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pony 0.4 released
I just released Pony 0.4 into the wild. It came out with a 2 days delay :(
Pony is a KDE based image manager. The main feature is to create Collections out of removable devices and watch/search the thumbnails offline (when the media is not attached).
New features in this release:
- shortcut key ‘u’ to get the upload to flickr dialog
- Hot keys: Now one can assign hotkeys using numeric key board , right now only %f (selected filename) is supported there.
Download the source or you can use this yum repo for Fedora 11.
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translation-filter 1.0 released
A massive jump in the release number and now we have translation-filter 1.0 :) Download the source from here.
What is translation-filter ?
It is a tool to imporve l10n quality by helping in finding different corner cases. This is being developed as a part of aukur.org.in . It is having two GUI(s), one Gnome and one for KDE and a command line version. Couple of the features are only available in the command line version.
Different features of translation-filter:
- It can search for word(s) in a given directory or some selected files. The result will be saved as an HTML file or can also be seen in the command line. By using this features one can check consistency of usage
- It can create single word based list from the given .po files. It will contain both the term and translated string(s)
- It can check for any unattached dependent vowel sign. Right now it can find that for the Indic languages. Like ি and া can not sit beside
To know more about different options read here.
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lekhonee v0.6 released
I just released lekhonee v0.6 . Download the source.
For RPM(s) , download from koji.
New features and fixes:
- Preview option fixed in the KDE based frontend, old menu based options removed
- Editing option for the last 10 blog posts. Users please tell me if you need to get more
- Insert Link error in the gnome frontend is fixed
- Add categories is also working under gnome frontend (forgot to write code in the last release)
- “Save Draft” option on the gnome frontend is also working (Again forgot to write the code)
If you want to go back from the “Old Posts” list in the gnome frontend , just select anything the list and press “Escape”, in KDE one, there is a button on top to handle this.
To edit the entries you have to double click on the post title.
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OLPC Pune meet and photo management
This Sunday I went to OLPC Pune meet to give a talk on activity development. The students seem be very enthusiastic. The talk lasted for around 2 hours. Photos can be found here.
On the other side, I was looking for a photo catalogue software which can catalogue my photos on DVD or any other removable media, it should also allow me to search them based on EXIF data and tags and should show thumbnail(s) in the result.
I generally use digikam and gthumb too manage and view the photos. In digikam I never being properly able to catalogue photos on DVD (never tried on the last few updates) and gthumb is too slow in showing the thumbnail or full screen views for the large size photos I take. I prefer gthumb over over digikam to view the photos due to the simpler UI.
Finally decided to write my own app for this, which will *not* have any editing features, Gimp is the tool I use for editing. Watch this video (3.2MB) and please comment if the thumbnail creation / viewing is fast or not ?
Localisation is important
It is not just a comment , it is a Truth.
It becomes difficult when someone tries to translate technical documents as we don’t have proper words in our own language to describe all these technical/buzz words.
Few days back I suddenly got a mail from Jaganadh G telling that he started translated my small python book in Malayalam. You can see his ongoing work here. I am very sure that this is going to help many people to understand things easily as they will be reading in their mother toung.