1 How to Add Custom Resolution Mac OS X

   Hi, today i want to share my experience. I am using an external monitor with thunderbolt-VGA adapter connecting my macbook air to an LG W1941S monitor. Unfortunately, my monitor won't show its native resolution.

   For you who wonder how to set a custom resolution in mac os x environment or run your monitor at native resolution, the solution is App called SwitchResX . This app is not free, but i think it's worth paying since it gives a lot of options.

   Let's jump straight in!

1. First, download SwitchResX (which is trial, you can purchase it if you like it)

2. After it's completed, you'll have a .zip file, just extract and then install them.

3. After you follow every step and got it installed, open it. You won't find it in apps, it shows on System Preferences. - however, it automatically shows up after installation.

4. In the SwitchResX preferences, you'll see your displays. There, you'll find some tabs, one of them is Custom Resolution.

5. It might shows blank space like so, or if you're using default macbook display, it should show some custom resolution. Now, make a new custom resolution by clicking add (+) button under the list.

6. You'll provided with a box where you can customise your own resolution. You can select from 3 options : scaled, standard, or custom.

i suggest selecting custom only if you know what you are doing. Standard is the most reliable one, for example, we uses standard preset.

7. Then, choose desired resolution that is already provided in the list. And click OK if you're done.

8. Now, you should see custom res. you just created on the list, showing "Not installed" status.

9. Save your work (Cmd+S) and status will change to "Need Reboot"

10. You're good to go, reboot your computer. After reboot, you should see your custom resolution in system preferences (if not, head to "current resolution" tab step4)

- To change your resolution (or adjust other settings) quickly, you can enable menu. By heading to menu, and tick "is active and contain" option. Small quick access will be shown on your menubar! i think it's quite handy having a quick access to your all-in-one display configuration. 

That's all! hope it helps you who having trouble with mac os x resolution! If you have questions, just comment down below, i'll reply asap if available. Thanks

0 How to Install Japanese Font in Linux

Japanese font is not installed by default in Linux (as i experienced).
For example, if you have a file with japanese font name, it might not visible - just white blank space.
So, here is simple way how to install japanese font on your linux machine.

1. Goto terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)
2. type the following command :

Ubuntu/Debian :
  
# apt-get install fonts-takao-mincho 
# aptitude install -P fonts-takao-mincho
# apt-get install fonts-takao

Fedora :

# yum install fonts-japanese

Arch Linux :

# pacman -S ttf-sazanami

3. Enter, input Y if prompted!
4. Wait until installation is complete
5. You should see your japanese character now, e.g. in Rhythmbox, when you have song with jap font, which previously unseen, now it should visible!

NP:
- Ignore hash ( #) when you write the command!
- If you have permission issue / something like permission denied add "sudo" before the command, and then enter your password, it should look blank, keep typing your password, it's normal!
      your command should be like " sudo apt-get install fonts-takao "

If you have questions, just leave a comment! Thank you

0 Best Free Softwares

    When you have freshly installed OS, it's essential to have some basic programs to do your everyday activities such as browsers, media player, office, etc. So, today, i'm going to show you my pick of best program that should you install after installing your OS.
All of software i pick here is 100% my opinion as i ever experience using them. In many case, it may be differs from yours. So, let's get started!

1. Internet Browser - MOZILLA FIREFOX
This is very essential software you must have, if you have windows installed it should come with default IE - which is insecure and sucks. My best pick of this category is mozilla firefox.

The reason - firefox is fast, secure, highly customisable and importantly it respect your privacy (which is claimed by mozilla).

Alternative : Google Chrome 
Google Chrome is also fast, secure, nice minimalistic look, huge html5 video support. But, i read about privacy issue - i don't think it's really matter for me, though.

2. Office Software - LibreOffice
Why don't i choose MS office? Ok, it's great but i try to do free software here. So, for this category i pick is LibreOffice. LibreOffice is good office software, it's fast, easy to use, highly compatible with MSoffice format, and it looks beautiful.

Forget to mention that it's complete office suite including word editor, spreadsheet, etc. They're the same as suite you find on basic MS Office suite, which is awesome for a free program.

Alternative : Open Office
Ok, i like open-office, it's good etc etc. But, it looks sucks, i don't like its GUI so i put it on alternative. Still, it's a good software worth trying!

3. Media Player - VLC Media Player
This orange-cone-shaped logo media player is very familiar. Free, Open Source, and very often ranked #1 in some software download site. I like VLC because it can play almost all kind of media format, also sometime it plays broken files well. Features also good though some i notice are subtitle timing setting, aspect ratio, online streaming, etc.

Undoubtedly this is the best free multi-platform media player!


4. Music Player - Clementine

Although it's sufficient having a single media player to play all kind of media including music, it's very satisfying looking at your music collection arranged nicely in some playlist. Therefore, a music player software is very important to me. My pick of music player is clementine.

Clementine is a highly featured, it has audio CD player, online radio streaming, integrated cover manager, integrated song-artist info browser which redict you to last.fm or wikipedia (no browser opened). So, that's why i pick Clementine.

Alternative : Winamp
Winamp is well-known, ancient music player. Very simplistic look, simple, and fast. Although it's no longer developed, winamp is still worth trying!

5. Image Editing Software - GIMP
I think it's an essential thing putting a image editing software in you system. It's very handy in case of editing photos, image, or even simple background removal. My pick in this category is GIMP.

Other alternative of photoshop which is paid for complete version is GIMP. It has so many features including drawing tools, layers ofc, "mask"(?), filters, etc - i don't know much about image editing actually. Some people say GIMP is complete photoshop in a free version. So, yeah, this is my pick for image editor.

Alternative : InkScape
I don't know if this works for photo editing. But InkScape is a decent vector drawing/editor, i used it for many vector projects at junior high. Still, i like gimp more for wide image editing. If you're vector editor, InkScape is a good program!

0 Moving! Windows to Linux!

   

    Hello, guys whoever read this post.
So, it's been a long time since i posted my last post. My pass was lost and i made a new email. But, today i'm successfully recover my pass, and at very beginning of 2015, i decide to back writing random blog stuffs.

    I'll tell you my experience.
I've been using windows since 2001, it was the first time i use computer (3 years old). The first OS i use was windows 2000. Last year, i feel my windows 7 computer going slow, i game most on it actually. I did "typical" ways to speed up windows, and it still super slow to boot. Hmm, ok, at that time i think it's the time to reinstall my windows 7.
   What a bad luck, i lost my win7 installation DVD! And yeah, i stuck with that slow system for a few days. Then, i'm browsing around, and find an article on the internet talk about Linux. Ah, that time i was not interested, why? simply because it look sucks : there's a "command prompt" things in the screenshots shown there, also there's something called "xfce" which is super bad-looking desktop in my opinion.
   OK, i ignored that article for a while. But... like a half hour later, my damn windows 7 hangs. And it forced my to shut it down and reboot, losing my school homework left unsaved. My feeling was angry, sad, etc etc! I don't expect a decent PC with intel sb i5 and 8gigs of ram will got HANG opening a single MS word! Of course i blame my windows 7!
    After that hang moment, i open back article i read, and see some linux version called "distro". I decided to downloads and install it to my computer, the first distro i download was Ubuntu 10.04 (which is not the latest version at that time). After got all installed, i bit surprised, it was easy to install (and of course it's blazing fast).
     Some days i get used to my Ubuntu system, i learned terminal - command prompt thing i thought it's sucks , actually terminal is cool! it's linux all-in-one tool that easy to use when you get used to it. Of course you need to learn some basics first before feel it's COOL! Oh well, who in the earth Windows typical user would use such command line thing like that, they'll stuck in GUI (which is less customisable) seriously you'll feel you're awesome learning and using it at the first time, it just feel like you're a superuser.
     Now, it's been like a year i'm using linux instead of windows as OS on my secondary PC. I use mac for school by the way, if my ssd space allows me to bootcamp, i also want to install linux on my mac, because i'm way more satisfacted using linux than mac os. Linux i've been use were Ubuntu series (Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, Kubuntu), Linux Mint, Puppy Linux, other linuxes which i dont remember their name.
    Things those i like from linux : they're fast, super secure (as i read there're only 40s of viruses attacking Ubuntu), highly customisable, and stable! I don't need to talk about this too long, this is just awesome, you should try it yourself to see linux's awesomeness!
    One only thing i don't like about linux is the games, i am a mild gamer, i games on my windows, but on linux you just can't play games you game on windows - which is sucks. In the first days i use linux, i open my battlefield 2 .exe program, and undoubtedly it won't open normally, instead it ask me to choose program to open it. Of course, you can't run windows program in linux - for those who don't know yet. Luckily, still it support steam and there're a lot of linux gaming community out there. But, for now, i still rely on windows in case of gaming. I just hope, in next years, more popular linux-compatible games will come to this awesome OS.

For those who find windows is slow, sucks, heavy-virus-ed, etc i recommend you to try Linux! It's free.
Try Ubuntu! http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
ZorinOS : for beginners! http://zorin-os.com/free.html
Linux Mint! http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

0 Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw?

My teacher gave me task to make a vector self-cartoonization. So i decide to write this post to compare 2 major vector design software for windows. Because it will help people to decide which program should they use for their works. They're Adobe Illustrator (www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html) and CorelDraw ( Corel.com ). This is pros and minus depend on people's opinion and some are mine.

Adobe Illustrator :
Pros :
- Better for professional editor
- Advanced features
- Adobe's leading brand
- Available for windows, mac os (cross platform)
- Industry standart
- Best effect
Minus :
- Interface isn't familiar with beginners
- Corel better used in making GIF or non complicated works
- Hardware requirements for new version

CorelDraw :
Pros :
- Friendly user interface (good for beginner)
- Good for making non-complicated works
- Compatibility with other products
- Run smoother
- Low hardware requirement
Minus :
- Effects isn't as good as adobe illustrator
- Not industry standart
- Not available for mac user

That's opinions i collected from people and my own experiences.