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Nice UI for Netbeans

Daniel Selinger — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:23:51 +0000

As Netbeans under Linux (Ubuntu) is ugly as hell, I’ve searched for solutions.
This post gives some directions: http://javahowto.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-customize-netbeans-look-and-feel.html & here.
The best option in my opinion is to start Netbeans with this command:
netbeans --laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel
Next thing is to get an acceptable docky icon for the IDE…

//edit 160611:
Found a solution on launchpad (see #7 & #10). It works for AWN :)

Customize Firefox Tabs

Daniel Selinger — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:17:48 +0000

Uh yeah! If you want to change the colors and stuff in your Firefox browser search for a file called “userchrome.css”.
The file should be in the “chrome” directory in your Firefox profile directory.

On Ubuntu it’s in “home/[user]/.mozilla/firefox/[...]/chrome”

Facebook Share: Custom title & description

Daniel Selinger — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:42:22 +0000

Thanx to Drew on Stackoverflow I now know how to do this. Take a look: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2950189/facebook-share-doesnt-show-my-description-or-my-thumbnail

Manipulate SWFs via JS

Daniel Selinger — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:35:44 +0000

After some searching I finally found a link to a site with the SWF-JS attributes on the swfobject-page.

HTH -> Flash JS Attributes

Create multipage PDF under Linux in one line

Daniel Selinger — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:21:49 +0000

This will be the start of my “Things I’m to lazy to remember” series.

As a freelance guy on a Linux-Box sooner or later you will have the need to create multipage PDFs (in my case invoices scanned by xsane).
So, how? No prob. On my distri (Ubuntu) it’s fairly simple:

gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf in1.pdf in2.pdf

Using Imagemagick it’s even easier and you don’t need PDFs (but you have to tune the quality):

convert *.jpg myPDF.pdf

For the record, I got those hints from the always helpful Ubuntu-Forums ;)