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I had a few times need to create and/or edit photo, but I wasnt on my computer, on known system, once it was at Zurich’s airport.
So, what do you do? If you have Adobe’s Photoshop Express online account, nothing to worry. If you just need to do some quick edit, but complex enough that Microsoft’s Paint cannot do we have solution.

At Pixlr (click for the app), we have an online and completely free Photoshop-like application. Not so complex as real Photoshop, but far better then majority of free image editing applications (save Gimp and Krita).
It is capable of saving your image as JPEG, PNG and BMP formats which you download immediately to your machine.
Working with Pixlr is a breeze. It’s worth checking out.
http://pixlr.com/app/

Srbijo, sram te bilo!

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(This article is a translation and adaptation of one text that was written in portuguese language that I found here.)

I understand problems passing from Windows to Linux which was declared by one individual. I felt I should experiment Windows too, since all of my friends are telling me all the time how great it is.

I went to the Microsoft site to download it, but it was not available. I was frustrated because I spent quite a time uselessly trying to find a download link, so I decided to ask my friend and he told me where I can buy it.

I took my car and drove myself to the mall, where I found a shop that sells software. I asked the seller for a windows OS and he asked me which version I want.
- “I want the most complete distribution”, I said proudly. Read more…

I had to take some parts of the old project to complete deadline for the new project I was working on. One of the components that I used had a ProgressBar, that worked like a charm.

Before…

I had to load some video clip from the net, and show it’s loading progress in accurate measure of bytes, as well as percents and to have it visually as a progress bar. Well, OK, that is not a problem, since I was picking progressEvent which has bytesLoaded and bytesTotal. Those values were filled correctly and on my surprise, progressBar haven’t been updated as the event was fired.

What the hack? This thing worked.

After extensive investigation, I realized that we have changed flash player from 9.x to 10.x. Now, many of the things work in a different way. ProgressBar component is one of it.  Before, you could omit filling the “mode” property, or you could set ti to manual:  mode=”manual”

Now this doesn’t work. you must fill it, and fill it with proper constant:

mode=”{ProgressBarMode.MANUAL}”

Now, it worked as it was before.

Ovaj tekst je baziran na blogu mog prijatelja Kena Starksa. Nije prevod, niti moj proizvod. Prepricacu svojim recima sta tamo pise – izvor: http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/05/thin-line-between-victim-and-idiot.html. Takodje, izvinjavam se zbog nedostatka srpskih karaktera. Na poslu sam dobio Mac i imam problem sa instalacijom srpske tastature.

Idiot… teska rec. Reci to nekom je u najmanju ruku ne kulturno. Medjutim, ne kulturno je stalno cimati prijatelja da vam popravi kompjuter. Obicno, kompjuter kome treba “popravka” uopste nije pokvaren fizicki, nego je sistem pun virusa, registar prepun djubreta i jednostavno ne funkcionise. Neki ljudi stvarno nemaju stida. Svako malo zvrckaju da im se “sredi” kompjuter. Dosta vise! Aman!

Razumem kad je neko zrtva. Tu hocu da pomognem, ali kad je neko idiot, e tu necu! Razlika postoji, tanka, ali postoji. Read more…

It came a time when I could not avoid Mac at my work. Finally, they bring a Mac and ordered me to use it. Being a linux user, thought came to my mind “thank God it’s not windows”.

Ok, I got my new Mac machine, want it or not, I have to use it. At first glimpse, it is nice. Interface looks like Gnome (not my favorite), but it has nice silverish theme. Application just works. Installation of new applications is somewhere between windows’ way and linux’s way:
- You need to find it (window’s way)
- Copy it to application folder (neither windows nor linux way)
- No restart needed (Linux way – and all steps can be made from command line as well)

That is little odd, because MacOSX is based on FreeBSD or some similar Unix which one can take code, change it, claim it and close it.

What can I say… Applications just work. Configuring VPN (which I had a bit of trouble in Linux) is fool-proof. Mac works on “autopilot” under the hood. Applications are nice, well designed and full of features. Swell.

Then came initial nightmare: Shortcuts. Everything is completely different than windows and linux. Editing text shortcuts are different also. When I press END button, it should go to the end of line. Here goes to the end of document and end of line is COMMAND + ->. Very annoying. However, I will get used to it in few days. I was already prepared for initial frustrations. Mac is not Linux, and difference should be appreciated.

However, one thing I didn’t like. You must use your Mac in a way that Apple decided it should be used. If you just want something different, well, you can’t.
You cannot change the place of the menu, you cannot have taskbar, you cannot place another panel on the desktop, you cannot rotate icons, you cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot… whatever you think of changing, you cannot do it. It simply must look that way.

Bottom line:
Mac is wonderful OS where I can do any job that I want, cannot change anything I want about how things are done, and generally feels like my freedom was taken away.
Apart from that, it’s absolutely lovely.

P.S. All negative aspects of MacOSX, are about a thousand times better than in any version of Microsoft Windows I have used so far (used it all save 3.11 and w7).