How to re-size images through terminal [Quick Linux Tip]

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 3/27/2013 10:09:00 AM

'You often encounter this scenario where you need to re-size the images to specific sizes. For example, the chrome web store has specific guidelines that every extension or app should follow. Besides online tools and in-built application, you can do this through your Terminal.Yes, all you need to do is just use this command called convert and you are all set.convert -geometry <resolution> <old_file_name> <new_file_name>Just in case, here is an example for you to und(...)'

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Must have Android Apps with Rich Interface

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 2/27/2013 3:56:00 PM

'With Android beaming more and more apps, its time that we talk about some useful apps that might be missing from you Android device. Yeah before we start let me clarify that the selection of the applications is based on nothing but my experience. If you are still interested and have the zeal, go ahead!1. Solid Explorer I have tried few file managers before this one (E.g. ASTRO), but this one is a real deal. There are two versions of this application, but for now I am sticking to the(...)'

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3 Magical Mac Apps That You Should Start Using

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 1/14/2013 1:46:00 PM

'Over the period of time you might have switched between several platforms/OS and often settle with the best. Also, you might have run into a situation where you miss some of the pretty useful features from others. I had a similar experience when I switched to Mac and these applications are the answers for my problems.1. Afloat - Always on Top for Mac:If you are used to Linux, you must be addicted to this simple but super useful feature of keeping your windows on top o(...)'

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Hiding siblings of an element isn't that easy with CSS alone

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 12/23/2012 4:13:00 PM

'Yes, I was with you, under the same impression that it is damn easy to hide elements with CSS (alone!), until I ran into an issue during my latest project. Okay lets make this more clear by practical walk-through. Here is the sample block that I was experimenting on<div id="navigation"> <div id="nav-block-1">div1</div> <div id="nav-block-2">div2</div> This is a offer <hr/> <a href="#">Report</a></div>Now say we need to displ(...)'

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Better Search UX in Blogger Dynamic Views [Quick Tweak]

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 11/16/2012 6:59:00 PM

'I have been a stack overflow user over years and assume most of you are too. Stack Overflow understands that people are there to search content that might be longer the usual 200px and expands the  input area when ever the user focuses on the text area. Similar is the case for many blogs, people are there to find content, so why not we provide the same rich experience for the users. This minor CSS tweak will do the needful.For those who don't know, blogger provides an useful au(...)'

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How to split text files based on lines or bytes [Quick Linux Tip]

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 9/23/2012 4:55:00 PM

'Last week, I ran into this issue where I need to split a huge text file into separate files each with 100 lines. Looking for a solution, a quick Google showed me a command that helps me doing this right on my terminal without any additional softwares or applications. The command is named after its purpose, split.Lets call the large file you want to split as large-file.txt. Now open terminal and run this command.split large-file.txtThis is the simplest command that you can run, that (...)'

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Designing a CSS3 carrom board

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 8/25/2012 1:54:00 PM

'Carroms is one of those brilliant board games that is still prevalent across regions. Looking at the old board lying in the corner of my room, a sudden thought flashed and that became the seed for this experiment. I quickly searched my hard disk for the wooden textures and luckily found bunch of them and immediately started working on the design and measurements for my virtual Carrom board. The screen shot below shows you what we are going to create today. Don't feel shy, (...)'

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Alphabet Spinner with CSS3

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 7/29/2012 12:04:00 PM

'Well, you might have seen the Iphone's date picker which is an amazing scroll to select element. This is common across devices these days and Android in turn has similar UI elements for the users. Today, I was looking at the logo of Cartoon Network and decided to emulate the same in CSS3. You know, the logo of cartoon network is quite simple, laid out of white and black boxes with negative colors. That was not thrilling enough to make, so went a little further and added some spicy a(...)'

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Interesting behavior of CSS borders

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 7/15/2012 2:04:00 PM

'Last month, during my website re-design, I learnt a new CSS trick to use the border property of CSS to create a special hover effect. If you see the top navigation links of my home page you will notice a trapezium coming up from the bottom. Ain't that cool? Indeed, it's just by manipulating the border property of the nav links.  Today I decided to establish a design sync between my blog and the site, so trying out the same effect on link on my blog. To my surprise, it didn(...)'

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Create Mobile Version of Website - [How To]

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 6/10/2012 10:10:00 AM

'The number of mobile/smartphone users are increasing day by day exponentially. It is prime time that you have a mobile version of your website. This article explains you how to create a basic mobile version of a site and points to the resources that might help you in this process. Blogs are blessed: Yes, if you are looking for mobile version for your blog, you are in luck. Almost all the major blogging services, provide you an easy option for mobile blog. Blogger lets you choos(...)'

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Pure CSS Toggle Switches

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 6/3/2012 1:55:00 PM

'HTML5 and CSS3 are so evolved, that they are capable of simulating some of the event listeners by themselves and avoid the pain of writing Javascript. The advent of pseudo classes made this even more feasible. In this article you will see one of the beautiful use of pseudo classes in CSS3. I was looking for decent tutorial for styling the checkboxes and I landed on a page that explained the toggle switches concept with Javascript/ Jquery. Further googling landed me on this amazing t(...)'

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Enhance blogger dynamic views with custom CSS.

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 5/20/2012 11:25:00 AM

'If you are using blogger's dynamic views and looking for some decent tips for customizing your template, this small article will help you a bit. By now, you must have come across the template customizer by blogger which provides almost everything that you want as a beginner. If you haven't heard of this neat feature, you need to rush yourselves to template view of your blog and hit the customize button and thats it you can see the playground. Before you proceed further let me tell y(...)'

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Chrome to Mobile - A Built-In feature in Chrome Canary!

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 4/6/2012 5:23:00 AM

'Yet another reason to use Google Chrome. Chrome canary version has been amazing so far and now it brings you another feature that would send pages between your devices on the fly. If you are a fan of Chrome to Phone, a chrome extension, this will make you and your chrome lighter. The good part is that this detects all the devices under your account and lets you send the files/pages directly to your devices. It also provides an option to send the whole copy for offline viewing.&(...)'

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Create Stunning Presentations Using Impress.js - [How To]

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 3/25/2012 9:03:00 AM

'Ever wondered how you can create a presentation that amuses your audience, in the absence of Microsoft Powerpoint - by far the best in this. If so, you are in luck and this article will help you understand and create a presentation that relies on your web browser alone. Before we start, let me introduce to a basic presentation tutorial, I wrote a couple of quarters back - Create Slides with HTML5 - [How To], which explains how to create slides by using some basic javascript and HTML(...)'

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Create Google Chrome theme in less than 2 min

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 3/23/2012 4:31:00 PM

'Google Chrome known for its speed, is also known for wide range of themes. Before getting started lets start with a quick question. How often you change your chrome theme and how often you search for themes? If the answer is close to almost every week, you are in luck as this article might help you finding the right theme for you chrome.Google came up with a new and easiest way of creating themes from your own images and designs. So, pain of searching the theme is no longer valid as(...)'

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Five Useful Commands in Vi Editor

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 2/26/2012 4:20:00 PM

'I know there are plenty of editors in place for Linux, but at times you use 'vi' editor which has minimal support through UI. You need to know few basic commands in vi apart from open, save, quit functions for a file. In this article, I am documenting few commands that I found useful for the starters on the Vi. So, lets get started.1. Search and Replace: The obvious and the most useful. You can find any word in your file just by typing slash ('/' without quotes) or even wi(...)'

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Basic and Useful Plugins for gEdit

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 1/29/2012 5:00:00 PM

'If you are starting on Linux and getting used to gedit, you should try installing the basic official plugins which will make you love the gedit even more. To start, how about python console in the editor? Autocomplete the words you type in? You can have all of these in gedit. Here are the steps.Open Terminal.Run sudo apt-get install gedit-pluginsNow open to gedit and go to preferences.In the plugins tab, you can find all new plugins.Just select what ever you want and have fun.I woul(...)'

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Pangrams and Python Way

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 1/15/2012 5:56:00 PM

''Lorem Ipsum' - the same old content used to fill up the templates, this is what you and I know till today. This kind of content has a name that I never knew, if you are one of those who don't know anything about pangrams, this post is for you.While browsing through the web fonts of Google, I was expecting the same world sentence - "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", which has all the letters, but to my surprise there is a new sentence or rather p(...)'

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CES 2012 - A touch of Future.

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 1/9/2012 6:39:00 PM

'Today, I am trying a new kind of live blogging, just based on the hash tags for CES both in twitter as well as Google plus. Why am I doing this? I know its tough to find the right links at the right time especially in these situations where the spam bots kick in spamming half the hash tags and gain control over the content. BTW, for those who don't know what is CES, it is called Consumer Electronics Show.Some of those launches that attracted me:Intel partnered with Nuance: This(...)'

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Google's Way of Creating Magic with Websites

Author : Srikanth Rayabhagi      Blog : Nerds To Geeks      Date : 1/8/2012 1:17:00 PM

'We all know Google is good at creating stuff that make netizens go crazy and we do know that Google has several easter eggs planted in its search engine (my favorites - Recursion, Answer to Life Universe and Everything) to excite the users when they search those. Now Google seems to be coming up with newer ways to amuse its audience. They started creating websites that have some hidden easter eggs.Confused? Let me get into the details.Point your browser(...)'

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