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May 5, 2012
GIMP 2.8 Released
After a long wait GIMP 2.8 has been released. GIMP has always been my favorite graphics editor and it is free! I have always liked the fact that it is a cross platform app that I can use no matter what OS I have chosen to complete my task at hand. GIMP is the alternative to Photoshop which is great but very expensive product. Long-anticipated features such as layer groups, on-canvas text editing, advanced... read more
Mar 24, 2012
VLC v2.0.1 Released
The all-in-one VLC (Video Lan Media Player) has released a bugfix version of the best free cross platform player available. You can download it from here. This is my goto piece of software on Windows and Linux for playing all types of media. Many fixes available in this release. Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1: ——————————– Access: * fix... read more
Jan 30, 2012
Data Crow for Collection Cataloging
Recently I took on the task to catalog my video and music collection. This need was driven by the fact that I was purchasing duplicate movies. The criteria was simple. It had to be able to use a barcode scanner, handle movie and audio collections, more if possible and have connections to access IMDB, Amazon and others if possible and able to run on different OS’s. And lastly the cost had to be... read more
Dec 24, 2011
Install Darktable on Fedora 15
If you are a photographer you probably work with RAW images and many other images. There are not many programs available for Linux that are really good for managing and editing out there, but they are growing. One such program is Darktable. Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. In manages your digital negatives... read more
Apr 11, 2010
A Few Essential Repositories for Ubuntu
There are a few essential repositories that I use to add missing applications, codecs and other applications that are not available in Ubuntu. There are many more out there but these three are top added to my systems. Medibuntu (http://www.medibuntu.org/) Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for... read more
