I’m working on a series of blogs about banking apps, and screenshots are important to document what I see: however some banking apps don’t allow screenshots at all. Starling, for example, has an option to enable screenshots for 15 minutes but Cooperative Bank doesn’t have that option. Getting round this took me while to figure…Continue reading How to take Screenshots of a banking app on android
Category: Fedora
copy-pasting data from website table to libreoffice, formatting it as a csv in geddit
Yet another task getting data out of a fairly nasty/incoherent web-based table and moving it into LibreOffice for sorting/project planning. Presumably this is all “easier” with scripting but I don’t have the time/patience/inclination to learn, so here is my hacky method! It worked for 95% of my data, so I had 5 of 100 lines…Continue reading copy-pasting data from website table to libreoffice, formatting it as a csv in geddit
Removing double line breaks in a text editor on Linux (Fedora)
While copy-pasting an index from a website to a spreadsheet (google sheet) recently, I found several annoying points of formatting: Each item was an html link, which could not be easily removed in bulk The items were “double spaced” using two new lines after each item. I found the easiest way to remove this formatting…Continue reading Removing double line breaks in a text editor on Linux (Fedora)
Help I forgot to make my user an administrator when installing fedora
When installing fedora I almost always forget to tick the “make user an administrator” box. Then when I want to install some software or update later I get a rather morose ticking off from my terminal… “Username is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported”. Just what every girl wants to hear… one…Continue reading Help I forgot to make my user an administrator when installing fedora
How to open gparted in fedora 25 (wayland): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
Today’s task list involved installing Fedora 25 (yay!) on my new computer and reformatting some hard drives to use as backup disks. The install was fine however I couldn’t seem to get gparted started (poet / know it). Gparted is the tool I find most useful for dealing with hard drives, partitions etc, but apparently…Continue reading How to open gparted in fedora 25 (wayland): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0