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Making custom emblems for Ubuntu
Have you ever wanted to make your own emblems for Ubuntu? It is very easy. Just use the GIMP (or something similar) to make a png image (make it at least 40x40px) and then open nautilus (e.g. Places>Home Folder>Edit>Backgrounds and Emblems and add it. I store all my emblems in ~/Pictures/emblems. For a brilliant overview [...]
F-spot and the date sort order of pre-digital photos
F-spot is very useful but it has a few quirks which can be very confusing. Especially if you are working with photos which do not come from a digital camera (e.g. scanned, taken from the web etc). The order in which they display, and the dates under which they are stored, can be quite confusing. [...]
Gorgeous Javascript Vector Graphics e.g. Charts
Check out http://raphaeljs.com/ to see some beautiful charting. No flash required – just Javascript and a reasonably modern browser (IE 6+). The developer is hoping to have a range of standard charts available by November (fingers crossed) – see Plans for barcharts, scatterplots etc?.
Using Xsane without going Insane
Xsane works well enough once you figure out the interface. Whatever you do, don’t accidentally mess the colour settings up . Here is a tentative set of instructions for mass scanning of photos my mother put together using Xsane on Intrepid. I’ll expand upon them later from a machine with a scanner on it: Applications>Graphics>X-Sane [...]
Converting OGV screencast to AVI using WinFF
WinFF provides a GUI for converting OGV format videos into AVI. OGV is the format gtk-recordmydesktop produces its screencasts. I used 1000 as the Video Bitrate, 60 as the Frame Rate, and 800×600 as the Video Size.
MPG to AVI in Ubuntu Using mencoder
A friend had to get a 120 MPG file down to a smaller size so he could email a message to a friend for a celebration. Ubuntu to the rescue! I found the following: mencoder INPUTFILE -ofps 25 -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=192 -srate 48000 -xvidencopts fixed_quant=4 -o OUTPUT.avi http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4142023&postcount=2 The srate (sound) could [...]
KolourPaint is the MS Paint Replacement for Ubuntu
I had to agree with movingtofreedom that KolourPaint is much better than GNU Paint. Even if using Gnome instead of KDE generally. Undo, zoom, tooltips etc etc etc. Wikipedia on KolourPaint http://www.kolourpaint.org/
Open Flash Chart
I have just come across Open Flash Chart and it looks brilliant. It has PHP and Python libraries and more.
Adding simple shapes to GIMP drawings
When working with screen dumps there is often a need to circle a button or put a red ellipse around something to draw it to the user’s attention. The best way of doing this in the GIMP is not exactly easy to discover by accident! I only found it out in “Beginning GIMP – From [...]