Category Archives: Softwares

Resize Magic – Resize image files and maintain quality

Most of the times when you’re online and uploading pictures to an online forum or while you’re blogging, you may find it necessary to resize the image so as to decrease the size of the image file. Here is one such software which beautifully resizes image files while maintaining the quality.

FSoft’s Resize Magic

The resize can be done by specifying the length and width of the image or the percentage of the image size. One can do a batch edit on a group of files as well.

Software can be downloaded as a standalone program or as a photoshop plugin from here. The standalone program is a freeware while the photoshop plugin is paid. Standalone program’s setup file is around 1MB and takes no time to install. Resize Magic is available for both Linux and Windows.
Some examples of the resizes can be found here.

Hope this helps you next time you find it necessary.

How to create amazingly creative facebook profile page?

It’s been a while since the launch of facebook’s new profile release and has been found a little hacker-easy but some creative and innovative exploited the new looks to create some amazingly cool facebook profile pages like this.

FB Creative

Creative Facebook Profile

These pages became so common but the trick was complicated. Users had to make proper measurements and do it. But not required anymore. Here’s a simple Web App that can do this for you.

FB Photo Magic

Here are the steps you need to follow.

Step 1: Go to www.fbphotomagic.com. Start Page Photo Magic Click on Start at the bottom of the page.

Step 2: Upload the picture you want to put on your profile. Upload the PictureStep 3: Adjust the window to fit the picture properly in your profile page. The first dropdown menu asks for the number of lines. It is the number of lines between your name and the tagged images section in your profile(these lines contain details like your birthdate, your location etc.). You can find the number of lines in your profile by simply going to your profile. Resize the frame Above image is the snapshot of step 3. Different shades are very intuitive. Adjust the frame to what you think fits right. Step 4: Click on Save button on the top right side of the window. You will be presented with two options. You can either directly download them or just use upload it directly to the facebook. Select the option to directly upload to facebook. Upload to FacebookWhen you click on “Upload to Facebook”, you will be asked to grant permission to the facebook page. Grant Permission on Facebook Step 5: Once you’re done with the above step, you will be presented this message. Final StepsThis step is pretty simple. you have to go to your facebook account, look for the new album created by FB Photo Magic. Go to the album and open the last photo in the album. Make it your profile image. Here’s the snapshot of where you can find the option.

Install Unity Qt (2D) on Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 using PPA

As we all know now, the next version of Ubuntu has a major change in its desktop environment from Gnome to Unity. It was only a little time ago when Unity Desktop was released for Ubuntu 10.10 users could’ve installed Unity Desktop by sudo apt-get install unity-desktop. But users who had poor graphics support had a hard time coping up with it and  most of them returned to GNome. But now there’s a solution as Unity Qt has been released which is the 2D version of the Unity Desktop having minimalist animations and 3D Effects. Unity Qt is lot faster than Unity 3D so I’m sure users are going to enjoy this.

Here’s a snapshot of it and it doesn’t look that different from the actual 3D Unity.

To install Unity-Qt open your terminal and execute the following instructions in the same order.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unity-2d-team/unity-2d-daily

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install unity-2d-default-settings

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Next time you log in, select Unity-Qt from the options of Environments.

Hope that helps.