Must-Have Programs for all you cheapskates out there (5 Viewers)

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Hey everyone.. I would like to share with everyone here the wonderful program that is the GIMP..
GIMP or, GNU Image Manipulation Program (something like that), is a freeware, open-source program for editing photos, graphics etc.. Just like Photoshop or Paintshop Pro.. It saved me from quite a bind..

Did I mention that it's free?

Learn more+Download: http://www.gimp.org/about/introduction.html

Second, to all those who don't have office, there's open office.. It has the basic essentials, and, like GIMP, is free..
Educate yourself: http://www.openoffice.org/

 

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[Martin]

my indoctrination efforts work

 

[Majed]

Didn't we have a whole thread about OOo? :undecide:

BTW, Tight avatar Martin...
I just noticed you lost your blue balls! :down:

 

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++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++
my indoctrination efforts work

Martin, you have introduced me to a new world of open source... I thank you for that..

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Majed ] ++
Didn't we have a whole thread about OOo? :undecide:

BTW, Tight avatar Martin...
I just noticed you lost your blue balls! :down:

Yeah, but it's deep in the slowness. Besides, it didn't mention the GIMP.

By the way, isn't the GIMP having a little trouble with patents (the very same problem that killed Martin's favourite media player)?

 

[swag]

GIMP? We use it all the time in the command-line batch processing where I work.

Funny that I recall downloading and using some of the first versions back when I first stumbled on it around 1997 or so. You never know which of these open source tools will have legs and which will die out sometimes.

 

[Chxta]

I'd still kill to find an open source version of Photoshop though. Still can't get my way round GIMP...

 

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++ [ originally posted by Chxta ] ++
I'd still kill to find an open source version of Photoshop though. Still can't get my way round GIMP...

You'll get used to it, if you have a free afternoon, and tinker around with it..

 

[Elnur_E65]

I am sticking to Photoshop

 

[Chxta]

ANyone knows some free software that I could use to create flash animations? ON a Linux platform prefarably...?

 

[Martin]

++ [ originally posted by mikhail ] ++
By the way, isn't the GIMP having a little trouble with patents (the very same problem that killed Martin's favourite media player)?

pardon? mplayer isn't dead, it's just heavily protesting the notion of software patents (directive was hosed in the EU thankfully). As far as I know they have no problem supporting the same formats they always did.

++ [ originally posted by swag ] ++
GIMP? We use it all the time in the command-line batch processing where I work.

Do you mean imagemagick?

 

[Martin]

++ [ originally posted by Chxta ] ++
ANyone knows some free software that I could use to create flash animations? ON a Linux platform prefarably...?

flash is very windows-centric because it's macromedia technology. there are efforts toward open source flash but I don't imagine they've gotten too far yet.

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++
pardon? mplayer isn't dead, it's just heavily protesting the notion of software patents (directive was hosed in the EU thankfully). As far as I know they have no problem supporting the same formats they always did.

Oh. :redface: The first (and last) time I visited their site, it had a nice "So Long and Thank's For All the Fish" message, and a brief paragraph explaining that it was the patents what dunnit.

 

[Martin]

Yeah they've been up in arms about it but there was always a link from the splash page to the actual site, where everything went ahead as normal.

2005.07.11, Monday :: software patent directive rejected
posted by Diego

With a truly overwhelming majority the EU parliament has rejected the proposed software patent directive last week. This is a great victory for the movement against software patents and a relief for free software and all of the software industry in Europe and worldwide. It is also a great personal satisfaction for myself and other members of the MPlayer team that have been actively lobbying against software patents. Rejoice and be happy for this was a grand day indeed.

Nevertheless all that glistens is not gold and while we have won an important battle, this struggle is far from over. There are still thousands of software patents that have already been granted in Europe. Furthermore efforts to extend patentability towards software will now continue on the national level and probably return at the EU level in a few years. Thus we have to continue our fight to fend off software patents completely and worldwide. For this we need the help of all community members. You have to keep a watchful eye on your political representatives, inform them about the issues at stake and make sure they pass sensible legislation.

but also:

2005.04.16, Saturday :: MPlayer 1.0pre7 "PatentCounter" released
posted by the release team

 

[mikhail]

Cheers for that. Must get my hands on a copy after all!

 

[Chxta]

Martin, is there a way to have different wallpapers in each of one's workspaces on the desktop?

 

[gray]

++ [ originally posted by Chxta ] ++
Martin, is there a way to have different wallpapers in each of one's workspaces on the desktop?

by workspace, what do you refer to?

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Chxta ] ++
Martin, is there a way to have different wallpapers in each of one's workspaces on the desktop?

In KDE, you can have your wallpaper rotate every X minutes among a collection of your choice. I have that going. I don't know of anything like what you're looking for though. It sounds reasonable, so someone's probably got it implimented.

 

[Martin]

Yeah, I believe there is. Are you using gnome? I've seen the option in kde myself..

 

[gray]

Ahh right, I assumed he was talking Windows :undecide: