http://free-your-media.net A weblog on open source multimedia technologies: graphic design, web development, video editing, audio software, open source games, Creative Commons, Linux... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:41:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've recently discovered Creating Drew – a blog on web development, design, also providing the tips for a successful website. I found there at least several interesting posts, and I would like to share two links to the articles published by the author of the blog. http://free-your-media.net/2008/08/19/10-great-sites-for-gimp-tutorials-and-guides/ This article appeared last month at Gimpusers.com portal. The author lists 14 important changes implemented by developers in Gimp 2.6. The article is available here. http://free-your-media.net/2008/08/15/whats-new-in-gimp-26/ Bryan Knowles explains at Gimpology website how to create faux 3D landscapes, using The Gimp. Two parts of the tutorial are available here and there. A plugin (Script-Fu) which allows to do it, is also available (3d Landscape Generate). http://free-your-media.net/2008/08/11/how-to-use-the-gimp-to-make-3d-landscapes/ Linux Mao published a short list contaning links to websites, which may be useful for checking, if your audio hardware is currently supported in Linux. http://free-your-media.net/2008/08/07/linux-compatible-audio-hardware/ Creative Commons Blog published an interview with partner of CASH Music – part music label, part creative community. Jesse Von Doom presents CASH's goals, their business model, and plans for the future. http://free-your-media.net/2008/08/03/cash-music/ OpenOffice.org Blog provides an interesting tutorial on creating data entry forms from scratch, and saving them as PDF files. All you need is OpenOffice.org Writer. http://free-your-media.net/2008/07/31/creating-forms-in-openofficeorg/ Screencasts are quite popular and useful tool, especially when you want to present how exactly works some application, and how to use it. Screencasts can be saved as video files, and published on YouTube and other video-hosting websites. However, there are also tools which enable us to create screecasts stored ... http://free-your-media.net/2008/07/28/byzanz-screencasts-in-gif-files/ If you are dealing with 3D graphics, it may be useful to know, that there is not only Blender available for Linux users. Some other application are also provided. OSGEdit is one of them. http://free-your-media.net/2008/07/25/creating-the-3d-scenes/ If you are a blogger, you probably have a long list of things you want to comment in the coming days, some useful links you've found in the internet, and photos / audio files / videos. It is a great idea to keep it in the single place, using application ... http://free-your-media.net/2008/07/23/organize-your-notes-using-notecase/ If you want to publish your own e-zine, or you are a student who wants to prepare presentation or a report, then you should definitely try out Wyneken. It is a content-oriented text processor that makes your life as a student easier by allowing you to create and manage digital ... http://free-your-media.net/2008/07/21/wyneken-a-content-oriented-text-processor/