Want a simple, automated and graphical way to rip cds and create FLAC, Ogg, Mp3s and other formats? Read on. Of course, we assume that you are using Ubuntu for this tutorial because heck – is there anything else? I was reprimanded and dragged through the coals and beaten like a rented mule the other day by a blond Ubuntu…
Author: justadminnit
How to Stamp PDF Documents in 10 Easy Steps
Need to stamp a PDF with a ‘confidential’ stamp (or any other stamp?) for FREE? Not only is this free but it’s freedom software as well. You may have already read my tutorial about how to watermark and stamp documents using PDF chain. This turned out to be an amazing tool for doing a bunch of PDFs and pages with…
Brainless CD Ripping With Ubuntu
IMPORTANT: This post has been replaced by this post: http://wayneoutthere.com/better-brainless-ubuntu/ This post now remains just a flicker in the memories of those who read it, a historical treasure of things that were, if you will. If you like doing things the harder way, please feel free! Easy audio CD Ripping in Ubuntu? How about: 1) Open CD Tray 2)…
How to Gauge your Christian Life
It’s a fact that there are just a few lines to carve into your gravestone or fit into your obituary in the back of your local newspaper. So what would it say about you? What would you hope it would say about you? As a Christian (I prefer the term ‘disciple’ and ‘believer’ so we’ll be switching effective now, by…
Why Pay for an Accountant When No Legal Duty of Loyalty?
That first page called ‘Notice to Reader’ that comes with your accounting stuff would be better named “Don’t look at me if you get sued for your numbers” because even if you pay an accountant and they screw it up, that page washes away all their liability. One day last year, I found myself stuck in a Canada Revenue Agency…
What Happened to the Salty Pillar Witness in Genesis 19?
If Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back, what happened to the witness who saw it? When I read my Bible sometimes stuff really comes alive and I’m right there in the situation. In this particular case, in Genesis 19, I was running away from Sodom and Gomorrah just before fireballs from heaven rained down…
How to Change “My Location” in Kijiji
“My location” setting wrong on Kijiji? Trying to post in an area but you can’t find how to change to that area? The solution is so hard, yet so easy at the same time! 🙁 1. Confirm you’re logged into the correct account (lol?) and your ‘my location’ is wrong. 2. Click the big fat Kijiji icon top left 3.…
McDonalds Food in Your Stomach: Pure Nastiness
If you regularly go to McDonalds, you may change your habit if you watch this video simulating a cheeseburger in stomache acid. Gross!! However, it should be stated in fairness to any company that the same results may occur if you put *any* food into straight hydrocloric acid – I don’t know. Since I haven’t done this test with a…
Great Tutorial on Difference Between and Usage of i.e. and e.g.
This tutorial written over at wikihow.com is an absolutely amazingly clear lesson about how to use i.e. and e.g. correctly. It seems as though my school system never taught me about these two bad boys and life was too busy to bother so I always defaulted to ‘eg’. Turns out I was wrong to do so and probably looked a…
Licensed to Fail
In order to get your license to succeed, you must first get your license to fail from an accredited school of hard knocks. I used to look at my seemingly endless streams of failures, false starts, half successes and extrinsic accomplisments as ‘bad things’. I considered them all proof that I was unable to succeed and even that perhaps God…