Sony VAIO Z-series VPCZ137GX

Sony VPCZ137GX a balance between mobility, ergonomics and performance is hard to beat. Not quite as light and as small as many competing ultraportables, but it offers 13.1-inch screen 1600 x 900, ergonomics and an integrated DVD burner is rare in this category. It's still smaller and lighter portable base for all applications 14 or 15 inches, too. Also looks great and is a fantastic player.
But VPCZ137GX - is not cheap - and Z series laptops in general. The cost is $ VPCZ137GX defeat of 2300, even the least expensive 13.1-inch Z-series drive almost $ 2,000, and there are configurations that range up to $ 3,700.

Remove Background using channel mask

There are so many methods to remove the background. One of them is to use masking. Here I will explain how to remove the background by masking method.
Open the photo we will edit. Prioritizing the photos that have a plain background because it is still the learning phase

• Click on layer that you want to mask

• Go to layer menu => tranparancy => add alpha channel

• Duplicate the layer by click layer menu => duplicate layer or you can using kerboard shortcut by pressing ctrl+shift+D. Give name to each layer so that you not confusion by right click on layer and than choose edit layer attributes. First layer by name "mask" and second layer by name "original".

Ubuntu Magic Lamp Effect 0 wave

The magic lamp effect is my favorite when it comes to minimizing windows, but there’s one problem with it, you cannot configure the “Magic Lamp Max Waves” to zero due to some copyright crap from apple (since they think they invented the effect or something). Fortunately there’s a cure for this, you can patch compiz to make the effect look something like this:

Ubuntu Animation using compiz

For those who like the animation certainly less comfortable if we just use ubuntu without a standard animation we can arrange it. Ubuntu has provided fisilitas so that we can manage the effects on compiz using compiz manager. To maximize the compiz we need to install some applications, among others:

sudo apt-get install compiz
sudo apt-get install compiz-plugins
sudo apt-get install compiz-gnome
sudo apt-get install compiz-core
sudo apt-get install emerald
sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-plugins-main
sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
sudo apt-get install fusion-icon
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Alternative Office Software That 100% Free

OpenOffice.org is a collection of programs for office purposes. The programs provided are word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and others. If we look at the programs office like microsoft product there are microsoft word, microsoft excel, microsoft powerpoint and others who require around $ 600, $ 700, $ 800 or more to buy it. While the product issued by openoffice.org is 100% free without any charges.

Openoffice.org is one of the open source program that covered by the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL), free software license which most used. Besides aiming to reduce the piracy, now open source programs are not inferior with paid programs, or even superior. such as openoffice product to presentation. This program has a variety of features, they are slides, presentation templates, animations and others which similar with Microsoft PowerPoint. Things that make openoffice superior than microsoft office product is all microsoft office file format can be read / opened properly by openoffice.

IGOS DwiWarna 1.0

IGOS DwiWarna is a distro for Indonesia for the diverse needs of users. Distro Linux operating system is equipped with a variety of packages or applications. IGOS DwiWarna can also be called by the name of dichromatic distributions. IGOS DwiWarna abbreviated as IDW.

IDW early version numbering using version 1.0 (V1.0) based on Fedora 8 (F8). IDW early version consisted of three CDs and two DVDs (a total of five media CD / DVD). IDW V1.0 consists of versions of the installer and livecd. Installer and livecd variant consists of:


1. IGOS DwiWarna Desktop 1.0 (CD installer)

Features :

• Kernel 2.6.23.9
• OpenOffice 2.3
• Firefox 2.0.0.10
• GNOME 2.2 Desktop Manager
• GIMP 2.4.2 graphics editor
• Pidgin 3.2
• Multimedia Player (Audio and Video), built-in MP3 player

Download Here : ftp://kambing.ui.edu/dwiwarna/iso/v10/DwiWarna_V10-Desktop.iso
2. IGOS DwiWarna 1.0 Server (CD installer)

Inkscape, Vector Graphics Application Try a free Worthy

Circulation of a large flow of graphic applications, whether original or pirated copy does not inhibit the steps developers to create graphical applications based on open source. In fact, the development of applications based on open source tend to be fast and ready to serve toughness established applications such as Adobe or Microsoft's future.

One of the few evidence-based application that successful open source applications exist amid an established hegemony is Inkscape. Inkscape is a graphics application capable of editing images in the form of vector graphics. Ability was the same as those owned by the application of an established range or Corel Draw Adobe Illustrator.

Adding GRUB 2 Background at Ubuntu

This is the case that I experienced when it wanted to beautify the Boot Options menu display, in linux is called GRUB. At 9:04 and above already using linux GRUB 2. Here, I'll give announcing how to add background on GRUB2. OK Let's get started ... : D

Open a terminal and run the command:

sudo aptitude install-splashimages grub2

After installation is complete open the folder filesystem> usr-> share-> images-> grub. You will see examples of these images. Select one and then copy the image file name (without extension .tga)

Restoring Grub2 After Installing Windows

Easy installation sequence for installing 2 operating system between Windows and Linux is to install Windows first and Linux because Linux is the next in charge of installing the Multi Boot Menu in the MBR (Master Boot Record). Discussion on Windows and Linux installations I will not explain here since a lot of tutorials in a virtual world that already explained about it. What I want to discuss is what if there is damage to the windows and forcing us to reinstall our windows. Will have to reinstall Linux as well? Hohoho there is no problem that there is no way out: D This is the case of my own experience. Previously there were two operating systems that I use is Windows XP and Ubuntu 10:04.