Answer My Searches

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

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Yould is a generator for pronounceable random words. It uses Markov chains trained on a large body of prose.

It looks like you can also install it as a Python library.

Here are a few I came up with:
Knotive
Destrus
Hathis
Conce

They might make good names for future products somday. Can you find any good ones?

Here is the blog post where Yould’s author talks about how he came up with the idea and a bit about how it works.

Nautilus File Manager Scripts gives you a handy collection of Nautilus scripts to do actions on a selected file or files when you right-click. Most important to me is “scale image”, which I’ve been missing since I left Windows XP and no longer had access to its image resizer power toy.

So you’re sure you have ImageMagick installed on your Ubuntu/Linux, other system but you keep typing it into your console and getting the error:
bash: ImageMagick: command not found

Well, ImageMagick provides a set of useful commands such as convert, and display, but none of these commands are called “ImageMagick”. That’s why you’re not seeing it. So just choose which ImageMagick command you want to use and use that in your console.

This page lists all of the commands and their command line syntax.

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

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