http://www.freesoftwhere.org All the blog you can read Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:24:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2008/08/11/tomboy-for-the-notify/ http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2008/07/01/java-for-the-notify/ So KDE 4.0 is out now, prompting a swarm of disagreements about its purpose. The confusion stems from project members' simultaneous vaunting and celebration of the release and warning the public that it is a developer-only, development version that they shouldn't expect to work smoothly -- conflicting messages from ... http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2008/01/15/what-point-what/ Earlier this week, Eye of GNOME dev Frederico Mena Quintero blogged about EOG and image management. I think EOG is great and all, but the best part of the post was that he reminded me of the now-defunct CompuPic, a pro-level (sort of) photo management app that for a ... http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2007/11/02/trip-down-digital-asset-management-memory-lane/ Laugh factory of the weekend: Miguel de Icaza complaining about Apple's vendor lock-in and anti-freedom behavior -- http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Sep-15.html For a more detailed explanation of why this is hilarious, read either an analysis of the situation or brush up on some recent background information. [ed. note: this doesn't mean that De Icaza's observations ... http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2007/09/17/the-pot-calls-the-kettle-proprietary/ A story of mine at linux.com entitled "Three MythTV Linux distros compared" is receiving lots of hits this afternoon via Digg.  It's a head-to-head comparison of MythBuntu, KnoppMyth, and MythDora.  All three are Linux distros designed to install and serve as a dedicated MythTV DVR system. Yet in the real article, ... http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2007/08/28/orpples-or-omitting-linuxmce-from-a-mythtv-distro-roundup/ Our first winner: Siglar, which describes itself as an "acronym creation" application. Essentially, you input a series of words, and it generates an acronym from them. It's insane. But I love it. Although I suspect that most free software apps would benefit from something that does the reverse: ... http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2007/07/12/least-useful-application-of-the-week-july-12-2007-edition/ Here are some links to articles about professional graphics and photography on Linux. If you find a topic that I haven't written about, please let me know. Photography RAW image support under Linux (includes raw converter UFRaw) review of raw converter RawTherapee (v 1.1) review of raw converter RawStudio (v 0.5.1) review of raw ... http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2007/05/21/graphics/ What the world needs now is another blog. http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2007/05/11/its-true/ Please contact me using the form below. Paranoid? You can encrypt it if you want, but that is not required. [CONTACT-FORM] http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2007/05/11/contact/