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You can get the latest issue of the free Blender magazine, BlenderArt #19, from their website here.

This issue’s topic is Rigging and Constraints! Read More »

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I did a presentation today at Warwick University titled “Open Source Development on the Entertainer Media Center”.

It went well and there were plenty of questions about the project afterwards. The presentation was created in OpenOffice and you can download the file here [3069kb].

I had to get a nice template for a presentation I’m creating.

Here’s a couple of links to OpenOffice.org Impress templates that I found.

http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/free-open-office-impress-templates-91.htm

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/SunTemplatepack_1

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/oxygenoffice-english-templates

If you know of any other free template links for OOffice, please comment.

I recently contacted Audible.com’s helpdesk to see if they had updated their status on linux compatibility. They hadn’t (i.e. still no support), so I asked the following question:

“Are there any plans to add support for Linux in the future?”

The reply was interesting…

“There aren’t much talks in supporting Linux in the near future and we don’t have much information regarding when it will become available. We will be making a full transistion next year to Amazon.com’s operating systems so anything is possible.”

Hmm, Audible are going to use Amazon’s operating systems. This could be good news if this means that they’ll be going down the mp3 route that Amazon have been using for their music section. Not only would that make Audible’s collection Linux compatible but iit would also open up the number of mp3 players that could play their audiobooks.

Just came across the Sockso Personal Music Server project. Here’s instructions on how to get it going…

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This is a short HOWTO for adding a road to the OpenStreetMap project using the BGT-31. Read More »

I recently got a BGT-31 GPS device from www.storagedepot.co.uk in order to map out Derby for the OpenStreetMap project. It arrived today and the first thing I needed to get working was the downloading of waypoints and track points from the device.

After some googling, the best way was to download a perl script from splitbrain.org called navilink.pl

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A new handwriting font called rufscript has been released by Hiran Venugopalan under the GNU GPL version 3 + Font Exception.

A link to the Hiran’s blog is here and UbuntuGeek.com has installation instructions for Intrepid and Hardy here.

It seems that to encode videos for the PS3 in Ubuntu you need to use ffmpeg, however when I tried to do this the first time I ran into problems because I was using the version from the hardy-proposed software repo. To get it working you need to use the packages from medibuntu.org. Read More »