Linux for Designers

Besides Phatch the mass file renamer pyRenamer is one of my favorite batch tools. Version 0.6 brings besides many bugfixes a lot of new features:
→ You can save your favorite patterns to reuse them
→ Undo/redo feature
→ Now you can rename more music formats (ogg, real... those supported by hachoir)
→ You can keep file extensions untouched while renaming
→ Now you can rename directories
→ Allow renaming files and moving them to another directory
→ Added some icons to identify file types
→ Added random number pattern {rand}
→ Added refresh option, to reload files and directories
→ Added autopreview option
→ Add option to fix duplicated symbols on filename
→ Add option to ignore next errors while renaming
→ Better explanations on error dialogs
→ New icon
A Deb archive fur Ubuntu is available for download too.

Whoo-Hoo - Gnomefiles is back! It was hard to read that after it get hacked it may didn't come back. But it does. Thanks Eugenia!

The GSoC F-Spot Color Profile project are now in alpha state or like Wasja wrote in his blog: "So all big bugs with color profiles were fixed".
Ruben made a huge speed improvement for tagging in SVN too. More about his sidebar work can be found in his blog.
BTW if you like to know what's going on in the GSoC projects check out the Planet SoC blog.

At Ubuntuproductivity i found an interesting article about photo management with digital cameras and the RAW image format. There i discovered Bibble for the first time. All other software is well known with it's pros and cons. blueMarine is not listet/ testet in that article which is still in development too.

In March this year i wrote a short post about dummy content creation. There i presented James Halesthe's Lorem Ipsum Generator. It is now update to version 0.2 and shipped with new features and a better workflow (thanks for the copy & exit button).
LIG works perfect as an external tool for gEdit too:

#!/bin/sh
lorem-ipsum-generator & 

A good question by Linux Photography. Did we need really image viewers like gThumb? I personally belief in the thumbnail features of Nautilus and didn't need one anymore. Ok, for reviewing photos i use F-Spot

William Jon McCann has collected an interesting overview about operating systems and their bundled wallpapers - a lot of eyecandy.

Last year i wrote a post about Monitor color calibration on Linux. Now i recognized on my Dell Vostro 1700 system that the display is to lighten and that red is missing a bit.
At GetDeb i found GAMMApage which works great but didn't solve my problems in detail.
I found a good solution in installing the package "nvidia-settings" and configuring my display via "System > System settings > Nvidia X Server Settings > X Server Display Configuration > X Server Color Correction" in front of a brilliant and colorfull monitor. To get the color correction at system start i added at "System > Preferences > Sessions" the entry:

/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -l

Developing websites is a lot of copy and paste work too but sometimes you loose the code in the clipboard by copying another code line. There are two clipboard applets for the Gnome desktop to fix this problem Glipper and Parcellite.
First i trieb Glipper but it crashes on restart, now i'm using Parcellite which runs very smooth and is a ncie tiny tool.
Glipper is in the sources of Ubuntu, a Deb package of Parcellite can grabed at Getdeb.

My daily work is arranged by a lot of tasks that trying to be done in multitask mode. Very often i have to track the time for the tasks and if i'm on it to get one done there is a phone ring and another thing gets a higher priority.
Looking around at Gnomefiles i found Project Hamster which is a very cool applet for the Gnome panel to tracking time including stoping task, resume task and getting an overview what you have done a day, a week or a month. Check it out ist hot!
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can grab a Deb package too.