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Author Topic: Share your great software here... Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 08-21-2011 01:13 PM                     Actually, I'd say making the GUI isn't all that hard. The company chooses to use whichever toolkit they want (which'll probably be either GTK or QT). Then they say "We've tested this on X, Y, and Z distros. These are the supported distros." And then they tell them that if you're running another distro, then you're on your own and have to get support from the individual distro. Also, pretty much every distro has support for using the "other" toolkit for GUI's even if their desktop uses a different one. And even if they only made linux releases in the form of .deb or .rpm packages, the majority of distros out there that don't use those have packages that allow for installing from them in that case. And on the "I have something that won't work in wine/linux" issue, there's always the possibility of running virtualbox/vmware/xen for emulation and these are certainly more robust than wine.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-25-2011 10:11 PM                     Is your hard drive clooged up but you have no idea how that's possible? WinDirStat will tell you exactly where and what's on your drive and help you free up valuable space. Link  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 09-29-2011 12:50 AM                     Microsoft Sysinternals Suite The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities: AccessChk AccessEnum AdExplorer AdRestore Autologon Autoruns BgInfo CacheSet ClockRes Contig Coreinfo Ctrl2Cap DebugView Desktops Disk2vhd DiskExt DiskMon DiskView Disk Usage (DU) EFSDump FindLinks Handle Hex2dec Junction LDMDump ListDLLs LiveKd LoadOrder LogonSessions MoveFile NTFSInfo PageDefrag PendMoves PipeList PortMon ProcDump Process Explorer Process Monitor PsExec PsFile PsGetSid PsInfo PsKill PsList PsLoggedOn PsLogList PsPasswd PsService PsShutdown PsSuspend RAMMap RegDelNull RegJump RootkitRevealer SDelete ShareEnum ShellRunas SigCheck Streams Strings Sync TCPView VMMap VolumeID WhoIs WinObj ZoomIt  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 10-29-2011 12:58 PM                        I just came across this Shisen-sho game in Java (so it will run on Windows, Linux, Mac and whatever else). It's really beautiful. http://www.admoore.de/javashisen/jshome.html  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 12-13-2011 03:51 PM                        LyX is a document processor that works in a way that's completely different from modern word processors like MS Word or Libreoffice. It works from styles, which you can look at as being somewhat related to filling out a form, more or less elaborate depending on what you're writing. If you're writing a document that has a rigid or repetitive format like a thesis or research paper, an instruction manual or even a letter, LyX is probably easier and faster to use than a standard word processor. After you learn to use it, of course. LyX can do clever things like automatic tables of contents and bibliographies, lists of figures, and even document references like "see footnote 6 on page 12". It matches up the page numbers and stuff for you. It can even do a plain old single-page memo or a shopping list if that's what you need. It comes with several useful styles included "out of the box", there are a huge number of other styles available for download, and you can create your own. By way of example, for writing business letters and invoices you might want to look at the koma-letter style. LyX isn't hugely complicated for a beginner to use, but it does involve a different way of thinking about your document and your writing than what you do with a word processor. The idea of LyX is that your computer is not a typewriter so you shouldn't have to worry about centering a line of text, aligning a table, placing a footnote or numbering a subsection. You write the content and let the computer format and typeset it for you using the style that you prefer. A good introduction to how LyX works is here.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 01-02-2012 11:24 AM                        After almost four years of intensive work, the Scribus team has released the new stable version 1.4.0 of the Open Source desktop publishing program Scribus. Scribus is an Open Source program for professional page layout with press-ready output to PDF files. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. It's available for Linux, Mac and Windows, and it's absolutely free. Details here  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-02-2012 12:18 PM                        Sony makes terrible cinema products but I really like their video editing software. Vegas Movie Studio Platinum is the version I have....it's not expensive but has a lot of features you wouldn't expect in a "consumer" product. I also like Sound Forge Audio Studio for sound stuff. www.sonycreativesoftware.com  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 01-04-2012 02:22 PM                        FAX MANAGER - FAX Cover Sheets and Database Program I just wrote this program more-or-less for the hell of it; mostly because I wanted an excuse to play with TEX output, plus I still send the occasional fax so it'll be handy. I don't know how many of you send faxes, but if you do, the price is right for this program (free): Details here  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-11-2012 07:51 PM                     I need some freeware that will allow me to access Mac-made files on a PC. I found something that does it perfectly, but it's only a 5-day trial. MacDrive Anyone know of any freeware that'll do the same thing?  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-12-2012 02:54 AM                     Assuming you actually mean to access MAC discs (like that macdrive program allows you to do) then HFSExplorer is something to look into although I've never used it myself. http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-13-2012 08:13 PM                        A handful of things I now can't live without: Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) -- if you use more than one computer, put a Dropbox on each one. Then save any files you might need at multiple places in your Dropbox. It automatically synchronizes the files on all the computers. You can also share files with anyone by sending them a link to your Dropbox. 2GB of storage is free (and I got an extra .5 GB after I installed it for filling out a survey). Team Viewer (www.teamviewer.com) -- allows you to log into your computer from any other computer. You can either install the program on machines you own, or if you're at someone else's machine you can run it from the Team Viewer website. It also can transfer files between machines. The non-commercial version is free. This has saved me countless troubleshooting hours on the phone with my mom and mother-in-law. Filezilla (www.filezilla.com) -- Everyone probably knows about this one, but it's a really good and fast FTP utility. I know there are a gazillion others out there but this one is quick and easy to use. PDF Creator (www.sourceforge.com) -- installs a "printer" on your machine that will create a PDF from almost any program that prints. This resurrected my old PageMaker from oblivion -- PageMaker for some reason can't make PDFs in Windows 7 on its own, but using PDF creator allows it to work. Fotosizer (www.fotosizer.com) -- Terrific tool for resizing batches of photos. You can resize them by measurement or by percentage, in whatever resolution you want.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-15-2012 05:18 AM                     Thanks Chris. Yes, that's what I meant...I'll give it a try. PDF Creator is a beaut. Drag a Word document file into the program and bingo...instant PDF.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-15-2012 01:53 PM                     I haven't tried Dropbox yet, but probably will soon. We use Cisco's WebEX software at my workplace; it has some similarities to Team Viewer, but it isn't a free application (we couldn't use TeamViewer honestly for free either). For FTP stuff, I use BladeFTP (another free FTP application). I rarely use third party PDF creators since I have all this Adobe-branded software. The free PDF creators are certainly better than nothing. OTOH, more and more applications are building in their own PDF-creation features. Fotosizer can be pretty handy for people needing to do things like get an entire folder of digital camera photos re-sized and re-sampled to post on Facebook (and avoiding long wait times from uploading the large images). Certain image editors can batch process in similar fashion. Adobe Bridge and Photoshop are both good at this, with Photoshop being more powerful if you want to drop an "action" of recorded photo image editing steps onto a whole folder of images.  |  IP: Logged Tom Mundell Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Silver Spring, MD, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 03-15-2012 02:09 PM                        Is there any good way to do batch photo resizing that takes the image orientation into account? I've been using either Photoshop or Preview (on OSX) and I end up having to go through the tedious exercise of doing vertical and horizontal images separately otherwise they both end up the same width which isn't what I want. Also, with Photoshop it asks for what jpeg quality setting you want with each picture; anyway to select a default so I don't need to continually confirm the setting? I might just be setting up the batch process wrong, but I haven't figured it out yet...  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 03-15-2012 04:12 PM                        ImageMagick  |  IP: Logged

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