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Working as a freelance web developer means that I work really strange hours. I may not get to a project until my kids are in bed and keep working late into the evening. When there’s something that needs to be done, nothing ticks me off quite like a broken website that requires a phone call to customer support. Once or twice I’ll let someone get away with it, after-all sometimes stuff breaks. That’s just the way it is. But when it came time to renew my website domain – the face of my freelancing business, and I discovered yet again that the domain renewal pages of my registrar *still* would not allow me to renew online I nearly lost it. I called up their customer support where the person on the other end asked me for my username and password so that they could enter the transaction for me. Yeah right. It was time to find myself a new registrar. After the usual poking around the Internet and some discussion among my associates, I settled on http://www.namespro.ca/. They’ve been in the business since 2003 and are a Canadian business so I feel like I can trust them to manage my domains properly. I signed up and was able to quickly and easily move over my domain. The website is easy to follow and the domain management pages are clean and easy to use. I sent a couple questions out to their tech support and received prompt replies that made me very happy with my choice. I’ve since moved a couple more domains to them and will continue to chance my domains over to namespro as they come due. Managing my domains from a proper web interface on my own schedule has never been simpler!

Last week my laptop died so when the new one arrived I started re-installing all those apps that make it work the way I want. This post is about one of those *must-have* applications. I manage all may camera images on my laptop so being able to quickly resize or rotate images is pretty important to me. Luckily a friend showed me an easy way to do bulk rename and resize with a simple right-click.

Installation

To add the new options to the Nautilus context menu we’ll first need to install the package:

 sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter 

You’ll need to restart Nautilus or simply logout and log back in before you get the new right-click menu options. After you’ve done that you will be able to right-click on any image file and you’ll see the two new menu items: “Resize Images” and “Rotate Images”.

When you choose one of the menu items you will be presented with a simple interface to provide the relevant input parameters. What could be easier?!