Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Strip HTML entities with Postable

Postable is a great little page for translating HTML code in your text into non-interpretable characters so that you can easily blog about code without parts of it disappearing because it gets interpreted as HTML tags.
Just enter the code snippet into the field. Press Make it friendly and copy/paste the result into your blog.
Great! :)

http://www.elliotswan.com/postable/

Note: It is run through PHP, so no guarantees that your text isn't stored somewhere. But then again, you're about to blog it right?

Sources: http://www.elliotswan.com/2006/03/24/allow-me-to-introduce-you-to-my-new-little-app-postable/

Linux command to take screenshot

On newer versions of KDE when you press the PrintScreen button, a dialog pops up asking you if you want to copy or save a screenshot.

You can also do screenshots from Gimp: Open Gimp, select File -> Create -> Screen Shot...

To be cool or on older versions of Linux you might want to be able to take screen shot using a command line terminal (virtual terminal, you still need to be in X Windows).

Enter the following command:
import -window root <location to put image>
e.g.
import -window root ~/screenshot.jpg

So then you can easily press Alt + F2, enter the command above. Then you won't get the terminal window in your screenshot.
On my system, once you have done so once, the next time you start entering the text it autocompletes.

Note: You need ImageMagick installed as import is included in that package.

Source: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/newbie/10213-print-screen-available-linux.html