Found this neat Android application which lets you generate factals on the move.
It is called Fractoid and is available on the Android market place.



The multi-touch zooming works well on my HTC Desire.

Alastair’s Fractals Main Page,My Shop at CafePress, My Shop at Zazzle

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32 Free Software Solutions For Photographers | DIYPhotography.net

Alastair Montgomery’s PhotographyMain Page,My Shop at Zazzle Follow me at @alastair_hm

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A must for every Flickr Linux user.

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Might be worth a look.

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Looks good :)

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Flickroom
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

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7 Best Free and Open Source Vector Graphics Editors for Linux

via TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL by noreply@blogger.com (jun auza) on 9/29/09

A software application that gives users the ability to compose and edit vector graphics images interactively on a computer is called a vector graphics editor. CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator are some of the most popular proprietary vector editors for Windows. But if you are looking for a capable free alternative that can also work on your Linux box, there are a lot to choose from.

Here are some of the best Free and Open Source vector graphics editors that you should check out:

Inkscape
Inkscape is a well-known, full-featured vector graphics editor application for Linux. It has a main goal of becoming a powerful graphics tool while being fully compliant with the XML, SVG, and CSS standards. One of the prime concerns of the Inkscape project is interface consistency and usability. This involves efforts to follow the GNOME Human interface guidelines, universal keyboard accessibility, and convenient on-canvas editing. Inkscape has achieved important advancement in usability since the project started.



Xara Xtreme (Linux Edition)
Xara Xtreme was originally developed for Windows but an open source version was later released for Linux. Xara Xtreme is known for its usability and fast rendering. It is also notable for being among the first vector graphics software applications to provide a fully anti-aliased display, advanced gradient fill, and transparency tools, features now common to many vector graphics editors. With interface almost identical to that of Inkscape and CorelDRAW, Xara Xtreme is considered to be quite easy to learn.



OpenOffice.org Draw
OpenOffice.org Draw is a powerful graphics package that is part of the OpenOffice.org office suite. It features "connectors" between shapes, which are available in a range of line styles and facilitate building drawings such as flowchart. Currently, OpenOffice.org Draw officially supports exporting to SVG format, though with some limitations to be resolved. It is anticipated that as SVG and SVG filters evolve, users will be able to use Draw to edit the large-scale collection of SVG samples from Open Clip Art Library.



Skencil
Skencil is a unique drawing application in the sense that it is implemented almost completely in Python, a very high-level, object oriented, interpreted programming language, with the rest written in C for speed. In addition to the standard features (rectangles, ellipses, curves, text etc.) that you can expect from a vector graphics editor, Skencil also has some more advanced attributes like the possibility to bend text along a path.



sK1
From its project website, sK1 is described as an open-source illustration program that can substitute proprietary software like Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator. It supports professional publishing features like CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and press-ready PDF output. It also has CorelDRAW formats importers and tabbed multi-document interface. sK1 is a fork of Skencil and was started by a small team of Ukrainian professionals.



Karbon14
Karbon14 (formerly known as Kontour) is part of the KDE office suite (KOffice). The name is a play on KDE and the radioactive isotope Carbon-14. Karbon14 boasts a user interface that is easy-to-use, highly customizable and extensible. It is also loaded with great features making it ideal for anyone who wants to create clipart, logos, illustrations or photorealistic vector images.


Xfig
Xfig is an interactive drawing tool that runs under the X Window System. In xfig, figures may be drawn using objects such as circles, boxes, lines, spline curves, text, etc. It is also possible to import images in formats such as GIF, JPEG, EPSF (PostScript), and many others. Xfig saves figures in its native Fig format, but they may be converted into various formats.

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Much coolness

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Time to dust of that USB stick and browse in the shadows……

I’m sure I can think of a use for this scratches head

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Looks like this will be useful, easier than doing it in PS yourself :)

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Not a machine I had personally but did play on a friends one every now and again.

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Been using this for years, top download tip.

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Manipulate Vector Images with Open Source Inkscape [Featured Download] All platforms: Inkscape is an open source vector editing program. If you are looking for a free alternative to the Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape has a host of features that make it worth taking for a spin. read more Extensoft Free Video Converter - flexible, functional and competent Note: 1 of this post’s 2 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. Might be worth a try. http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_video_converter Extensoft Free Video Converter - flexible, functional and competent By Nigel on freeware Extensoft's Free Video Converter is a nice example of the genre. There are a load of these programs on the market, but I like the interface and speed of this one in particular. 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Woooo, right up my street Life GH Com Pipes Output Processing 1.0 Processing, the open source programming language designed for artists and other creative types, finally went 1.0. Processing inspired numerous outpourings of creativity and beauty, from interactive art installations to sound sculptures. Improvements to Processing include OpenGL anti-aliasing, an extensible Tools menu, and the XML library included by default. You can read up on the changes or download Processing and start playing with it yourself. read more Foxit Reader 3.0 Released Note: 18 of this post’s 34 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. My PDF viewer of choice. CyberNet Technology News Foxit Reader 3.0 Released By Ryan on Performance read more Lunascape Is Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer Rolled Into One [Featured Windows Early Adopter Download] Note: 19 of this post’s 20 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. Going on my download list. Life GH Com Pipes Output Lunascape Is Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer Rolled Into One [Featured Windows Early Adopter Download] read more Faster browsing with RAM disks Note: 4 of this post’s 19 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. Life GH Com Pipes Output Faster browsing with RAM disks A coworker approached us today wondering if they could get a performance boost using Samsung’s newly announced 256GB SSD. Most of their work is done in browser, so we said “no”. They’d only see benefit if they were reading/writing large files. Their system has plenty of RAM, and we decided to take a different approach. By creating a filesystem in RAM, you can read and write files much faster than on a typical hard drive. We decided to put the browser’s file cache into RAM. read more Spice up Your Desktop With Lightweight Wallpaper Shifter [Featured Windows Download] Note: 16 of this post’s 19 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. Life GH Com Pipes Output Spice up Your Desktop With Lightweight Wallpaper Shifter [Featured Windows Download] Windows only: Wallpaper Shifter is a lightweight wallpaper randomizer. The installation is 8.11MB which by portable-application standards isn’t super light, but the system resources consumed by Walllpaper Shifter are extremely lightweight. read more Nintendo DS Homebrew Note: 4 of this post’s 8 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. I’ve been getting extremely excited about the Nintendo DS home brew scene. The Spectrum and SNES emulators look like a win, also there is a Doom and Quake port available. Happy days…….. Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery read more Photo Filter Software Note: 18 of this post’s 30 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. gHacks technology news A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Photo Filter Software By Martin on windows software read more Opera 9.6 released Note: 24 of this post’s 27 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. My browser of choice for my aging home laptop and desktop computers. Download Squad Download Squad Opera 9.6 released By Brad Linder on opera-browser read more MediaMonkey Note: 5 of this post’s 8 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. I found the intelligent tag editor really useful. MediaMonkey 3.0.5.1187 MediaMonkey is a music manager and jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 audio files. It offers an intelligent tag editor which looks up missing Album Art and track information… read more GIMP 2.6 open source image editor launched Note: 16 of this post’s 22 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. Cut my photo editing teeth using this, need to download the new version. Life GH Com Pipes Output GIMP 2.6 open source image editor launched read more Firefox Universal Uploader Is Like an FTP Client for Popular Web Sites [Featured Firefox Extension] Note: 18 of this post’s 19 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. Another Firefox addon to add to my growing collection. Life GH Com Pipes Output Firefox Universal Uploader Is Like an FTP Client for Popular Web Sites [Featured Firefox Extension] read more VLC 0.9 Revamps Interface, Playlist Features [Featured Download] Note: 17 of this post’s 21 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. One for the download list Lifehacker Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don’t live to geek; geek to live. VLC 0.9 Revamps Interface, Playlist Features [Featured Download] By Kevin Purdy on Windows read more Convert & Extract Audio from Videos Note: 20 of this post’s 30 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. Music from video Life GH Com Pipes Output Convert & Extract Audio from Videos (Click to Enlarge) There have been a few times where I've wanted to extract audio from video files, but it's not always easy to find a free tool that can successfully do that. I highly recommend grabbing the free Pazera app if you ever find yourself in a similar situation. To make it even more useful the program also doubles as an audio conversion utility. read more Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Detects Wireless Networks [Featured Download] Note: 19 of this post’s 23 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published. Looks like a cool Wifi finder. Life GH Com Pipes Output Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Detects Wireless Networks [Featured Download] Windows/Mac/Linux: Free application Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor is a cross-platform Wi-Fi tool that displays available networks on a very cool radar map. More specifically, the app searches for Wi-Fi networks, displays strength, detects rogue access points, and helps you tweak your network for the best signal. The downside: Xirrus Wi-Fi monitor is only available in widget/gadget/desklet form. That means that in order to use it, on XP and OS X you have to install the Yahoo Widget framework, on Linux you have to install the Desklet framework, and on Vista you’ll need to re-enable the sidebar gadgets. That’s all somewhat of a bummer considering the whole widget craze generally went out the door circa-2006. However, Xirrus remains a worthwhile application with an unquestionably fun execution. Then again, if eye candy isn’t all that important, give previously mentioned NetStumbler (Windows) or iStumble (Mac) a try. read more 7 Best Linux Distributions for Multimedia Enthusiasts Note: 21 of this post’s 42 links is now broken — mostly deleted or made-private Flickr photos, dead Flickr farmN subdomains, and defunct feed-syndication infrastructure. Left as originally published. Free operating systems tailored towards being creative. TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL 7 Best Linux Distributions for Multimedia Enthusiasts By noreply@blogger.com (jun auza) on free/open-source read more Context Free Software Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes. CFDG is a simple language for generating stunning images. With only a few lines you can describe abstract art, beautiful organic scenery, and many kinds of fractals. It’s highly addictive! read more Endlos, free fractal program Endlos is written in Java so it works on any platform which has a Java runtime. A fractal generator with the following features: Platform independend: runs on any Java virtual machine (1.5 or later; 1.6 up to twice as fast!) Multithreaded: uses any amount of threads for faster calculation on computers with multiple cores/CPUs. Unlimited precision: use any amount of decimal digits for endless zooms (optimized 64 bit precision). Coloring: smooth interpolation; random color maps; color functions; over 1600 color maps available. Draw modes: choose between draw modes to see pixel, line, block or only full image result. Fast zooming: get an instant preview of the location you’re zooming into. Multi Fractals: calculate as many fractals as you like at the same time. Usage slider: set percentage of processor usage for fine grained system load (0% = pause). XML Fractal Settings: save & load your fractal settings. Flexible Formulas: change parameters of formulas to create totaly new images. Image formats: any file format supported by the Java virtual machine (PNG, JPG, BMP, etc.). Post processing: add effects to the final image (blur, emboss, spin, etc.). Printing: print your image directly from endlos. MIDI songs: yup, endlos plays MIDI files! E.g. these: Video Game Music Archive. Open Source: GNU General Public License (GPL). http://endlos.sourceforge.net/ Alastair’s Fractals Main Page, My Shop at CafePress, My Shop at Zazzle Sign My Guestbook © Alastair Montgomery 2008 read more Useful tools, Namexif Note: 4 of this post’s 9 links are now broken — mostly deleted or made-private Flickr photos, dead Flickr farmN subdomains, and defunct feed-syndication infrastructure. Left as originally published. Namexif™ is a tool to automatically rename photos with the date they were shot. Digital cameras have their own clock and record the date to each photos with a precision of a second. Since the date and time is recorded for each photos (provided it is an EXIF compliant digital camera), Namexif™ is able to rename these photos according to the date. # Doing so will: make chronological order same as alphabetical one, # set a unique name to your photos http://www.digicamsoft.com/softnamexif.html Alastair Montgomery’s Photography Main Page, My Shop at CafePress, My Shop at Zazzle Sign My Guestbook read more Create online photo albums Note: 5 of this post’s 8 links are now broken — mostly deleted or made-private Flickr photos, dead Flickr farmN subdomains, and defunct feed-syndication infrastructure. Left as originally published. PhotoOnWeb is a software to create your online photo albums. Easy for sharing your pictures on internet with your friends and familly. Sort your photos in multiple albums, pick a template and click on the Publish button. PhotoOnWeb will resize the photos, build the web site and publish a photo web album. You can host the pictures yourself with your own ISP web space by FTP or create an account on VSO’s server. No computer programming knowledge is required, HTML editing can be used for custom albums. The navigation in the online gallery is so easy you can browse through the pictures with the keyboard or mouse using your current web browser. Using Flash technology, you can use the full screen of your display to enjoy the details of the pictures: elegant and professional look and feel. http://www.photoonweb.com/en/ Alastair Montgomery’s Photography Main Page, My Shop at CafePress, My Shop at Zazzle Sign My Guestbook read more