apps

2009.06.19

2009-06-23

apps,photography So, I’m on a quest to find a photo organization tool for Linux (or, on a later note, for any OS) that does some things like… Allow me to apply metadata to images, like comments and groups and tags (preferably hierarchical) Store the metadata IN THE ACTUAL IMAGE, IN A STANDARD FORMAT. This also means it will probably need to support IPTC or XMP, preferably XMP.…more

2009.06.15

2009-06-23

video,apps MediaCoder - “a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution.” Only natively works on Windows, but came in handy trying to re-encode some video at work after I found that fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ liked to either crash or screw up the encode (on Windows at least as I know I’ve used it without problems on Linux) CamStudio - An open source screen recorder (screencast?…more

2009.06.14

2009-06-15

technobabble,links http://www.cbkihong.com/index.pl?op=perltut - A tutorial on Perl from Bernard Chan that I found helpful apps,linux http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/116353 - Article on Siag Office for those who don’t feel like using any remotely mainstream office applications editor,cheatsheet http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif - A Vim cheat sheet that is essential to me. programming,scheme Is Scheme Faster than C? - An oldish article about some interesting performance benefits found in Scheme hack,wii http://www.…more

Notes 2008.06.01 - 2008.06.07

2008-06-07

Technical stuff Red Hill Technology - decent articles pertaining a lot to old x86 hardware TRIPS (utexas again) - “developing a new class of technology-scalable, power efficient, high-performance microprocessor architectures called EDGE (Explicit Data Graph Execution) architectures.” and I’ve got at least one technical paper that’s been on my computer for over a year that I’ve put off reading somehow Programs and stuff Xournal - " Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus.…more

More scrap notes, starting 2008-04-18

2008-04-18

2008.04.something “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society” - Farhad Manjoo (Amazon) - in a way, a more factual approach to people judging by “truthiness” rather than truth “Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think” - George Lakoff (Amazon) - who knows, might be interesting 2008.04.18 People that some guy labeled as “hard left”: Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klei…more