http://www.freesoftwhere.org All the blog you can read Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:48:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Way, way back in aught 7, I wrote this rarely-read piece about the trials of converting the legacy PhotoCD (.pcd) format into something useful on a modern day computing machine.  The principle problem was that since no new files were being produced in .pcd format, the knowledge of how to ... http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2009/06/01/photocd-conversion-ii-photometric-boogaloo/ If you haven't already, please go over to this Pledgie campaign page and make a modest donation to help support the best volunteer-driven event for people who use free software and love graphics: Libre Graphics Meeting 2009. LGM is half-workshop and half-conference; developers that work on all sorts of graphics programs ... http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2009/03/02/only-you-can-prevent-lame-free-graphics-software/  From the XFM Web site: Salient points, in order of increasing importance*: (1) XFM's browser detection is correct (2) XFM understands that codecs are the stumbling block in streaming media, not browsers or operating systems (3) XFM understands that a variety of apps are available and that I could have one that works :.  XFM ... http://www.freesoftwhere.org/2008/11/24/xfm-not-smarter-than-you/ 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/