2.

• Change Image with jQuery

  Sep 15, 2011

  How to use jQuery to swap an image when a thumbnail is clicked.

  This simple example uses a progressive enhancement technique in which links to full-size images are "hijacked" by Javascript code that replaces the main image on the page with the full size version of the thumbnail.

  You can see a working demo here: Change Image with jQuery

• Gedit as a Django IDE for Linux

  Sep 12, 2011

  Configuring gedit as a Django Text Editor in GNOME

  That's right, gedit, the default text editor in GNOME, is actually a pretty bad ass IDE for Django web development. To those who have not really explored gedit it looks much like "Notepad" at first glance. Do not be fooled. gedit is incredibly fast, efficient, and stable. That makes it a great editor. Pair a great text editor with the right plugins and you got yourself a clean, lightweight, simple IDE.