Posts tagged with "ubuntu"
Saturday, May 28, 2011 6:04:12 PM
plugins, ubuntu, apps
Often newbies on Ubuntu use default apps as they are. Later they try "more powerful" ones. Wrong way - you can empower default apps a lot by installing additional plugin packages. You may have to activate them at the program preferences after install them.
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Friday, May 6, 2011 9:57:45 AM
presenter, ubuntu, linux, phillips
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For my next talks on
IICO and may on
TYPO3 Camp Berlin i bought a nice Phillips SNP 3000 presentation stick. It is made for OS X and Windows and so i get sure it will run on Ubuntu Linux too. The USB hardware was identified (use dmesg on shell) but it didn't work at all

After some tries on a Mac i figured out that it runs their only when using teh USA keyboard option. So i added an additional "USA" keyboard layout to my Ubuntu Lucid (System > Preferences > Keyboard). Now anything works fine in Evince (PDF) and OpenOffice Impress and.

While the presenter stick works like a simple keyboard device it is software independent and can be used on any software.
Sunday, April 3, 2011 1:20:23 PM
window, operating system, ubuntu, os
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Did you recognized there so much new OS stuff around:
We have
Android 3,
WebOS 3,
Ubuntu 11.04 with own interface,
Gnome 3,
Apple 10.7. "Lion" and most ugly and not much innovative
Windows 8. iOS5 (from Apple too) will coming soon.
So it seems computing, user experience and interaction design will start into a much reinvented era (ok may not on Windows) and i'm eager to see which concepts work and which does not.
Sunday, April 3, 2011 12:57:45 PM
lucid, gnome, ubuntu, linux
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So many people missed new stuff here, so i decided to restart blogging again about web development, graphics, handy tools, design and 3D.
So may you yourself how my desktop looks like, here is a screeny of it:

I'm using Ubuntu Lucid with hidden top panel and Gnome Do (i really love the combination as launcher and dock). I created my own theme based on the
Finery theme and a much extended version of the Eikon icons.
Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:32:04 PM
ubucon, ubuntu, flyer
This year again the german
Ubucon took place in October in Göttingen. I didn't have have time to be there but now
various image galleries are online.
On
one picture i saw the
Ubuntu flyer Germany first time in real life! Now i know that it really exists
Friday, November 27, 2009 2:47:16 PM
ideas, freemind, brainstorm, xmind
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At the beginning of that week i wrote a post about the upcoming
Xmind 3.1, now it is available for download at the Xmind-Website. Xmind 3.1. shipped with:
* Presentation Mode
* Better theme behavior and default themes
* Brainstorm mode
* Improved search capabilities
* Improved Sorting
* Gant-Chart and Tasks
A bad detail is that half of the new features are only available in the commercial Pro version.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:41:31 AM
vector graphics, svg, inkscape, coreldraw
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After a longer developing step and 4 prereleases,
Inkscape 0.47 is now available as final. This version ships with huge improvements, to much to describe them here so check out the
screens and
release notes.
Hopefully this final will be available for ubuntu Karmic soon
Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:40:29 PM
freemind, xmind, ubuntu, mind mapping
...

At the beginning of the year
i wrote a post about the brilliant mindmapping software
Xmind. A lot of the new features of the upcoming XMind 3.1 are illustrated at the
developer blog.
Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:54:09 PM
operating system, ubuntu, linux
This year seems to be a year of operating systems. There was
Ubuntu Jaunty,
Moblin 2, the announcement of
Chrome OS,
Snow Leopard from Apple,
WebOS for the Palm Pre and
Windows 7.
Besides the release of Jaunty all these releases has no real impact to me but today i switched to Ubuntu
Karmic Koala which is another fine Ubuntu release - and that rocks me
Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:33:03 PM
vector graphics, svg, inkscape, coreldraw
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The 4th and hopefully last prerelease of
Inkscape 0.47 is out. This prerelease is focused on stable live path effects.
So test it and send the developers your
feedback. The bad news is that there is no prerelease4 package for Ubuntu yet:
https://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+ppa-packageshttps://launchpad.net/~inkscape.testers/+archive/ppa
Friday, September 4, 2009 11:37:17 AM
ubuntu, 3d, linux, event
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Just a month after the first
Blender 2.49 update a secound update is available. Blender 2.49b brings quite a lot of fixes to the open source 3d suite. All improvements listed at the
release log page.
Deb packages for Ubuntu are available at
GetDeb.net.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:12:50 AM
performance, firefox, tuning, ubuntu
...

After knowing that all my
Firefox extensions i installed are runing now on
Firefox 3.5 too and reading the post on
Tombuntu about Ubuntuzilla i'm much happier with the Firefox browser. Today i found another really nice goody at the
t3n tips: A
nearly complete guide tuning Firefox 3.5! Sorry it is completly written in german.
Saturday, August 8, 2009 3:34:51 PM
3d, ubuntu, linux, event
...

A while ago the open source 3d suite
Blender 2.49a and the Blender based game
Yo Frankie! 1.1b where released, now you can grab
Ubuntu Deb packages of them at GetDeb.net.
BTW: At the
Siggraph 2009, the world biggest event about 3D, a Blender 2.5 preview was presented by the Blender Foundation.
A preview of Blender 2.5 is available online too.
Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:13:34 PM
coreldraw, inkscape, svg, vector graphics
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The 2nd prerelease of
Inkscape is available, please test and
report any issues you run into.
Check out the
roadmap and my older posts about the devlopment of Inkscape 0.47 (
here,
here and
here) to explore the new features.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you will find the older prerelease 0 at the
Inkscape PPA.
Monday, June 8, 2009 4:35:56 PM
vector graphics, svg, inkscape, coreldraw
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And the winner is...

Not bad at all but the typography could be improved, it is to thin for my taste.
Other participations can be found at
deviantART.
Friday, May 22, 2009 8:24:55 PM
ati, hardy, ubuntu, dell
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I did it, i switched from Ubuntu Hardy and my old Dell Vostro 17 to my new Dell Studio 17 and Ubuntu Jaunty. After i ordered my new laptop i was afraid getting problems with the ATI graphics card. And i was afraid too getting all my own scripts, tricks and apps runing. Here is what is working so far...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:37:16 AM
vector graphics, svg, inkscape, coreldraw
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Since May 15 the
Inkscape 0.47 development is in feature freeze and in some days the Hard freeze follows. In mid of June the vector graphics software Inkscape 0.47 will be available. For more details about the 0.47 release check out the
roadmap and my older posts about Inkscape:
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/2008/05/25/inkscape-0-47-space-optimizationhttp://my.opera.com/area42/blog/2008/07/16/inkscape-0-47-path-effectshttp://my.opera.com/area42/blog/show.dml/1993194Of course this upcoming release needs a new About screen. So the typical
Inkscape About Screen Contest is announced.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:14:38 PM
flyer, design, ubuntu, linux
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[/img]Last year at the
Ubucon'08 i'm getting involved designing a new flyer for Ubuntu Germany. After
Julius Bloch poked us again and again, end of last year
Thomas Keup and me was thinking about the message. Based on the workshop of the Ubucon'08 and our brainstorming Thomas created a really cool text for it. And so it was now on me creating a really cool design that fits to this superb text.
...and i did well »All work is based on
Inkscape,
Gimp,
Seperate+,
Dejavu Sans &
Ubuntu font,
Moonshiner and
CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp.
Thanks to all the people give us feedback and hunting for typo bugs.
UPDATE:Here is the
web optimized PDF of it.
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