Saturday, May 10, 2008

Puppylinux 4.00


Beberapa waktu yang lalu puppylinux-4.0 telah dirilis oleh barry kauler sang maintainer yang asal Australia. Puppylinux yang asli dikembangkan di negeri kanguru tersebut sejak versi 3.00 kompatibel dengan slackware 12. Jadi bagi anda yang menginginkan aplikasi tambahan dapat menggunakan paket-paket slackware. Namun bukan berarti ia berbasiskan slackware (turunan slackware), karena ia dikembangkan berdasarkan release sebelumnya yang memang dibuat secara mandiri menggunakan utility T2-Porject. Hanya saja beberapa paket system disesuaikan dengan slackware sehingga kompatibel dengannya.
Bagaimana dengan versi 4.0, apa saja perbaikan dan kelebihan yg ditawarkan? anda bisa mendapatkannya disini. Pada release ini seluruhnya telah menggunakan basis system GTK-2 dan tidak lagi menggunakan GTK-1 dan Tcl/Tk. Hal ini untuk menjaga konsistensi user inteface dan tentunya mengurangi ukuran iso image.
Dalam percobaan penulis bootupnya terasa lebih cepat, masih menggunakan JWM window manager dan ROX-Filler sebagai file manager. di versi teranyar ini Puppy menggunakan aplikasi-aplikasi GTK2 semacam Fotox (image viewer), Gwhere (disk catalogger), Prename (batch file renamer), gFnRename (batch file renamer), Pfind (file search), Pprocess (process manager), Chtheme (GTK theme chooser), Pidgin (multiprotocol chat client), Gadm-Rsync (GUI for rsync), Wireless Autoconnect, Gtkam (digital camera interface), Xsane (scanner interface), ePDFView (PDF viewer), Pschedule (cron GUI), Osmo (personal organiser), Pcdripper (audio CD ripper), RipOff (audio CD ripper), mhWaveEdit (audio editor), Pburn (CD/DVD burner), MTR (traceroute), Pnethood (Samba client), Pwireless (wireless scanner) dan banyak lagi.
Untuk menginstall aplikasi tambahan menggunakan PETget yang sangat memudahkan. Menurut pembuatnya (belum saya coba), rilis kali ini mendukung penu utk scanner, camera, dan printing karena driver telah built-in. Untuk multimedia berfungsi dengan baik. Berbagai format audio dan video dapat dimainkan dengan mulus.
Untuk melihat review beberapa distro mini linux anda bisa melihat referensi berikut :
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/26480

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Manual OpenOffice.org

Kebutuhan Manual OpenOffice.org 2.0 sewaktu migrasi sangat penting. Karena manual ini akan lumayan membantu user yang pengen belajar lebih jauh tentang OpenOffice.org 2.0.


Tutorial Offline

Versi bahasa Indonesia dalam fotmat PDF disediakan pihak LIPI. Yang butuh bisa ambil dari link ini: Manual OpenOffice.org 2.03.tar.gz. Simpan aja di server local. Sehingga user bisa akses dan baca dengan mudah pake pdf reader.

Sedangkan versi English, sepertinya di Ubuntu sudah ready juga. Coba install dengan cara ini:

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-starter-guide

Cari aja di folder /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org-starter-guide. Dijamin lebih komplet n lebih keren deh. Ada baeknya di konversikan ke PDF dan di satukan dengan manual bhs Indonesia yang sebelumnya dibahas.

Tutorial Online

Tutorial online penting juga. Untuk nambah sumber bacaan. Beberapa point yang gak ada di edisi offline, bisa ditemukan disini. Coba pelajarin dari situs ini:

- http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org
- Lengkapnya cari aja di http://support.openoffice.org

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

40+ Plugins GIMP

GIMP terkenal sebagai raja image editing pada platform Linux, dan sepopuler photoshop pada platform Windows maupun MacOS. Dengan dukungan komunitas pengembang yang sangat besar bahkan pemakainya yg lebih besar tidaklah mengejutkan jika GIMP begitu populer.
Sebagaimana Firefox, GIMP diperkuat dengan tambahan plugins, yang dikembangkan oleh komunitas opensource. Sejak dikembangkan oleh usernya sendiri GIMP tumbuh menjadi aplikasi yg sesuai dengan apa yang mereka harapkan dan melengkapinya dengan berbagai macam plugin.

Banyak diantara pengguna GIMP adalah seorang web-designer dan photographer dimana mereka juga membenahi berbagai bug yg terdapat dalam setiap releasenya. Jika anda tertari untuk mencobanya silakan dapatkan di link berikut GIMP

Berikut saya sertakan beberapa link penyedian plugins GIMP:

Web Design

  • Snow: Generate realistic 3D snow. Caution: Requires large amount of memory and swap memory.
  • Anti-aliasing: Smoothen and fix straight lines.
  • Adaptive contrast enhancement: Intelligent adjustment of contrast.
  • Fourier Transformation: GIMP plugin version of Fourier Transformation.
  • Refract/Reflect: Refraction effects to simulate falling water drops.
  • ShapeIt: Bend text or image according to information in map layer.
  • Borders: Add borders to your image.
  • SoapBubble: Create bubbles. Contains two versions, for GIMP v2.2 and v2.4.
  • Aqua Bou: Create web buttons in ‘Aqua Bou’ style easily.
  • Chrominium: Create a chrome logo with glow and sparkles.
  • Cloud Generation: For easy creation of clouds. Updated to work with GIMP 2.4, the latest version.
  • Gothic Glow: GIMP’s version of Gothic Glow action, originally for Photoshop.
  • Liquid Rescale: Content-aware rescaling. Keeps the features of the image while rescaling along a single direction.
  • Particle Deposition: simulates particle deposition on a surface. It generates small particles with random size and velocity and lets them fall onto the surface where they settle, increasing surface height in the place a bit.
  • Stampify: Make your image look like a postage stamp.
  • Plasma2: Newer version of the original Plasma plugin for GIMP.
  • SaveForWeb: Find optimal compromise between minimal file size and acceptable quality of image quickly. Useful for designers.
  • Steel Text: Create a text effect that looks like shiny steel (or gold) and a dropshadow.

Photography

  • Pandora: Stitch together multiple images to make a panorama.
  • Film Grain: Add film grain for a classic feel, to BW images.
  • Black Ink: Transform an image to a B&W drawing made with ink.
  • Copyright Text: Add a copyright text to image.
  • DeNoise: Noise reduction plugin using a modified Gaussian blur algorithm.
  • DustCleaner: Detect and remove the dust spots in digital image.
  • Astro-plugins: A set of plugins for astronomical image processing.
  • FocusBlur: Makes an image out of focus with luminosity and depth.
  • Lomo: Make photos clear, sharp and crisp. Especially useful for outdoor photographs.
  • ISO Noise Reduction: Implements an ISO noise reduction, using different methods (masking the edges, then blurring the individual color channels or the lumimance channel only).
  • Photo Effects: A bunch of scripts brought together in one script-fu file. Contains cartoon, color pencil, conte crayon, cutout, Drawing, ink pen, note paper, paint dot image, palette knife, pastel, stamp, water paint effect, wrap effect, angled strokes, crosshatched, chrome image, cross light, funky color, soft focus, solarisation, brick wall, patchwork, stained glass, texturizer, high pass, scroll effects.
  • RedEye: Quickly remove red eye effect caused by camera flashes.
  • ShadowRecovery: Recover image information in darked regions.
  • Shadows/Highlights: Eliminate shadows and highlights in photographs.
  • Refocus: Opposite of FocusBlur(listed above), this refocuses images. Provides better results than Unsharp masking which is built into GIMP.
  • PhotoToolbox: Perform several actions on a photo at once such as defocus, desaturate (several papers emulations), toning, add grain.
  • Light Filter: Provides basic filtering by adjusting colour levels of each pixels.
  • Gradient Along Path: Strikes a vector applying a gradient orthogonally to the path.
  • Landscape painter: Creates interesting paint effect that looks best with landscapes.
  • EZ Improviser: Improve dull, dingy images.
  • Edgy: Make an image look edgy.
  • Digital IR: Simulate a black and white infrared image.
  • Colour saturation: Change the color saturation of your image.
  • Blot: GIMP avatar of BlotBrush. Based on blot algorithm and works well with spatter or cloudy image.
  • GimpPublishr: Publish images to Picassa and Flickr directly from inside GIMP.

Miscellaneous

  • GIMP Dewierdifyer: (for Windows) Get rid of common window annoyances in the GIMP. It adds a background window that sits under GIMP. It groups other GIMP windows into one, so that when you’re alt+tabbing to other apps, only one icon of GIMP gets in your way.
  • Turing Pattern: Renders a kind of Turing pattern.
  • Yin-Yang+: A seemingly useless plugin, but fun nonetheless. Add yin and yang symbols. Also optionally add drop-shadows.

Further resources

  1. Writing a GIMP plugin: Plugin guide in PDF, HTML, archive and XML formats.
  2. GIMP plugin template: A blank plugin template that has the basic structure and reduces the time required to develop a plugin considerably. The direct link is currently here, but may change in future (if it changes, click the link on “GIMP plugin template”.
  3. Writing plugins: Another guide for writing plugins, this one from GIMP.org’s developer site.
  4. Writing Plugin: Another guide at GIMP.org main site.