Entries on 'open source'
| December 08, 2008
Erika Castellanos us a new tool for open source 3D CrackArt:
"This tool is specialized in 3D area texturization.
The idea came several years ago, and over 4 years he has been working in spare time;) This month we have released to the community know, try and make it grow. It is true that there are several open source tools in the area of 3D, so our idea is not to have an exclusive, but on the contrary, complement and to enable people who have been working on other projects using the tools CrackArt of the advantages in terms of texturing is concerned.
On the website (www.crackart.org) find a video showing how to transfer a model textures in high resolution using a low-resolution texture baking tools and UV Atlas to create automated mapping coordinates.
CrackArt can import models using 3DS and FBX formats and includes plugins to import and export of 3dsmax, Maya, Blender ... "
Download CrackArt
| December 01, 2008
HD hard drives are not always so tough, physical problems when they should be replaced immediately.
Data Recovery
Easy recovery is an excellent software to recover data from an HD even after formatting. Other options are free Undelete Plus or Smart NTFS Recovery.
FAT32 format in Windows XP
The application Fat32Formatter lets you format a FAT32 hard drive in Windows XP. This option is useful for eg external hard drives media players that require this format for playback when connected to the TV.
Clone hard drives and / or partitions
The ideal is to have an image of security, business applications such as Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, or CloneZilla free and open source can be used to clone our hard drives (OS, programs and data) in a new or safety.
Checkdisk
If this did not take prevention and your disk fails, you can make a checkdisk from the Recovery Console with the Windows installation CD.
| November 25, 2008
PureEdit is a Content Manager (CMS) that can update the content of any website from a backend. This way you can save the job of creating such a panel of administration.
- It is completely free for commercial use and / or staff. Open-source GNU license.
- PHP 4.4.7 +
- MySQL 4.1.21 +
Guide: http://www.pureedit.com/docs/ [in]
Community: http://www.pureedit.com/community/
Download: http://www.pureedit.com/ (official site)
Manual for the use of Pure Edit [es] by desarrolloweb.com
| November 22, 2008
Four Elements descubiero not something that I never use a screen saver, but a special screensaver.
This is wordclock, designer Simon Heys.
Wordclock is a screen saver that displays the time with text:
- Flash
- for Windows, Mac OS X and the iPhone,
- available in many languages, including Spanish,
- two forms, texts and rotary
- you can set the font, kerning, alignment and interlined.
Simon Heys has released the code, you can see here.
They have a group on flickr where pictures are posted on Wordclock like:
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| November 13, 2008
Ilustritas is a project of rodbeh, the study of a graphic designer (and illustrator) Spanish-Brazilian who lives in Barcelona. The site is designed to create a community of small designers from 7 years.
The exercises are accompanied by tutorials and videotutoriales implementation of free open source vector drawing Inkscape. The "students" share their works and learn to draw. Surely there are more than one that happened long ago because the child is never too late to learn.
| November 13, 2008
Applications for digital image processing hundreds. Desktop applications and online publishers, professional and amateur, commercial and free.
Photoshop and GIMP are chosen by professionals, but now all we edit images. If you are not an advanced user, you do not have a powerful computer, you can not buy Photoshop or simply because you need a desktop app for quick simple edits I recommend Paint.NET
Do not be confused with Microsoft Paint, the application by default in Windows. Paint.NET is designed to replace at least useless Paint:
- It is free,
- weighed and consumes little
- allows layers,
- scalable, plugins,
- available in Spanish,
- infinite levels of history,
- friendly and intuitive interface,
- effects and adjustments,
- editing curves and
- any open-source application has a large community of users.
| November 09, 2008
Bloggers can post since the administration of WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType, Furjournal, LiveJournal, Windows Live Spaces, Sharepoint and a long list of free CMS or blogs.
Once configured and designed our blog is the most usual post, publish articles. All have a panel of administration with the option of publishing, writing. But there are also many other forms of post (extensions for web browsers, e-mail, desktop applications ...)
Many bloggers who post articles almost every day we need to optimize our work.
In total 25 different ways you stop publishing a post to send an article to your blog without using your admin panel. Unless specified otherwise are free:
- 5 Firefox extensions to publish
- 3 Online Publishers
- 17 publishers offline (desktop applications)
- By e-mail. For example WP> Options> Writing> Post by mail.
At the end of the article you leave an account of 9 plugins for Windows Live Writer and 5 useful extensions for Firefox-related blogs. ...
| November 04, 2008
This is the premise of the site Osalt.com (Open source software as an alternative to commercial). Now available in Spanish, osalta (Open Source Alternatives to Commercial Software) publishes alternatives to most commercial applications.
Examples:
Very recently published a series of applications for creating screencasts, 7 options for creating Videotutoriales, which can add the open source alternative proposed osalta: CamStudio.
Not only argue for free software also compares the soft spoken and trade, have done 2 tops.
The dichotomy underlying osalta I moved to pqpq.es DEIS to your opinion and you read those of others on these 2 models of software development:
Vs commercial software. Open Source Software
| November 03, 2008
It was clear that the PNG format was missing the opportunity to cheer and to replace outdated animated GIF only 256 colors. With the release of Firefox 3 sure this will give a talk.
Features
Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) is the unofficial format animated PNG supports 8bits and 24bits of color and transparency profuncidad part of pixels that a merger with a better background.
For GIF must say that it is supported on any browser and weighs much less than a APNG.
APNG vs. Animated GIF
Compare the typical spinning wheel common Ajax in both formats on a white background and a red background:
GIF on a white background:
APNG on a white background:
GIF on a red background:
APNG on a red background
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| October 30, 2008
I leave with you first that I know VisualBeta at a final list web applications, desktop and commercial gartuitas.
Capture Fox is an extension that captures video from your Firefox browser. For demos or videotutoriales.
Capture audio and exported as avi, only Windows XP and Vista.
Download Capture Fox
Other options for desktop video capture:
- TipCam: generates FLV AVI
- Wink the open source project for video capture, which is Gimp to Photoshop. Have Spanish language.
- ScreenToaster: web app, you do not need installation. Seen in SpamLoco time and only by invitation.
- BB Flashback: freeware version (Express) and commercial.
Professionals:
