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How to install ZSH on CentOS

ZSH it is a popular Unix shell, with some features that you maybe will not found in Bash. These are the step that you need to follow to ZSH install on your CentOS: * Make sure that the command chsh is available in your system if you don't have it, the

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Update NPM when NVM was installed using chocolatey on Windows

Chocolatey is used frequently to install this kind of utilities but sometimes it could come with problems. NVM is a tool to install different versions of Node.js and it is very useful for developers because it is very simple to work with different versions, but NVM was intended to

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Recovering GRUB in UEFI boot on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

Modern computers with UEFI are a pain when you are installing a system different from windows and is harder if you want a double boot. Last week I installed Linux Mint on my laptop that already has Windows. If you didn't know Linux Mint is a distribution based on Ubuntu

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How to install Doom Emacs

Doom-Emacs is a configuration for the people who like VIM but want to use Emacs. I am been using Doom Emacs for a couple months now and I am happy with some of the features. Doom-Emacs is not the most famous configuration for Emacs, the number one is SpaceEmacs. You

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How to install FFmpeg on Windows

FFmpeg is a free software, and a multi-platform solution for video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. It is a terminal software, but there are graphical options like QwinFF, Avanti, FFmpegYAG or Axiom. This time I will show you how you can install this software on Windows. Intallation Download

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Can't upgrade Ghost after a Node.js upgrade

Since couple weeks I was trying to update ghost to the latest version, but I was getting the same error, I thought it was a bug in Ghost-cli or from dependencies, but I was wrong. The error that I am talking is this one: Debug Information: OS: Ubuntu, v16.04

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Looking the fastest DNS with Namebench (Google, OpenDNS, CloudFlare)

I will explain very quickly what is a Domain Name System (DNS) before to start with this tutorial. A DNS is a Networking service that converts IP addresses to domain names, for example, if you enter this IP address in your browser https://172.217.2.78 it redirects to

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Slack a dark theme with Tomorrow Night colors [Discontinued]

Discontinued Slack now includes a dark theme, this theme is discontinued. Today, I want to share my theme for Slack, this is a dark theme based on colors from the Tomorrow Night scheme and inspired in my current VScode setup. Something important before continues talking about the theme, is that

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Node.js not found on Linux enviroment

If you are getting the same error like me trying installing something with node, I will show you two solutions for this: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory The problem is the system is looking for the wrong node.js executable (/usr/bin/node) when probably you

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Working with 7zip on Mac

I am trying to get a good compression and 7z offers more ratio compression than other formats like zip or rar but on slower time. So today I compressed a folder with more than 4,000 files mostly photos and videos just to compare zip with 7z the difference was

macOS

How to search files or directories on Mac using the command locate

The command locate is present in the Unix system, and its functionality is search files or directories in our system, it uses a database so after we update the database the search is very fast. These are the steps to use locate on Mac: Update the database We need to

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How to create a bootable Windows 10 USB on Mac

The last release of Mac OS doesn't have the option to create a bootable USB from Bootcamp like previous versions, and it is a problem because that require uses other tools. I am updating this post today Dec 12, 2018. The reason is that I was only using UNetbootin to

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Import FLAC audio files to Adobe Premiere Pro

I bought today a music collection and the audio files are .flac format, Adobe Premiere doesn't support .ogg and .flac formats, so a plug-in is needed in order to import these formats. AdobeOgg It is a plug-in Adobe Premiere, is not a new project is from 2015, but it does

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Installing applications on Mac like Linux with Homebrew

Homebrew is a package manager something similar that you can found on Linux distributions. If you see in my previous posts, I used Homebrew to install my applications, and I used it because is easy to use and keeps applications updated. If you don't have Homebrew installed it is easy

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How to install Prezto globally for all users on Mac

Prezto is a set of configurations for your ZSH shell. Prezto is simple and easy to expand to add new functionalities and features. This project did not receive updates for a long time but was retaken thanks to the help of other users on Github. Now I will explain to

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How to install VMware Tools in an Ubuntu virtual machine

I'm writing this tutorial because it is different to the official documentation which still valid if you want to install VMware Tools using the old process and compile the modules, something similar to install the VirtualBox guest additions. Why is important install the VMware Tools? You are getting these features

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How to integrate FancyBox 3 on Ghost

If you want to add a lightbox effect to your images, FancyBox is a jQuery library that you can use to display images, videos and more, is customizable and easy to use. The Download link is available in the FancyBox website and Github. To install this library on Ghost we

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How to enable the Public API on Ghost

The API is not something new on Ghost, it appears for the first time in the version 0.7.2 but it still in beta with other features, this means is not complete yet, and we expect to see more endpoints in the future. The APIs are helpful when you

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How to add pagination to Ghost using Javascript

One of the things that are nice to have on a blog is an easy navigation; Ghost provides two buttons to go to the previous post and another for go to the newest post, but it doesn't have pagination by default. So I decided to use some variables that Ghost

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How to resize images on Ghost

Resize images is a basic functionality, but Ghost is a young platform and currently is a feature that is missing. The Ghost editor to write articles use Markdown but the options to resize an image doesn't work on Ghost, so there are a workaround and is use the HTML tag.

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How to use Amazon S3 storage on Ghost

The idea to use Amazon S3 is to store all the images on it instead of storing them locally. Or in other words, the new images are going to be stored on Amazon S3 and not /content/images. Requierements 1. You need to create a bucket in the Console if

macOS

3 ways to take a screenshot without the shadow on Mac

1. Using selection Shift + Control + 4 + Space, now you can drag the cursor and select the specific are that you want to take the screenshot. 2. Using command screencapture in the terminal On OS X we can open the terminal and use the command screencapture to take screenshots the command

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Mac Spotlight and re-index

Spotlight which is a tool to search a lot of things on our computer and the Internet, and I use it frequently to open applications is useful but it has a price (index content require use your computer resources) if you have enabled all the options and by default are

Git

How to sync a branch with the original repository in Github

There are not an option to sync the forks with the original repository in the GitHub website so you can sync the branch in 2 ways, one is using the desktop app, and another is using the terminal which I will explain in this article. Steps: In the forked repository,

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Install Ubuntu on Odroid XU4 using Mac

Download The first thing you have to do is download the img file, you can download the last Ubuntu version for Odroid on the Odroid Wiki . There are 2 versions one with mate desktop and another minimal installation (the minimal doesn't install a desktop). You also can download the md5sum