1. GIMP – The GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

2. digiKam

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX. The people who inspired digiKam’s design are the photographers like you who want to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs under Linux systems.

3. Fotoxx

Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use. Navigate a large image collection with a thumbnail browser, click on images to view or edit. Import camera RAW files and edit with 16-bit color. Save edited images as TIFF-8/16, PNG or JPEG with adjustable compression. Edit the whole image or a selected area, with smooth edge-blending. Edit functions have live feedback using the full window. Add tags, dates, star-ratings, comments and captions to images and search using these criteria plus image file names. Fotoxx uses your image files wherever they are. All user-supplied image data (tags, comments, ratings) is saved inside the image files in a standards-compliant manner (EXIF, IPTC), and can be shared with other photo programs. Fotoxx maintains an index of searchable attributes for nearly instantaneous searching.

4. Splashup Light 1.0 By Faux Labs

Taking some cues from Splashup, Splashup Light also has powerful tools for advanced image editing enthusiasts like Levels, Hue – Saturation and Brightness – Contrast. Together with standards tools like rotate, crop, resize and many fun effects, Splashup Light is a well-rounded photo editor perfect for those that don’t need or want heavy desktop image editing suites.

5. Shotwell 0.8.1 Open source photo manager for GNOME by Yorba Foundation

Shotwell is a digital photo organizer that runs on Linux. It is the default photo manager in Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15.

Shotwell 0.10 is here! Major new features include:

• Dynamic views of photo library through saved searches
• Integrated video thumbnailer, eliminating Totem dependency
• Adjustable date/time for videos
• More flexible crop tool
• Automatic database backup
• Automated testing framework

6. Pencil 0.4.4b

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

7. Gnome Paint 0.4.0 by Rogério Ferro do Nascimento

Gnome-paint is a simple, easy to use paint program for GNOME. It is inspired by MS-Paint.

8. F-Spot Photo Manager

F-Spot is a cross platform application for organizing thousands of photos. It shuns ‘organizing in folders.’ instead, metadata is the basis for viewing and drilling down the collection. Adding and maintaining metadata is easy and enjoyable in F-Spot.

Individual photos can be retouched and globally corrected (e.g. dynamic range, color), for sharing via the net, printing and viewing by consumers. The number and sophistication of the correction scales to the the ambition of users. An advanced form of corrections is that of batches of photos.

Beginners in the digital photo field can easily start using F-Spot. These and more advanced users are encouraged by F-Spot to grow their skills, to the point where they integrate more specialized photo manipulation software into their F-Spot workflow.

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There is a desktop session recorder for Linux called recordMyDesktop that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it’s primary task.recordMyDesktop offers also the ability to record audio through ALSA, OSS or the JACK audio server.

To install recordMyDesktop

Go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager,type recordmydesktop in Quicksearch field.

Right click gtk-recordmydesktop,select mark for installation.Mark to be install in next window.

Then click Apply button to start install recordmydesktop.

2.  How to create a screencast in Fedora or Ubuntu – Record My Desktop

Screencasts of your desktop are very useful in demonstrating programs and for video tutorials. “recordMyDesktop” is a very easy to use tool for creating screencast under linux. By using recordMyDesktop you can record a widow or the whole desktop with a single click. You can save the video as ogv.

3. Create Screencasts on OpenSuSe with recordMyDesktop

A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when you’re teaching someone how to do something on a computer, and recordMyDesktop is a great little Linux application for creating screencasts. YouTube is full of recordMyDesktop screencasts showing all kinds of captures, including Compiz in action.

4. Linux screencasting tool ‘Kazam’ updates, gains bug fixes galore

Screencasting made simple is the ethos behind Linux screen-recording tool ‘Kazam‘ and the latest release sees it hammer home this point with improved features and a slew of bug fixes.

So lets get down to the specifics of what’s new in the 0.11 release: –

• Kazam finally has a logo, created by Robert McKenna
• You are able to select which screen to record from
• You can now ‘pause’ in screencasts
• Options to choose video and audio quality
• Easier selection of upload URL
• Ability to go backwards from export window
• Warning when overwriting
• The biggest improvement in Kazam 0.11 doesn’t come in the shape of new features, as welcome as they are, but in the big improvements to overall stability.

5. How to create a screencast? at AskUbuntu

Really helpful Q&A thread on AskUbuntu

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Do you ever pull your hair out trying to hand-edit all your tags with some arcane editor? Tell your inner OCD to take a hike because Cowbell is coming to town.  Cowbell is an elegant music organizer intended to make keeping your collection tidy both fun and easy.

Infused with Amazon Web Services SOAP-fu, Cowbell can whip your music platoon into shape without even getting your boots muddy. And, if that isn’t enough to make you want to rush to the Download link, Cowbell can also snatch album art and rename your music like a pro.

Cowbell is available for most current Linux distributions including, but not limited to: Ubuntu Breezy/Dapper, Debian Etch/Sid, Fedora Core 4, FreeBSD, Gentoo

2. Helium Music Manager 7.3

3. EasyTAG – Tag editor for MP3, Ogg Vorbis files and more

EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or Windows.

The program exists for the both versions of the GTK library 1.2 and 2.4.
The GTK 1.2 version wouldn’t change a lot (may be some bugs fixes), as all new developments will be concentrated on the new GTK 2.4 version.

4. Jajuk Advanced Jukebox

Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music. It is a full-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections. Using multiple perspectives, the software is designed to be intuitive and provide different visions of your collection.

5. Banshee

• Search – Search your library or a playlist to find what you want fast.
• Playlists – Put your tracks into playlists, optionally with custom ordering.
• Smart Playlists – Create playlists that automatically include any matching tracks.
• Play Queue – Queue tracks in an ad-hoc playlist, or let the Auto DJ take over
• Shuffle Modes – Shuffle (or Auto DJ) by artist, album, rating, or even songs’ acoustic similarity.
• Banshee is packaged for many Linux distributions like openSUSE, Ubuntu, Foresight, Fedora, Debian, Mandriva & Mac OS X

6. Exaile | Music Player for GTK+

Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many portable media players, internet radio such as shoutcast, and tabbed playlists.

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KPDF is a pdf viewer based on xpdf for KDE.
Being targeted to home users it has some very unique features to enhance your reading pleasure in addition of doing everything you can expect from it.

2. Adobe PDF Reader

Adobe Reader has become the standard for reading ebooks and documentation online. For Windows, there are 3rd party readers like FoxIt that can be substituted, but on Linux, the best choice is still Adobe Reader.

3. Evince – Simply a document viewer

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.

4. GNU GV

GNU gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a graphical user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter.

gv is a improved derivation of Timothy O. Theisen’s Ghostview, originally developed by Johannes Plass.

5. Xpdf

Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called ‘Acrobat’ files, from the name of Adobe’s PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities. Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems and should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler. Xpdf is designed to be small and efficient. It can use Type 1, TrueType, or standard X fonts.

Xpdf should work on pretty much any system which runs X11 and has Unix-like (POSIX) libraries. You’ll need ANSI C++ and C compilers to compile it. If you compile it for a system not listed on the xpdf web page, please let me know. If you can’t get it to compile on your system, I’ll try to help.

6. E-book reader

FBReader is an e-book reader. Supports several open e-book formats: fb2, html, chm, plucker, palmdoc, ztxt, tcr (psion text), rtf, oeb, openreader, non-DRM’ed, mobipocket, plain text, epub

7. ePDFViewer

Lightweight pdf viewer based on poppler libs. The aim of ePDFView is to make a simple PDF document viewer, in the lines of Evince but without using the GNOME libraries.

8.  ViewPDF

ViewPDF is an application to view and navigate in PDF documents. Key Features * Zoom * Keyboard shortcuts for fast navigation

9. PDF-Shuffler

PDF-Shuffler is a small application which allows to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

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Ubuntu can be hard, frustrating and confusing for new users. Hope these Ubuntu tips will help newbie users to learn and understand Ubuntu shortcuts easily.

1. Undo all the changes to line – Alt-r –

2. Execute last command in history – !! –

3. Install some more fonts by typing these commands – New Fonts

sudo apt-get install ttf-aenigma
sudo apt-get install ttf-liberation
sudo apt-get install ttf-fifthhorseman-dkg-handwriting
sudo apt-get install ttf-sjfonts
sudo apt-get install ttf-breip

4. Execute last command in history beginning with abc !abc –

5. Trash files instead of deleting them sudo apt-get install trash-cli –

6. Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line – Ctrl-u

7.  Execute nth command in history – !n

8. Expand command line – Alt-Ctrl-e

9. Replace first occurrence of abc with xyz in last command and execute it – ^abc^xyz

10. Moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurrence of x – Alt-Ctrl-] x

11. Move to the start of the line. –  Ctrl-a

12. Move to the end of the line – Ctrl-e

13. Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen. – Ctrl-l

14. Moves the cursor forward to the next occurrence of x – Alt-] x

15. Command Line Web Browser – sudo apt-get install links

16. Delete from the cursor to the end of the line – Ctrl-k

17. Pastes text from the clipboard– Ctrl-y

18. Delete from the cursor to the start of the word – Ctrl-w

19. Play Old MS-DOS Games – Install Dosbox, create a folder called “dosbox_c” . Then using Dosbox, unmount the “dosbox_c” folder and then switch to it by typing “C:”

20. Ctrl-x Ctrl-u – Undo the last changes.

21. Command History Search – Ctrl-r

22. Command Line Image Manipulation

sudo apt-get install imagemagick
sudo apt-get install asciiview

23. Non-incremental reverse search of history – Alt-p

24. Log in automatically

Go to System > Administration > Login Window.  Then type your password and you will get the Login Window Preferences with 5 tabs, Choose Security tab and click and Enable Automatic

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