If you like to support open standards format, here is a (at least for me) new discovery: .epub. If you like open standards and ebooks, support the spreading of .epub. This file extension is a mixture of three open standards OPS ( Open Publication Structure ), OPF ( Open Packaging Format) and OCF (Open Container [...]
Read more →As the last post of the year I wanted to sum up a short list of the best open source projects I met in 2008. Several from the list were created way before, but only got used by yours truly this year. Without further delay: Identi.ca which I’m now using way more often than Twitter; [...]
Read more →Gnome has the great advantage of being a Chameleon with its Theme options. Making your Gnome based distro looking like a Mac OSX is very easy: Download Mac4Lin; Click on the file Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0_RC.sh for an automatic installation; Install AWN and setup it up with the applets you need. Since I installed AWN, I removed the [...]
Read more →For the past few months I’ve been doing a lot of work editing images in .eps format. Since I really like my Gimp, I spent weeks trying to find a nice way to edit these images with this program, instead of running to Photoshop. Well, I was finally able to find a solution I now [...]
Read more →Before installing my Linux distro I did some pretty lengthy research on partitions. This was a concern for me since I was not doing a fresh install, but installing Linux right beside Windows with a dual boot installation. If you want to have your entire computer Linux-only, you will not have much to worry, the [...]
Read more →As mentioned previously, Gimp is a very good open source program for your image editing needs. What is even better about Gimp is its plug-in structure which allows for a greater usage of the program. One of these plug-ins, called GimpPublishr, will allow you to upload your images to Flickr or Picasaweb automatically. It is [...]
Read more →A couple of websites that have helped me greatly to find excellent open source projects: osalt.com (open source as alternative): here you will find a good list of open source alternatives, a description of each program and the rating readers have given to each project; SourceForge: the home of the majority of open source projects, [...]
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