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http://www.getmiro.com/

Miro is a free HD video player. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts.

Miro

Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about.

Best of all, Miro is 100% free and open source, developed by a non-profit organization and volunteers around the world.

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network,

Nmap

what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are avalable for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), and a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff).

http://nmap.org/

Most digital cameras nowadays, have resolutions that are far bigger than the normal monitor screen size. On average most point-and-shoot digital cameras have resolution anywhere from 3 megapixels to 10 megapixels. Most monitors these days have resolution of either 1024×768 or the slightly larger 1280×1024 pixels.

If you ever need to upload pictures online to a gallery or to a webpage, you will need to resize your images to fit the screen as well as reduce the image size. If you use Gimp, an image manipulation program, you can use David’s Batch Processor, a Gimp plugin to manage the resizing of multiple images in a single command.

To download the Batch Processor, open your Synaptic Package Manager located under System > Administration. Search for “Gimp Batch” and the result will give you “gimp-plugin-registry.” Install the package. You may need to supply the admin password to continue.

Or, in Ubuntu or Debian, through the terminal, type: “sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry”

There’s actually a nice Nautilus extension (that uses Imagemagick) in Ubuntu repositories that allows you to just select all images you want to resize, right-click, select ‘Resize Images’ and choose the size you want from a GUI menu. To get it run the following command and log out &back again (or ‘killall nautilus’):

Code:
sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter

Before you’re able to use this functionality you’ll need to restart nautilus or simply logout and back in.  You’ll now be able to right-click on any image on your machine and you’ll see two new menu items:

"resize images"

"rotate images"

The options menu that will be presented will give you quite a number of options on rotation direction, resizing, etc.  Give it a quick try, its about as easy as it can get.

Imagemagick is possibly the best & most powerful tool for handling large amounts of images.

http://www.imagemagick.org/

Imagemagick

I use it quite often when I need to compress hundreds of images and make thumbnails for them. Type the command needed, push enter and go make yourself a nice cup of coffee while your computer is doing the work for you.

For example the following command would resize all .jpg images in a directory to 640×480, with quality setting 86 (you can choose between 0 and 100) and strip EXIF data from them to make files even smaller:

Code:
find . -iname "*.jpg" -exec convert -resize 640x480 -quality 86 -strip {};

Other line commands:

animate

animate an image sequence on any X server.

mathematically and visually annotate the difference between an image and its reconstruction.

overlap one image over another.

interpret and execute scripts written in the Magick Scripting Language (MSL).

convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.

display an image or image sequence on any X server.

describe the format and characteristics of one or more image files.

save any visible window on an X server and outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen, or any rectangular portion of the screen.

resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more. Mogrify overwrites the original image file, whereas, convert writes to a different image file.

create a composite image by combining several separate images. The images are tiled on the composite image optionally adorned with a border, frame, image name, and more.

a lightweight tool to stream one or more pixel components of the image or portion of the image to your choice of storage formats. It writes the pixel components as they are read from the input image a row at a time making stream desirable when working with large images or when you require raw pixel components.

Based on the original Frets on Fire concept, Frets on Fire “X” is the continuation of the guitar-playing game that is played with either a keyboard or guitar. Frets on Fire X is a real blast to experience, while requiring substantial skill to make any headway through the presented challenges.

Frets on fire X

Songs can be found throughout various resources on the Web with everything ready to be added fairly easily. Not a game for the easily frustrated, this is an open source entertainment experience and a great way to “get into” some of your favorite music.

How many of you remember Gumby? For those unfamiliar with the TV classic, it was a television program created with stop motion video creation techniques.

Stopmotion

Back then, stop motion was done by taking individual pictures and adding them together to create a moving picture or a show. Today, we have software designed for platforms such as Linux that make this process much easier.

This application is aptly called, StopMotion. Available from the software repositories of most popular Linux distributions these days, it’s fairly simple to use. It does require a basic understanding of how stop motion photography works, however.

Assuming you can get past the fact that this is designed for the GNOME desktop, GNOME Do takes the idea of using keyboard shortcuts and bumps it up to a whole new level.

gnome do

Imagine keyboard shortcuts to just about everything you use on your Linux desktop. Surf the Web, access specific applications, alter system functionality — the list goes on and on.

Using this keyboard navigation software will change the way you look at your keyboard completely. Best of all, it’s very simple to use and requires no memory or special key commands. Just run GNOME Do in the background and type in the first few letters of the program or task you’re looking for.

Mtr combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each machine. For a preview take a look at the screenshots.