I’ve been playing around with Gnome Blog Entry poster and BloGTK. They are both good, BloGTK has more features and some nice options for tagging.
To learn about these applications all I did was use the package manager that comes with Edubuntu and the word blog as a keyword for searching through the packages, click a little box, hit apply and 2 minutes later I have 2 new powerful tools for blogging. Gnu/Linux is incredible.
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A friend invited me to HUMBUG again and they had a talk on Libre Graphics.
Andy Fitzsimon delivered a postmortem of the Libre Graphics Meeting that was held on 17-19 March, 2006 in Lyon, France. Topics covered included Inkscape, The Gimp and Scribus.
Continue reading Libre Graphics MeetingThe Croquet site has a new look.
Croquet SDK 1.0 Beta has been released. Go get it and see what you think.
A friend sent me an email about this and I’m thinking about going.
“3 days of free activities for all the family. Kicking off on Friday 5th May at midday. Heralded as the largest multicultural event in Brisbane over 200,000 people from all walks of life joined in last year to celebrate the birth of the Buddha some 2500 years ago.
This years theme is Harmony in Diversity – promoting a peaceful existence and appreciation of our unique multicultural identity.”
www.buddhabirthdayfestival.com.au
Continue reading Annual Buddha Birthday Festival on South bank
Day two of running Fedora Core 5 and the Gnome desktop. I usually just use Live CD’s to see how things are going with the desktop environment, I’ve decided I’m going to use this as my desktop system and take a newbie approach.
Continue reading Newbies have all the fun
Last week I caught up with an old friend, he was running Kubuntu and this very nice looking 3D desktop. Here’s the info from Wikipedia : XGL, Compiz. If your not going to install it, you’ll need to follow the external links and watch a video. It shows off the GNU/Linux destop and is very pleasing to the eye.
Continue reading XGL Desktop and old friendsThe latest issue of FSM is out and can be read online or downloaded for free. That’s 11 new articles to read.
Go get it.
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David A. Smith made a comment on my blog today notifying me of a Croquet release coming soon. To be honest I’m blown away. Here’s some info about him from Wikipedia.
“David Alan Smith (born 1957 in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) is an American computer scientist who has focused on interactive 3D and using 3D as a basis for new user environments and entertainment for over thirty years.
Continue reading Croquet Release coming soonThe other day I recieved an email from Alberto Betella notifying me about his project. Its a PHP script which allows to upload mp3 audio files via web form and automatically create podcast rss w3c-compliant feeds. It’s called Podcast Generator.
