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Manage Photos with Shotwell

When it comes to organizing and tweaking photos, digiKam and F-Spot rule the roost. But if you don't need all the bells and whistles of a full-blown photo management tool, then you might want to try Shotwell. If you are running the latest version of ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  17 Nov 2009

Creating Ebooks with Sigil

Sigil supports most common formatting options such as bold, italics, and underlined as well as different text aligning options. All these features can be accessed via the buttons on the main toolbar. With Sigil, you don't have to start from scratch: ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  9 Nov 2009

Color Management in digiKam

First of all, what’s color management? Color management is a process that allows you to achieve consistent color representations across different devices, such as digital cameras, scanners, printers, and monitors. The key concept in color management is ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  9 Nov 2009

Finding Geotagged Photos in digiKam

Need to find all the photos you took in France? You can use the Map Searches sidebar to do just that, provided your photos have been geotagged. Expand the Map Searches sidebar, press and hold the Ctrl key and select the desired region on the map using ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  5 Nov 2009

Geotagging Photos with digiKam

Even if your camera doesn’t support geotagging, you can easily add geographical coordinates to your photos using digiKam. In digiKam, select the photo you want to geotag and choose Image -> Geolocation -> Edit Coordinates. This opens the Edit ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  4 Nov 2009

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Speed up Photo Transfers with Rapid Photo Downloader

When you need to offload photos from a digital camera onto your computer, you can do this using the default browser, a photo management application, or a dedicated tool like Rapid Photo Downloader. Despite its name, transferring photos is only one of ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  17 Oct 2009

Five Super Simple Photo Fixes with The GIMP

While the GIMP offers a plethora of advanced and powerful photo editing tools, it also sports a few easy-to-use features that can help you to instantly improve your photos with a minimum of effort. Most digital cameras do a good job of figuring out the ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  10 Oct 2009

Installing Firefox on Puppy Linux

SeaMonkey, the default browser in Puppy Linux, is good, but what if you prefer Firefox? No problem, it takes only a few simple steps to install your favorite browser onto Puppy Linux. Download the latest version of Firefox from Mozilla's Web site. Use ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  26 Sep 2009

Using Eye-Fi Card on Linux

The Eye-Fi card is a nifty solution for adding wireless capabilities to virtually any digital camera, but it does have one serious drawback: the card relies on proprietary software that runs only on Windows and Mac OS X. Fortunately, the standalone Eye- ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  24 Sep 2009

WikiCrowd: Lightweight Wiki for Collaborative Editing

There are a few things that set WikiCrowd apart from other wiki engines. Take, for example, its installation procedure. WikiCrowd doesn't require any database back-end, so you only need a machine with an Apache server and PHP 5.2 for it. WikiCrowd ...

From DMITRI POPOV, LXer,  23 Sep 2009

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