I use gimp as the main post process tool for my photographs. Which is anyway a very powerful tool. But most of the options available there are not required for me. Looked for another application which  is lighter and powerful at the same time. I tried showfoto long back, never liked the UI that time. Thought of giving another try tonight.

I have a 0.10.0-beta5 installed in my F-9 system (the package came from rawhide though). After starting the application default options(buttons to click) look much lesser, cooler for eyes :)

I opened my raw image in it, took some time but came finally(Is there any chance to make it a bit faster ?). The first thing I tried was to adjust the level, found the desired dialogue after two clicks. All other basic required options are there in the color menu entry including brightness/saturation/channel mixer. Btw, F10 and F11 buttons will help you to see under and over exposed places in the shot.

Here is a snap edited in showfoto.

You can find my other shots here.

It seems I can now use it for post processing, which also means I am back to digikam once agian :)

So, if you want to play your favourite song/movie on OLPC use Jukebox.activity. Started working on this for the last few days after Sayam pointed me to the activity. It was almost in a stagnant condition.

My PyQt mind was someway different than writing this PyGtk stuff :) Sayam helped a lot.

The following features added as of now:

• Full Screen option
• Volume Control support
• Supporting m3u playlists
• Internet radios through m3u files.
• Next/Previous buttons , if you open a playlist with more than one song

Will do a formal release within this weekend. I have a .xo file ready for testing. Please provide your feedback :D

If you want to start writing your own activity , start from this.

This is a new weekly video podcast news. It is having two sections, general news and Fedora specific bits. The first edition is having many errors(human errors mostly) , will fix them in the next editions :)

Download the ogv (164MB).

You can find the original work here. Thanks to misthi and unmanindu for helping in translation.

Rahul Sundaram, long time contributor to Fedora talks about how he started working on Fedora. Watch it on Youtube or download the ogg.

The opening talk was a keynote by Greg Kroah-Hartman. Read it here.

I started tv.dgplug.org a year back when I first saw http://screencasters.heathenx.org/ for inkscape tutorials. In the last one year I tried to maintain it by hand written htmls (desgin was done by nomind). But found it too difficult to maintain, also people were asking for rss feeds.

Also I had to provide .flv files so that people can watch the videos online. Again maintaining files in two different format was painful and .flv is not a free format.

Finally I decided to move to wordpress and only ogg files will be provided from now on.

Debarshi will take a session on linked lists at #dgplug tomorrow 8pm IST. This is a part of the summer training sessions

Ksnapshot, the photographer in your computer. This application helps you to take screenshot or snapshot of your system. You can use those screenshots to describe your problem/points in a better way. It can even take snapshot of any particular window or a region. You can even add some delay, after which it will take the snapshot. Watch the video here.

Okular, the universal document viewer. It can open different file formats. Few formats are:

• PDF
• PS
• Tiff
• CHM
• DjVu
• Images
• DVI
• XPS
• ODT
• Fiction Book
• Comic Book
• EPub