Poster Printer
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Easy Poster Printer is a free software program for the Windows operating system that enables a user to create a poster out of an image or photo that is loaded into the software. Veteran users might already know the concept that is applied to those images from services such as Rasterbator or Block Posters which we reviewed earlier.
Arcade Puppy
Basically a version 4.2 variation with a lot of retro game system emulators installed.
Picture shows Arcade version of Puppy Linux running on a VirtualBox VM; running the game "Thrust" on the Spectrum emulator.
Linux Distro hunting
I’m looking for a new Distro to run on my old PCs at home.
- Low profile, able to run in small amount of RAM
- Fast booting
- Python
- Firefox 3.x, Opera 10.x or Chromium browser
- Mplayer or similar for video playback
Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery
Remote control using Twitter
I have been thinking about running task on a Ubuntu Linux machine remotely using Twitter. Why you ask, due to firewall restriction where the machine is located I can’t get direct access to it but it has connection out to the internet.
- I send a direct message to a Twitter account which only follows me and I follow on my main account.
- This contains the code for type of download and the URL of the download.
- The Python script is started by cron at scheduled times.
- The script connects to Twitter and checks for direct messages.
- It parses the direct message and either spawns a WGET or youTube-dl command to get the resource.
- If its a video it then runs a command is run to convert it to divX ready for upload it to my phone.
- If its a file then it is virus checked.
- Finally the direct messages are deleted from the Twitter account and a reply sent to my Twitter account.
Converting MP4 files to other divX and mp3 formats
I find myself often converting MP4 video files to divX and mp3 format to play on my LG phone.
#!/bin/bash
echo “MP4 Conversion”
for f in *.mp4;
do
echo “…Processing $f file…"
ffmpeg -i “$f” -vn -ac 2 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k echo $f|cut -d. -f1.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1
mencoder “$f” -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o echo $f|cut -d. -f1.divx > /dev/null 2>&1
done
Odroid: all the open, none of the contract
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Ubuntu 10.04
Create and manage databases in Linux with Glom
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Might be worth a look.
If you’ve ever had to work with a database in Linux you most likely are aware of three or four tools that can handle the task: MySQL, PostgreSQL, PhpMyAdmin, and OpenOffice Base. These are all outstanding applications, but the first two are complex command-line only tools, the third requires a web server, and the last isn’t as robust as some admins will need. But there is another tool that is very flexible and makes creating databases a simple task.
Handbrake 0.94 transcodes DVDs even faster
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Looks good :)