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Editor: In an attempt to answer the most frequently asked question we get—"Which solution is the best?"—today we're launching a new feature series called the Hive Five. Once a week we'll put out a call for contenders looking for the best solution to a certain problem, where YOU tell us your favorite tools to get a job done. A day later, we'll report back with the top five recommendations and give you a chance to vote on which is best.
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The open-source-friendly folks at the FOSSwire blog have posted a PDF "Ubuntu Cheat Sheet," covering the basic terminal commands one might have to use and, just as importantly, naming important programs and packages so you don't end up deleting or messing with something that'll cause headaches down the line. WIth the release of Hardy Heron one day away, adventurous newcomers might want to keep FOSSwire's cheat sheet printed and handy for reference.
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Tim from the Daily Cup of Tech weblog has transitioned to an almost all BitTorrent TV diet, but the resulting disorganization of files left him with an unsettled stomach. He prefers to archive everything he downloads to a system of folders, but while some video files he downloads hit his hard drive as plain AVI files, others are archived RARs, and manually organizing it all became to much of a hassle. The solution: a saucy Windows batch script that automatically extracts RARs and sends all of his files off to the proper, well-organized folders. If you've got your own method of automating your file organization, let's hear about it in the comments.
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Photography web site Photojojo details how to get crisp, beautiful prints from your digital photos with Photoshop's Unsharp Mask. What's the point of sharpening, you ask? Digital cameras have a fixed grid of pixels, each of which can only capture one color or shade at a time. Say you take a picture that has a sharp edge between black and white... The single pixel that records that hairline edge can only record one color, so it renders it as gray. What we think of as sharpness is actually the contrast we see between different colors. A quick transition from black to white looks sharp. A gradual transition read more »
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