In this clip I am going to add a simple text logo/watermark, (it could just as easily be a graphic), to iMovie 9.0.2 quickly and painlessly. And WITHOUT getting the blacked-out box over your logo. The steps are fairly simple: Load your iMovie project Create an alpha, (transparent), Portable Network Graphics image in your favorite…
Continue ReadingI recently experienced an issue where I wanted to change the extension on multiple jpeg files in a directory to have uniform case. This particular gallery directory had several hundred files and some were .JPG while others were .jpg. A simple shell command can be used to perform renaming of all files to the extension…
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I often find myself looking to a specific string of text within multiple directories and files. Grep makes this an easy task. An almost daily use for me is searching a directory, (and all it’s sub-directories), for a string when working with some outdated theme or style on a web-server. This example: $ grep -r…
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On one site I had an issue where images of various (large) size were being posted by the user, causing the selected theme to display the image over/under other parts of the theme, such as sidebar widgets. To resolve this issue, I simply opened up my favorite editor, (nano), and added the following CSS to…
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