At least once a year, I had to re-submit the W8-BEN form to some of ads network company in US, and sometimes I forgot which column or row I had to fill. Friends from Jisportal had a nice tutorial on it, just download this image file and fill the form.

Credit goes to Jisportal

Hehehe, just a quick note about my little useful script. I have to write it here, so if I forget the step I can refer to this post. Here we go the step-by-step:

• install apache2, php5, php5imagick, imagemagick
• change folder permission by typing sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/auto
• reboot apache services by typing sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Done!

Ok, now you already become an internet addict, read more and learn more from millions of websites. Do you already know, that you can make a more efficient search in Google? Using double quotes, minus sign, filetype:, define:, currency converter, calculator. etc. Take a look at this video, and start making a better search!

After downgrading from Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Intrepid Ibex to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, as usual I can’t run my liferea feed reader. The solution actually is very simple, just remove liferea configuration files on /home/yourname/.liferea

But the problem arised when you already have a bunch of feed list on your liferea, you don’t want to add them again, won’t you? It must hard to remember and hard to do. The tricks is simple, just backup your feed list. Here is the quick tutorial.

• Step 1: Open your terminal (console)
• Step 2: Go to your .liferea folder by typing “cd .liferea” on your console
• Step 3: Copy feedlist.opml file to your Desktop by typing “cp feedlist.opml /home/yourpc/Desktop/”
• Step 4: Remove your .liferea folder by typing “rm -r .liferea”
• Step 5: Open your liferea, then go to Subscriptions > Import Feed List or by pressing Ctrol+O
• Step 6: Point to your previously feedlist.opml file then Import
• Step 7: Done

This tutorial is for emergency only, from now on you should regularly backup/export your feed list (if you think rss feed reader is important as I am). Happy feeding…

I’ve been realized that Linux is so powerful to help my jobs done. For example converting jpg or jpeg files into .pdf files. After searching in Google, I found that I can convert all of my jpg and jpeg files into pdf just using console! Of course, there are many alternatives to convert such files, such as using GUI apps, Gimp and OpenOffice can do that. But I still prefer using console (terminal) because of it’s simplicity. Want to know how? Here we go:

Step 1: Make sure you have imagemagick package installed in your Linux distro.
Step 2: Open your favorite console, go to your jpeg directory.
Step 3: Type convert yourjpgfiles.jpg yournewfile.pdf

You can use wildcards or “*” to convert mass jpg files into single pdf file. That’s it, you already done converting .jpg files into .pdf. Happy converting!

If you still confused with this tutorial, just drop me a comment, and I will help you.