ArtistX is a free live GNU/Linux DVD which turns a common computer into a full multimedia production studio proclaims their website.
The live distro is based on Debian and includes all sorts of audio, 2D & 3D graphics and video software packages. Since it’s a live distro, that means you don’t need to reformat or install anything to use the programs (it does however mean to save anything you will need to have some sort of storage like a hard drive, usb drive, etc)
From their front page:
A partial list of softwares included in the DVD:
- 2D Graphic Software: Gimp, Inkscape, Nip2, Krita, Cinepaint, Synfig, Rawstudio, Skencil, Hugin.
- 3D Graphic softwares: Blender, Wings3D, Kpovmodeler + Povray 3.6, K3D.
- Video softwares: Cinelerra, Kino, Openmovieeditor, Kdenlive, Pitivi, Avidemux, Devede, and many others.
- Video and Music players: Mplayer, Helix Player, Videolan, Xine, Kaffeine, Kmplayer, LastFM and many others.
- Music software: PD and externals, Rosegarden, Ardour, TerminatorX, Cecilia/Csound, Gnusound, Mixxx and many others.
On the DVD you can find about 2500 multimedia softwares, practically everything made for the GNU/Linux platform.
So, if it looks interesting to you, their website can be found at http://www.artistx.org/
Posted in Linux, Linux Utilities.
From http://www.stashmymail.com
Ever wished you backup your email easily? Now you can. Use StashMyMail to quickly copy all of your email into an easy-to-download, easy-to-view archive.
StashMyMail is useful if you:
1) Want to make sure you have a backup of your emails
2) Need easy offline access
3) Want to quickly download all your attachments
4) Your email account is getting full
5) You are closing an account
First, you start by entering your email account information (for any IMAP or POP3-enabled email account). StashMyMail can then login and begin its work. StashMyMail.com will copy all the emails it finds into one convient ZIP archive file. You can then download this ZIP file and easily expand it’s contents onto your PC. All emails are saved in standard text and html file formats, which means you won’t need any special software to open your archived emails. For your privacy, your emails are never stored on our servers.
Currently the service is free, but they do mention a cost at some point, not a major one, $1.98 a month it would seem unless they change it too.
Posted in Web Utilities.
Main Window
Synkron is a multiplatform Qt application designed for synchronising two or more folders.
Apart from doing synchronisations, it provides many other additional features. The user interface of Synkron is divided into several sections: Synchronise, Multisync, SyncView, Scheduler, Restore, Blacklist and Filters. To switch between these sections, use the toolbar.
Check it out at their website.
Posted in Linux, Linux Utilities, Windows, Windows Utilities.
Mostly just posting this as a reminder to myself, but for anyone else that may find it interesting, a safe way to optimize pacman under Archlinux for speed is to do the following:
pacman-optimize && sync
Basically, it’s like a defrag on the database, trying to organize it together so it can be accessed quicker and more efficiently.
Posted in Archlinux.
Some people are scary. Janella Spears (who the website even explicitly mentions is no relation to Britney, wtf?) is a “nursing administrator”, teaches CPR and her husband is a reverend apparently gave $400,000 to a nigerian scammer. Are people really this dumb?
http://www.katu.com/news/34292654.html
Posted in Random.
Well, once again I have decided to update this site and maybe try and keep it updated more often. Seems I keep planning on doing it and I never quite manage to do it. Usually when I look at the site again, I end up starting from scratch as there are a lot of updates and not many posts. We’ll see how long this time lasts.
Posted in General.
