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Google Street View Made Easy

Monday, June 18th, 2007

By now you all have heard about the Google cars/vans running around the country and taking pictures from the street. Who hasn’t heard about the ladies cat in a window? Well have you wondered how to see the top pictures,or maybe the most questionable ones? Now there is a site that lets you see them [...]

Upload your photos in an instant with Kflickr

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

 
Uploading pictures to Flickr via its Web-based interface is a hassle, particularly if you have dozens of shots to upload. Linux users have a better choice, though, in the form of Kflickr, a simple application for uploading shots to Flickr that will have your family photos online in no time.

Technorati tags: Graphics, Software
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Supply the big picture with Google Map Image Cutter

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

 
Google Map Image Cutter (GMIC) is a free software program that automatically slices up images, arranges them in tiles, and puts them into a Google Maps browser. It allows you to embed panoramas or extremely large images into Web pages, so visitors can zoom down to as much detail as they want and pan and [...]

Unveiling the Art of Illusion

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

 
Blender gets the lion’s share of press among free 3-D modeling applications, but it is not the only player in the field. Art of Illusion (AOI) is a mature, GPL-licensed 3-D modeler with robust editing, animation, and rendering features, and it’s a lot easier to use than Blender. If you haven’t tried it, it’s time [...]

GIMP tricks: Neon inscription

Monday, May 14th, 2007

 
In this tutorial we are going to show how to prepare a Neon inscription in GIMP. The article is meant for beginners, but you should know at least the basics of using GIMP in order to succeed. This is the first tutorial in the news series on PolishLinux.org so stay tuned!
 
Technorati tags: How-To, Graphics

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Paradox User Bar

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Okay Baldy has slapped together a userbar for those that desire to give us a little exposure out in the cyberworld.

To download: right click and “save as”
Feel free to use it in your siggy, a link back to the Paradox would be greatly appreciated!
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

Creating hackergotchis using the GIMP

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

 
A hackergotchi is a picture of a person’s head that’s used as an avatar for identification on a blog. Any region below the neck is cut out, as are any portions of the picture that don’t include the head. You can create a hackergotchi easily with a…

 
Technorati tags: Graphics.How-To
Source: Creating hackergotchis using the GIMP
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Swfdec officially adds Flash 7 video support (but not 8 or 9)

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

 
Free software fans of YouTube jumped for joy last week when developer Benjamin Otte announced on his blog that the free Swfdec Flash player has reached the point where it can play YouTube’s Flash video content. At that time the feature was only working in the project’s Git repository, meaning only those users willing to [...]

UnPlug and play - download embedded media

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

 
Frustrated by sites such as YouTube that require you to return to their site each time you want view the same video clip? If so, UnPlug is the perfect little FireFox extension for you.

 
Technorati tags: Graphics, Software
Source: UnPlug and play - download embedded media
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox

Xara LX forked to replace rendering engine

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

 
The Xara LX vector graphics editor took a big step forward last week. After months of gridlock between open source contributors to the project and its corporate owners, one of the contributors published his own fork of the code base — and the company approved, offering to host it in the official Subversion repository.

 
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