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Zen Mind Map

Will — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:24:21 +0000

Tools on the web for research and knowledge orgainzation are really growing. This site – wikimindmap – will take any term and create a mindmap using entries and appropriate links from wikipedia.org. It does this in English and currently five other languages. Click on the above mindmap to activate all the links. Try this out with your own search term and you will be amazed.

funkalicious

Will — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:16:39 +0000

My attempt at a funkalicious style logo.

I’ve been watching Richard Querin’s fabulous screencasts on the Inkscape and here is one of my practice logos using his latest tutorial.

There is a great new project started by our friends over at buddhistgeeks.com called “Buddhadharma 2.0″. Ryan from buddhistgeeks.com started an interactive, community built mindmap of the “emerging Buddhadharma 2.0″. Here is a link to see the map and here is a link to the background information. Let me know if you want to participate and I’ll send you an invite to MindMeister so you can sign up and start contributing to the map. Cool stuff.

ubuntube

Will — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:43:44 +0000

Coming Soon!

http://doc.ubuntu.com/screencasts/

A quickly collected list of useful bash shell shortcuts

Will — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:40:01 +0000

These all work in the Gnome Terminal. Handy if you can remember them.

Ctrl + a – Jump to the start of the line
Ctrl + d – Delete from under the cursor
Ctrl + e – Jump to the end of the line
Ctrl + k – Delete to EOL
Ctrl + l – Clear the screen
Ctrl + r – Search the history backwards
Ctrl + t – Swap last two characters
Ctrl + w – Delete last word
Ctrl + u – Delete backward from cursor
Ctrl + y – yank or paste

Alt + c – Capitalize the word
Alt + d – Delete word
Alt + l – Make word lowercase

Here “2T” means Press TAB twice
(string)2T – All available commands starting with (string)
2T – Only Sub Dirs inside including Hidden one
$2T – All Sys variables
! – Repeat command from history where # is line number
!$ = last argument of last command

Let me know if you have any to add to this list.

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Subversion Nautilus intergration

Will — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:23:38 +0000

Nautilus is Gnome’s file manager. One of its features that I enjoy is the little function called nautilus scripts. When navigation the file tree with nautilus, there are a group of scripts available anytime on the right mouse button. Here is a link for beginners to help you get started with these scripts.

As part of my work with Ubuntu’s documentation team, I’ve been learning an application called Subversion. Subversion is an open source application for revision control. It is the tool used to develop and maintain all the documentation and keep everything sync’d up between contributors.

I saw a post by Christer Edwards over at ubuntu-tutorials.com that got me going in this direction. Here’s how I added svn functionality to nautilus. Enjoy!

In a terminal -

sudo aptitude search nautilus-script

p   nautilus-script-audio-convert   – A nautilus audio converter script
p   nautilus-script-collection-svn – Nautilus subversion management scripts
p   nautilus-script-debug           – Simple nautilus debugging script
p   nautilus-script-manager         – A simple management tool for nautilus scripts

sudo apt-get install nautilus-script-collection-svn

The following NEW packages will be installed:
nautilus-script-collection-svn nautilus-script-manager

nautilus-script-manager

Usage: nautilus-script-manager {enable script-name|disable script-name|list-enabled|list-available}

nautilus-script-manager list-available

Subversion

nautilus-script-manager enable Subversion

Please restart nautilus to get an updated menu. (I didn’t need to restart nautilus, YMMV)

Ubuntu Screen Casts

Will — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:13:14 +0000

http://quickones.org/

Matthew East of the Ubuntu Documentation Team pointed me to a great series of screen casts. Alan Pope of Ubuntu-UK has created some cool introductory videos/screencasts. There a quite a few screencasts and look for new ones coming in the future. The sound quality is great and Alan has a great way of pacing the action. I highly recommend these and I’ve learned a nugget or two watching them. I’ve just got to figure out how to do this as I really feel these screencasts are the wave of the future.

I think the grand daddy of the screencast in this format is Jon Udell. Formally of Infoworld, Jon continues to evangelize the practicality of screencasting. Screencasting on Ubuntu has been difficult but the challenges have been overcome.

gnome-open

Will — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:00:26 +0000

gnome-open: Open Anything from the Command Line — Carthik Sharma posted this on Ubuntu-Planet and wow is this ever cool. Here is a simple way to open files in their associated GUI application right from command line. All this without having to remember which application opens which file. Let gnome handle the details. Carthik has samples and tips for adding this gem to your aliases. Thanks for sharing Carthik.

Shiny Floor Effect

Will — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:06:50 +0000

Working with the Inkscape. Found a tutorial show how to do this logo with photoshop and it only took about 42 nanoseconds to convert what I saw to Inkscape action. This is where I work and I’m going to slip this into the next presentation I have to do. Let the coolness flow.

Here is a link to the original photoshopit post.

A Quicky Glass Globe

Will — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:53:43 +0000

How I did it.

Above is my “Quicky Glass Globe” as I learned from Richard in Beeton, Ontario. Richard lives about 45 minutes South of my birth place Barrie, Ontario. My dad was stationed at Canadian Forces Base Borden back then. We migrated West to Calgary when I was only a few months old so I have no recollection of it.

Enough biographical drivel! Richard has blessed us with a great screencast using the Inkscape to produce the above graphic. He’s done the MacGyver and creates a mic stand out of tape, camera tripod, coat hanger and a pair of nylons. I had heard the there were lots of issues synchronizing sound with screencast in Linux but those problems must have been overcome. Richard has inspired me to give it a try. Now, I’ll have to come up with something to screencast.

Thanks Richard, I found it useful and the sound was just fine.

Drive-by Abstract

Will — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:15:34 +0000

Holiday Abstract

Just a quick photo and related link. Nothing of interest here so just move along.

I’ve posted about how I do this before. Abstracts are very difficult to do effectively but I’ve proved that they are to easy hack at. One of the best at abstract photography is Sophie. A French photographer that creates little projects for herself in the abstract realm and really has the touch. Each group of images ties together nicely and none seem out of place. Each image evokes a feeling and is not stale. Louis is her newest model and what a fine one indeed!

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