Peng’s links for Thursday, 9 October
Posted by Peng on 9 October 2008
You’d think that with the Dodgers sweeping the Phillies Cubbies so early that I’d have more time to do blog posts. I’m still not sure where the last three days have gone, but I do have a few links for you.
- DesktopLinux.com: Google rev’s photo editor for Linux. Google’s Picasa, their image editing and sharing program, has gotten even better with the beta release of version 3.0. Not only is there better integration with web albums, a new collage tool, and an auto-red-eye removal, but one of the best things is the speed of loading. It used to be a case of click the launcher and go get a cup of coffee while it loads, but when I first launched Picasa after getting it upgrade it quickly showed the splash screen and asked about migrating my old settings. While there is a repository for Linux users to help you get updated more quickly you’ll want to add their test repo to get Picasa 3’s beta.
- Julian Saraceni: Appnr, searching and finding Ubuntu apps. I don’t usually post things I see on the Ubuntu Weblogs, simply to limit how many duplicate postings they get, but Julian has a great way to find packages without remembering what the heck they’re called. It doesn’t require a sign-up or installing software no included in Ubuntu’s repos to use Appnr, either.
- David Tutcher: Veza – An Opensource TinyURL Replacement (Aplha One). I love TinyURL, especially how easy it is to get a URI that doesn’t telegraph what the link goes to, but it’s not exactly open source. But there’s a new way coming down the pike that is 100% open source. Veza turns long URIs into not just short URIs but ones that are pretty easy to remember. I look forward to when there’s a bookmarklet that grabs the long URI and starts the process like there is for TinyURL, but that’s just a matter of time. (Yes, that post is kind of old, but I wanted to check it out more before I blogged it, and then I forgot to change the flag on it in Evolution so it would come up in my list of things to blog. Sorry ’bout that.)
I have news of an update to a favored program, but there’s a slight glitch in one file. The bug was reported and resolved, but until it makes the PPA archive so we can easily grab it I’m going to make you wait to see which app it is. Trust me, it will be worth the wait.
In the meantime, I trust at least some of you will be catching game one of the NLCS tonight. I plan on obeying a wallpaper I made for at least the next week or so.
