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Friday, December 16, 2016

News: FileZilla - the free FTP solution

The FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
This software working with multi-platforms: Linux, Windows, MacOS.
Today I saw this month - December 2016 come with news about FileZilla software.
The good news from the official website is:
  • Key file paths entered in the Site Manager are now saved to corresponding server entries in the transfer queue 
  • MSW: Work around a bug in wxWidgets causing bad icons in the remote directory tree due to wxImageList::GetBitmap errorneously stripping the alpha channel from images 
  • Allow relative paths and environment variables in the "Cache directory" setting. 
  • Work around a bug in wxWidgets that has been causing a virtually infinite loop when deleting toolbar buttons 
  •  Speed up icon scaling and cache scaled icons for faster subsequent loading. The cache directory can be changed through fzdefaults.xml using the "Cache directory" setting 
  • OS X: Fixed icon display on high-DPI displays in a few more dialogs 
  • Loading a corrupted layout.xml or search.xml no longer shows an error message, these files are now silently overwritten 
  • MSW: Fixed a regression where UNC paths where not handled correctly as config location in fzdefaults.xml
You can download it from here.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Earth - issues from satelite.

This great images and issues from satellite can be found into this gallery.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

News: A new image format for the Web.

The news comes from here.
WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster. WebP lossless images are 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs. WebP lossy images are 25-34% smaller than comparable JPEG images at equivalent SSIM quality index. Lossless WebP supports transparency (also known as alpha channel) at a cost of just 22% additional bytes. For cases when lossy RGB compression is acceptable, lossy WebP also supports transparency, typically providing 3× smaller file sizes compared to PNG.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

News: Google come with Neural Machine Translation.

In 10 years, Google Translate has gone from supporting just a few languages to 103, connecting strangers, reaching across language barriers and even helping people find love. At the start, we pioneered large-scale statistical machine translation, which uses statistical models to translate text. Today, we’re introducing the next step in making Google Translate even better: Neural Machine Translation.
We can learn more about Google translate here.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

News about the Firefox browser.

Come with download protection for a large number of executable file types on Windows, Mac and Linux.
The team improved performance for SDK extensions or extensions using the SDK module loader. This new version comes with Guarani (gn) locale.
One of the good features is WebM EME Support for Widevine on Windows and Mac but nothing about Encrypted WebM streams.
As you know the Encrypted WebM streams are encrypted at the block level with AES-128 CTR encryption.
The AES encryption takes way lesser processing time than decryption.
Last come with new two updates to keyboard shortcuts:
 - set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order;
 - view a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac);

About the new Firefox version 50.0, you can read here.

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Fedora and Krita software.

I used most time Gimp software and was great. Even I try scripting under gimp and works.

Today I will told you about Krita software.
The Krita software is a great tool to make animation and 2D content and works with many operating system. You can donate to help this software by using this web page. 
You can also help the team by using your skills under some issues from this web page.
The first animation and instant Preview support was come with 2.9 beta-version.
Now under Fedora come with version 3.0.1.x and is need to install kde libs.
You can read the documentation of this software here.
I see has many and beautiful patterns and also you can use your graphic tablet like input device.
The instalation of this software is very easy, just type this commands under root account:
$su
#dnf upgrade
#dnf search krita
#dnf install krita

Monday, October 31, 2016

News: Free books from OReilly.

I saw OReilly books in the past and are very great books.
I like paper books, but the free books come with epub, mobi and pdf formats.
Now,  OReilly.com offering free ebooks about computer programming and development.
You will see ebooks about javascript, python, C++ and Rust and many free ebooks.
You can download all free books from here.

News: OpenStack Summit - videos.

About OpenStack summit:

The OpenStack summit is a unique opportunity for the developers and users of OpenStack software to meet and exchange ideas. Hundreds of the core developers will be on site to discuss all things OpenStack. Summits include in-depth technical discussions, hands-on workshops, and the full presence of almost every player in the OpenStack Ecosystem. If you are deploying OpenStack—or considering how it can help your enterprise—there’s no better way to connect with the community 
than the OpenStack Summit. 

Videos of demos and case studies from the Barcelona OpenStack Summit are going online.
See all videos here.

Area: Barcelona, Spain Date:October 25-28, 2016

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

ASCII - art of sense.

This is a part o my ASCII database: 

♫♪ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ♫♪                         Boombox
__̴ı̴̴̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡*̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡̡.___          House on the beach
♫♪♬                                       Music
c[_]                                         Cup
¯\_(ツ)_/¯                               Smile
︻╦╤─                                   Weapon
▇ ▅ █ ▅ ▇ ▂ ▃ ▁           Equalizer
▁ ▅ ▃ ▅ ▅ ▄ ▅ ▇           Equalizer 2
[̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]                                 $100
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Saturday, October 22, 2016

News: Krita 3.1 second beta.

The Krita 3.1 beta comes with full features and fixes.
The Linux version to download your krita-3.0.91-x86_64.appimage.
The most useful features can you be found into this 2D software for drawing:

  • ffmpeg-based export to animated gif and video formats;
  • the OpenGL canvas is fixed;
  • will officially support OSX
  • fixing bugs on Windows and Linux
  • the beta still contains the colorize mask/lazy brush plugin
  • expecting to experiment with new algorithms, but with the next release
You can read more about this here. 
Krita comes with this free copyright for Krita

Krita is free software under the GNU Public License, Version 2 or any later version at your option. This means you can get the source code for Krita from. The license only applies to the Krita source code, not to your work! You can use Krita to create artworks for commerical purposes without any limitation.

Krita Shell Extension comes with MIT copyright. Krita Shell Extension
The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2016 Alvin Wong

Friday, October 14, 2016

The US$250,000 in prize.

Mozilla team are excited to launch our global Equal Rating Innovation Challenge.
The US$250,000 in prize monies will be split in three categories:
  • Best Overall (key metric: scalability)
  • Best Overall Runner-up
  • Most Novel Solution (key metric: experimental with potentially high reward)
The submissions open in 17 days.
You can read more about this project here.
The Mozilla post can read here.

Friday, October 7, 2016

Design - Steps into tickets - the Track ticket.

The first step in this is to make sure that the subject completely designs team fedora.
A second step is to check the validity according to legal terms.
In this category are the rules established by the international community and the team's fedora.
The process seems simple but requires time and cooperation.
Let's see some example:
Example 1: The python logo can be used according to the python official website:
The Python Logo Projects and companies that use Python are encouraged to incorporate the Python logo on their websites, brochures, packaging, and elsewhere to indicate suitability for use with Python or implementation in Python. Use of the "two snakes" logo element alone, without the accompanying wordmark, is permitted on the same terms as the combined logo.
Example 2: The Fedora logo usage:
These are the official brand and logo usage guidelines for Fedora. Usage of Fedora and related logos must follow the guidelines as specified below. All users must also comply with the official trademark guidelines.
Trac has a built in small and powerful wiki rendering engine and used Wiki markup to fill your issues.
You can add files to your ticket and used comments to solve it.
Now the Fedora design team used trac.
The official webpage told us about trac:
Trac is a web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system emphasizing ease of use and low ceremony. It provides an integrated Wiki, an interface to version control systems, and a number of convenient ways to stay on top of events and changes within a project. Trac is distributed under the modified BSD License. The complete text of the license can be found online as well as in the COPYING file included in the distribution.
When you open a new ticket you need to fill with all info and data to make it to make it solvable.
Also, it would better to be discussed in team meetings fedora design because this will brainstorms ideas and will avoid comments or any inconsistency with another ticket or usage of output. When you used to open the new ticket then you may use WikiFormatting .
The new Create New Ticket comes with some field:
Properties - all about this ticket:
Summary - is more like a title, and is a little summary of the ticket.
Description - is the description of the ticket and has at least three components completed in order
to facilitate the work will solve the ticket and come with the three components:
= phenomenon =
= reason =
= recommendation =
The type - is the type of ticket and this will put into the area of interest and that will show us the interaction with the understanding of which will be part of the final component will be.
Type:
- Design and Tools Education
- Digital Artwork;
- Print/Swag Design;
- Release Artwork;
- UX/Interaction Research and Design;
- Web Design;
- Team Maintenance;
Priority - will determine the team needs intervention and is four:
release blocker
high
medium
low
Severity - represent the complexity in solving this ticket
- Quick & Easy
- Moderately Involved
- Long-Term / Complex Issue
Keywords - the unused part but that could solve many problems in the management of packets,  logo, banner, wallpaper, badget, foss, devel-team, infra-team
Cc - indicates those who are to receive a copy
The next edit box is used for the owner, blocking issue and put to work: Blocked By, Blocking and Owner.
The next step is resolving proper, comments remediation work and finally, upload the ticket closure.
Although it seems simple in real completing the final result emerges by differentiation with similar components in the online environment in terms of the one he sees and the one working in similar areas of design.
My point: The best results are obtained not through cooperation at operational management. They appear as the sum of the factors involved in platforms and solutions implemented for the design team members. Therefore their knowledge is very useful.

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Fedora 25 Alpha and processing.

About processing, you can find more from processing website.
Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology. There are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning and prototyping. 
Is simple to use. You can use with Java also with python and android mode.
Come with many examples and tutorials.
Today I tested with Fedora 25 alpha.
I download the 64bits tgz file. I extract the archive into my home user.
I used the binary file to run it and I install some modes from menu Tools and them Modes tab.
I run one simple code to see if is running without errors.
And working well, see the result:

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Linux application Flowblade version 1.8 .

This video editor is a multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux released under GPL 3 license.
I try to use also with Fedora Linux distro ( Fedora 25 alpha) but not work for me.
I don't see in Fedora anything like python-gi-cairo.
Also, I put this issue under GitHub project, maybe will be fixed.

According to the official webpage, the software comes with:

Features

Editing:

    3 move tools
    3 trim tools
    4 methods to insert/ overwrite/append clips on the timeline
    Drag'n'Drop clips on the timeline
    Clip and compositor parenting with other clips
    Max. 9 combined video and audio tracks available

Image compositing:

    6 compositors. Mix, zoom, move and rotate source video with keyframed animation tools
    19 blends. Stardand image blend modes like Add, Hardlight and Overlay are available
    40+ pattern wipes.

Image and audio filtering:

    50+ image filters: color correction, image effects, distorts, alpha manipulation, blur, edge detection, motion effects, freeze frame, etc.
    30+ audio filters: keyframed volume mixing, echo, reverb, distort, etc.

Supported editable media types:

    Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs
    JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF graphics file types
    SVG vector graphics
    Numbered frame sequences

Output encoding:

    Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs
    User can define rendering by setting FFMpeg args individually

Sunday, September 18, 2016

News about Blender second release candidate and other projects.

The Chairman Blender Foundation and producer Blender Institute, Mr. Ton Roosendaal come with this news about second release candidate and other projects:
Hi everyone,

Here are notes from today's 14 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net 
#blendercoders.

1) Blender 2.78 RC2

- Second release candidate is out! 
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.78/

- Release logs are also taking shape:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.78
https://www.blender.org/features/2-78/

Based on tracker reporting and further testing we either do a RC3 or 
the actual release this week. Sergey Sharybin and Bastien Montagne are
 monitoring it closely.

2) Other projects and 2.8

- Currently Blender for OSX links to an Apple system library for 
quicktime (qtkit).
This has been deprecated for long, and will be removed from 
XCode 10.12.
We have to decide if we want to drop this, and make Blender for 
OS X use ffmpg for 
all codecs.

- Julian Eisel uploaded custom manipulators patch for review 
https://developer.blender.org/D2232
Code docs
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=User:Julianeisel/Custom_Manipulators

- Mike Erwin is in Amsterdam, with Dalai Felinto and others 
he will do design sessions
on the 2.8 viewport. Expect interesting logs and docs!

Thanks,

-Ton-