Linux

The files with extension .sh are files that contain scripts, commands in bash language, which runs on Linux. SH is a Linux shell that tells the computer what to do.

In a way we could say that it would be comparable to the Windows .exe.

There are different ways to run it. I’m going to explain 2. One with the terminal and another with the graphical interface, that is, with the mouse, that when you double-click it is executed. You can see it in the video and below is the step by step for those who prefer traditional tutorials.

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Sometimes we want to navigate pretending that we are in a certain country, that is, hiding our real IP and using another from the country we choose.

We may want to do this for many reasons:

• browse anonymously,
• services that are only offered if you navigate from a certain country,
• offers when hiring services,
• check how a website that contains geolocated elements works.

In my case it was the last option. After implementing several plugins on a WordPress website, I needed to check that it displayed the data correctly to users in each country.

Various methods can be used to do this.

Browse through a proxy, use a VPN or use TOR forcing it to the last node to be from the country that interests us.

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I use Gimp as my photography and images editor. I don’t open Photoshop for more than two years. I begin to use it

My main use nowadays is to edit in bulk the blog articles images. I resize it, add the watermark and reduce the image weight in seconds I handle them all at the same time.

But it is useful for photographers, and all people who work with images and repetitive tasks and routines.

There are different ways to batch processing in GIMP. Here I see two of them using Gimp 2.10.12

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