TECH DORM

Chrome Open Chrome > Settings > Advanced > Privacy|Content Settings > Plug-Ins | Click To Play . OR In your address bar, copy and paste - chrome://chrome/settings/content . Scroll down until you reach the Plug-ins listing there. Here you need to switch from Run automatically to Click to play . Firefox Open FireFox. Type about:config into the address bar and hit Enter. If you receive a warning about modifying settings, click the I'll be careful, I promise button to proceed. In the search bar that appears at the top of the page, enter plugins.click_to_play . The configuration setting should appear on a single line. Right-click the configuration setting and select Toggle. The value column should change from false to true . Restart Firefox. Opera Go to Settings (Alt+P) page and search for " plug-ins ". From there select Click to play .

Latest version of VLC has a feature to download subtitles automatically using the file name or hash. It saves you the trouble to go through manually downloading the subtitle. It uses addon VLSub which requires VLC version 2.2 To use this feature click on View tab and select Download Subtitles . It will open VLSub addon with options to search for subtitles by file hash or file name. Choose either option and it will search opensubtitles.or g for subtitles. Choose your subtitle of choice depending on your file and clicking Download selection . It will download and save the subtitle in your current working directory. The default language is English but you can change it to other languages as well from the Show Config window.

If you are a CSS developer then you'll love this tool. Sprite Cow is an open source and online web app that generates necessary CSS based on your sprites like background-position, width, height etc. The source is available on GitHub

Piskel is a free and open source online sprite editor. I use it to quickly edit my sprites. Online version was bit slow and browser froze a lot. Offline version is fine. Because I was using Linux Mint 17, I was getting an error libudev.so.0 not found. I was able to solve it by running the command sed -i ' s/udev\.so\.0/udev.so.1/g ' nw

Microsoft Paint alternative on Linux Best one I have found is Pinta

I made a django app recently in a weekend. Its called Top 10 Songs . It retrieves top charts from all over the internet to determine top songs for the weekend. Visit the site @ www.top10songs.co.in The app is open source and code is available at GitHub