TJ is Blogging!

If you are not a born designer, making background images for your web sites is always a headache. Since I felt lazy to always go to a designer, I found some online tools to do that for me. Hope they will help others like me as well. These low poly backgrounds were always fascinated me and wanted to use some in my web sites as well. These are some tools you can use to generate them without any effort. https://qrohlf.com/trianglify-generator/ http://alssndro.github.io/trianglify-background-generator/ http://matthew.wagerfield.com/flat-surface-shader/ https://msurguy.github.io/triangles/ Water pipes is another awesome artwork http://dragdropsite.github.io/waterpipe.js/ Since everybody is talking about material design lately this will be helpful. http://www.stringsistemas.com/materialgenerator.html Finally some CSS gradient generators http://www.webcore-it.com/colorful-background/# http://gradient.quasi.ink/

This is some trouble I faced. When I create a wifi hotspot from my laptop, I couldn't connect my phone to it. Normally it allows when you create an open wifi hotspot, but with a password protected one you can't. This is because Ubuntu based OS's create ad hoc wifi networks, and they are not compatible with connecting to other devices. We can fix this with a simple trick. 1. Create a new wifi connection This is nothing big, most of the Ubuntu based OS's have a GUI to do this via a network icon the top etc. Remember create it as WPA & WPA2 Personal network. This is the type of the network that we're gonna create, and it allows you to set a password for that. 2. Make it accessible to other devices After you creating the wifi network it will create a file in the  /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ directory I created mine as mynetwork  so here is the file I got. You might need sudo permission to access that. The file is there, so I just wan...

Its been like 3 years after my last blog post. Looking back at those, it seems all the posts are so out dated and some times hilarious lol. Was thinking whether to start a new blog, but end up with thinking i'll be update the same old blog. Hope to keep posting more frequently! will see :) ~TJ