Support a local online shop startup instead of making the rich’s belly bigger!

As the saying goes, “A craftsman is only as good as his tools,” and this holds true for any industry. Having the right tools is essential for getting the job done efficiently and effectively, and this is especially true for startups. In today’s digital age, there are plenty of online shops that offer hand tools, […]

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Blender – keep settings and add-ons between versions

This is something I encountered when I installed new Blender versions and I thought I can share my solution so others can use it too if they want. So with a new Blender version installation, everything – user settings, add-ons etc. – is reset to the default values, losing potentially hours or days of your […]

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Best decently priced laptops for video and 3D editing – 2023

I am currently heavily researching for a very good laptop that has a great balance between the price and the configuration and power. My budget for it is not very high, maybe let’s say around GBP 1000… So armed with all that very clear information, I started to research the huge ocean of offers out […]

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Ubuntu – easily take a snapshot and restore it with rsnapshot

I had to do this when I had a server setup with a lot of stuff, but it couldn’t be kept live for some time, so we tried to find a solution to backup and keep all the things for a future deployment without the need to go through all the painful installations and configurations. […]

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Change GIMP 2.10 Keyboards Shortcuts to Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts (Automated commands)

The GIMP 2.10 shortcuts are all stored in a single file that sits in the GIMP user config folder, called “menurc“.  In order to change them, you only need to replace that file. An important note is that the previous GIMP versions have a different path, which I am not covering here because anyway I […]

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Create WinPE boot disk with file explorer

Firstly, we need to create the WinPE disk itself. A good documentation from Microsoft about creating bootable Windows PE media: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/winpe-create-usb-bootable-drive?view=windows-10 Another website that instructs how to add the File Explorer to the image we already created: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2015/03/add-gui-file-explorer-windows-pe-environment/ Step 1. Firstly, we need to mount the image. This is done in the Deployment and Imaging […]

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Blender VSE – change sequencer channel/strip height

In Blender’s Video Sequence Editor, sometimes in the preview sequencer area (otherwise known as the Timeline), the strips’ height is very big, making it hard to navigate and to see things around. This happened randomly once and another time when I upgraded Blender to a new version. I find this issue very annoying personally, so […]

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WordPress – add a template sidebar in a child theme for the woocommerce shop page

WordPress has an extremely flexible structure, but sometimes it lacks some very fine options that one might need for some situations… This should work for any theme, but we are going to do it for the popular Understrap theme. The requirement is to have a sidebar for the Woocommerce main shop page that is different […]

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