Hurray crossed 1000 visits for the day..

2010-06-25 1 min read Linux

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20 Photoshop Tips & Tricks That You Should Know About

2010-06-25 0 min read Photo
\"Adobe
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<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/adobe_photoshop" title="Adobe Photoshop" rel="homepage" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family/">Photoshop is a heck of an amazing <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software. You can do all kinds of things with images and go as far as your imagination can take you. Once you are <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/introductory-photoshop-skills-for-the-beginning-photographer/">past the beginner level and understand what the various options are for and how they work, then you are ready for tips like the ones that are the topic of this 2 part article.

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5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it

2010-06-25 1 min read Linux

Last couple of days I was quite busy and thus could not catch up with my bloglines account. Today finally I got some time so am catching up on them and found some interesting things to share with you. Actually wanted to write them myself long time back but still thinking about it. And since someone has already done that, I will link to them. The first one for today is <a href="http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/20/5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it.html" target="_blank">5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it. This was not in the list that I was planning to write but some thing similar in line was pending after the distro comparisions I did some time back.

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solang – Photo collection viewer.

2010-06-25 0 min read Fedora Photo
\"GNOME\"
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Name       : solang
Arch       : i686
Size       : 1.8 M
Summary    : A Photo Manager for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnome" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME
URL        : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/solang/
License    : <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPLv3+
Description: Solang is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/free_content" title="Free content" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content">free photo manager that will act as a front-end for
directory based local storage as well as remote photo-storage
systems, as can be said, on the &#8221;Cloud&#8221;. Basic editing support is
also planned as well as a small pipelaine for RAW processing.
The aim of this project is to break the performance charecteristics
of current popular photo management <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">softwares and provide a fast
and reliable alternative that does not place humongous demands on
user&#8217;s <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/hardware" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware resources even to meet basic functionality.<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ubuntu-1010-to-be-codenamed-maverick-meerkat.ars">Ubuntu 10.10 to be codenamed Maverick Meerkat (arstechnica.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-12-i686-gnome">The Perfect Desktop – Fedora 12 i686 (GNOME) (howtoforge.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2009/12/19/euphemism-for-lobbying/">Why GNOME Funding is Equivalent to Lobbying and Why Novell is Likely Against GPL Enforcement (boycottnovell.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/bb959a48-b5f0-4e5f-8997-6c86961e6eff/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b11.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

Nice Link on Linux.

2010-06-25 1 min read Linux

Lot of good humour and nice articles of linux.

Find  <a href="http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/5735/1/">here

Linux Advertisement – So linux finally decides to do some marketing.

2010-06-25 1 min read Linux

Its been quite some time that people started saying that this is the year of linux, and Linux (like in the Turtle and Hare story) has been growing steadily. There are advocates and critics for the Linux. I sometime think what are the advocates or critics thinking when they are commenting. But let me not get into that. There are circumstances where you would have to stick with windows wheather you like it or not and similar is the case with Linux in this corporate world. Anyway, here is the link to the advertisements:

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Magic space on the current command line

2010-06-25 1 min read Bash Fedora Linux

# For how to set up magic space for Bash see:
# – http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/papers/bash_tips/#slide15
# – http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1690

man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p &#8217;magic-space&#8217;

man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p &#8217;Event Designators&#8217;

man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p &#8217;\!#&#8217; # &#8221;The entire <a class="zem_slink" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">command line typed so far.&#8221;

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