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vim mappings – easy way to do things.

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:15:40 +0000

You can use vim mappings to make some of your editor tasks very simple. Here I am giving you just a example, but you could always let your imagination run wild.

:nmap ,b Oj0c$**hP

And what do we do here.

O – Add a new line

– Go to normal mode

j – go to newly added line

0 – Go to begining of line

c$ – Change till end of line

sxiv – image viewer

Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:13:06 +0000

sxiv is a nice alternative to feh. It is very light weight and quite useful. Here is the description:

Description :
sxiv is an alternative to feh and qiv. Its only dependency besides xlib
is imlib2. The primary goal for writing sxiv is to create an image viewer,
which only has the most basic features required for fast image viewing (the
ones I want). It works nicely with tiling window managers and its code base
should be kept small and clean to make it easy for you to dig into it and
customize it for your needs.

Free, But Not Full-Featured Photo editor

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:08:14 +0000

http://www.linuxworld.com/reviews/2010/111710-photo-editor-free-but-not.html

Photo! Editor: Free, But Not Full-Featured This free photo editor produces nice images easily, but can’t print or share. By Sally Wiener Grotta and Daniel Grotta, PC World November 16, 2010 07:21 PM

Photo! Editor (free) is an interesting combination of easy-to-use image editing tools that can produce good results for the person who wants to simply clean up their photos, though the program does have highly limited functionality.

viewnior – another image viewer on Linux (with support for GIF)

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:21:26 +0000

Here is another Linux viewer (Image) that is worth a mention. URL : <a href="http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior">http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior

Description :

Viewnior is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer program. Created to be simple, fast and elegant. It’s minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. Among its features are:

Fullscreen & Slideshow

Rotate, flip, save, delete images

Animation support

Browse only selected images

Navigation window

Simple interface

Configurable <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">mouse actions

The best part about the viewer is the ability to display gif inherently. Worth a look if you are using a lot of gif images.

F-Spot photo viewer – another tool with option to view the exif data.

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:45:51 +0000

Here is another tool worth looking at for <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">Image Viewer. Its called F-spot and the description for the same is as below :

F-Spot is an application designed to provide personal photo management to the GNOME desktop. Features include import, export, printing and advanced sorting and tagging of digital images.

Another interesting viewer for images on Linux – Geeqie.

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:38:00 +0000

Here is the description:

Geeqie has been forked from the <a class="zem_slink" title="GQview" rel="homepage" href="http://gqview.sourceforge.net">GQview project with the goal of picking up development and integrating patches. It is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer for browsing through graphics files. Its many features include <a class="zem_slink" title="Point-and-click" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-and-click">single click file
viewing, support for external editors, previewing images using <a class="zem_slink" title="Thumbnail" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail">thumbnails, and zoom.

First off, this is one image viewer with a lot more features than <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG or any such light weight image viewer. So, my experience was that it was a little slower in loading images (bigger than 5MB) and opening folders with more than 150 images. Here is a brief of the image viewer with screenshots.

Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:01:29 +0000

Today we will look at how a simple viewer like <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG of Gnome can help you learn some basic things about Photography.

To begin with, we will open eog and then go to :

Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins

and enable

<a class="zem_slink" title="Exchangeable image file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format">Exif Display

PuTTY alternatives - AlternativeTo.net

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:06:45 +0000

Sometimes after hours of searching you find a link so good that it needs no introductions and neither any writeup. I found one such page today :

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In (any) vi, add a keystroke to format the current paragraph.

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:11:58 +0000

<a id="aptureLink_F2g9MXMw3t" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi">vi editor is very powerful in the sense that you can use maps, abbreviations and recordings. One such example is when you are trying to write a email or trying to write a paragraph and you want to format it. You can create a mapping like so, in your .exrc or .vimrc and use it to format the paragraph.

map ^A !}fmt<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com/2009/08/19/nano-text-editor-course/">Nano Text Editor Course (slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/af58b127-c811-4fc3-bce6-9f44fcdc03c3/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b22.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

5 Sites To Find Free Alternatives To Popular Software

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:13:26 +0000

And sometimes there are software you find irksome and think things could have been better. In any case, I always like to try out a few alternative software choices before I settle with any particular application mainly for two reasons: One, you would never know how good or bad the one you are using is until you try some alternatives and two: a bit of choice and competition can only be for the good of us users! Your motivation might be different: perhaps you want to find a free software that does the same task as the paid software you are using or maybe your favorite Windows application is not available on Mac or Linux.