FotoWall 0.2

FotoWall is a wallpaper generator (with a simple but nice interface) rendering some of your favorite pictures in a nice and smooth high resolution composition.

The interface is intuitive:

• drag multiple pictures inside fotowall
• use the red button on the lower rigt corner to resize the picture
• use the green button on the lower right corner to rotate the picture
• press the “del” button after selecting a picture to remove it from the composition
• move the mouse on the corners to change various colors in an extremely cool way
• advanced: double click on resize or rotate to reset rotation/aspect ratio.
• advanced: the mouse wheel changes the depth of the photos
• add titles to the images
• save the fotowall to a png image

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Related Links
Download page at Softpedia.com: Link
Download Page at qt-apps.org: Link
Screenshots: Link

Manslide 1.9.10

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Manslide is, with a very attractive interface, a tool for generating slide shows with 3D effects. To mention a couple hightlights - with a click on an icon the photos are editable in GIMP and you can add sound track to your slide show.

 

 

 

 

Related Links
Manslide page at Softpedia.com: Link
Manslide page at qt-apps.org: Link

ShowImg 0.9.5

ShowImg is a feature-rich image viewer for KDE including an image management system. It is highly configurable and supports numerous image formats.

Features/Highlights:

• display JPEG, PNG (alpha layer supported), GIF, XCF, PSD, etc. files
• open several directories, and archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .zip, rar, …)
• apply filters to displayed image
• preview, fullscreen, slideshow, “fit-to-screen”, efficient zoom
• open files with external programs
• support EXIF header (JPEG file metadata)
• display a hexadecimal view
• play your video files
• configurable interface

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Related Links
Showimg Home Page: Link
Screenshots: Link
Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface): Link

Kirocker Music Display 4.0

Kirocker Music Display is both a panel applet and a full-screen display to see what you’re listening to in Amarok/a fun karaoke with automatically-scrolling lyrics. Comes with several skins, more skins are available on kde-look.org (see related links at bottom of post).

 

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Related Links
Kirocker Download page at Softpedia.com: Link
Kirocker Skins: Link
Amarok: Link

Miro

Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player. You can download it here for Windows, Mac, or Linux. The Linux version of Miro uses GStreamer or Xine to play videos. Xine supports: MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8, QuickTime, Theora, and more. GStreamer has varying levels of support: Theora and AVI are well-supported; MPEG 1 is supported but has licensing issues; AAC and H.264 are not well-supported.

System requirements for Linux:
500Mhz CPU with a good video card, 1GHz without, 128MB RAM.

Few of the highlights:

1. Watch free Internet video channels
2. Save YouTube videos, Google Video, Dailymotion and more
3. Subscribe to any video RSS feed, podcast, or video blog
4. Download Bittorrent files and watch them in Miro
5. Play virtually any video file - Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID and more
6. Browse your collection, make playlists

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The Miro Home Page: Link

Elisa Media Center

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Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center solution designed to be simple for people not particularly familiar with computers. With Elisa you can enjoy:

	Watch your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows.
	Watch your movies and video clips as well as online ones.
	Manage your music collection by artists or albums covers.
	Elisa automatically finds media on your network, from network drives, ITunes, Windows Mediaplayer, Rhythmbox, etc.
	Automatically detects IPods, cameras, USB hard drives, etc.

A few of the possibilities and highlights:

1. Elisa Media Center runs on any computer connected to a monitor or a television. Elisa has several interfaces adapted to the different types of screens.
2. Elisa’s goal is to be universal. The software will function as well on desktops (PC, MAC, etc.), games consoles (PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox, etc.) and on embedded devices (portable video players, advanced GPS, PDAs, etc.).
3. Elisa supports a huge number of audio and video formats like MP3, AVI, DivX, Ogg/Vorbis and Theora, Flash Video, Windows Media, etc.
4. Elisa automatically detects the connection of all types of USB disks, photo cameras or MP3 players.
5. Elisa integrates itself smoothly with the multimedia systems of different platforms:- Windows: SMB/CIFS shares, Windows Media Player, Zune, etc.
   - Apple: ITunes, IPod, AppleTV, Frontrow, etc.
   - Linux: Banshee, Rhythmbox, etc.
   - Games consoles: X-box 360, Playstation 3, etc.
   The list of supported devices is regularly evolving.

Screenshots & Screencast: Link
Elisa Media Center Home Page: Link

aMSN - MSN Clone

For prior Windows users who had grown accustom to MSN there is a clone titled aMSN (Alvaro’s Messenger) with support for plugins and skins. Very maintained, a few of the many features offered are as follows:

• Offline Messaging
• Voice Clips
• Display pictures
• Custom emoticons
• Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
• Sign in to more than one account at once
• File transfers
• Group support
• Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
• Chat logs
• Webcam support
• Ability to autoclose the filetransfer window when it is finished
• View more about features..

Click here for screenshots.
The aMSN project Home Page.

Install Photoshop CS2 on Your (K)Ubuntu PC

This article on Softpedia features a easy to follow step by step instruction on how you can get Photoshop CS2 running functionally on ANY Linux distribution without any hacking, using the latest Wine version (to date) - 0.9.54.

The installation and configuration instruction include either upgrading an older existing Wine version or a full fresh installation if not on computer already. Either way, the article introduce a simple way to get the latest (to date) version of Wine.

This worked well for me and now I have Photoshop CS2 running smoothly on my Kubuntu Gutsy x86_64. Experiencing no problems. Thanks Wine team.

Article found here: Install Photoshop CS2 on Your Ubuntu PC

Related links:

Wine HQ

Adobe 

Gmail notifications for the KDE systray

This is the KDE version of Gnome’s checkgmail for the systray, kcheckgmail. KCheckGMail is a simple KDE systray application that notifies when new email is received in a Gmail account. Available in multiple languages.

Download page: Here.

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Songbird 0.4 - Software

Songbird is a “desktop media player mashed-up with the web” that “challenges the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.”

In other words is this software both a music player and a web browser, that also brilliantly has integrated SkreemeR “The World’s Greatest Mp3 Search Engine” which enables you to search for and download music off the net very simple.

Songbird is well developed and maintained and there are many extensions and themes available. The software is available for download on the Songbird’s nest (x86_64) on this link: Here, and on getdeb.net (32 and 64 bit) on this link: Here.

Songbird also has a page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)

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