Archive May, 2007

TrueCrypt Tutorial: Truly Portable Data Encryption

[ Wednesday, 23 May 2007, lipiec ]

TrueCrypt is free software that encrypts data “on-the-fly”. You can create an encrypted hard drive, a separate partition or a directory with TrueCrypt. It doesn’t encrypt simply the content of files but their names and the names of the directories as well. Moreover there is no way to check the size of the encrypted volume. TrueCrypt is available for Windows and Linux.

Poland: Nine people held by police for translating movies

[ Thursday, 17 May 2007, michuk ]

Nine people involved in a community portal Napisy.org have been held for questioning by Polish police forces. The possible accusation is publishing illegal translations of foreign movies. Napisy.org was the most popular Polish portal where users were free to submit translated subtitles for popular movies (mostly from English to Polish, but not only).

BygFoot — Free Football Manager

[ Thursday, 17 May 2007, axio ]

A warm welcome to all fans of football manager games. I’d like to present you BygFoot — an open-source alternative for the well-known Championship Manager.

MOC — Console Audio Player for Linux

[ Tuesday, 15 May 2007, Roman ]

MOC is a console-based (build on ncurses library) audio player for Linux/BSD. It’s very easy to use, fast and functional so basically it has all the features of a decent player except for a fancy GUI. What is more — it takes a fraction of system resources consumed by most popular GUI players but still plays all popular formats „out-of-the-box”.

GIMP tricks: Neon inscription

[ Sunday, 13 May 2007, michuk ]

In this tutorial we are going to show how to prepare a Neon inscription in GIMP. The article is meant for beginners, but you should know at least the basics of using GIMP in order to succeed.

Enchanting Pictures with ImageMagick

[ Wednesday, 9 May 2007, TLu ]

Hundreds of photos, most of them requiring post-processing before they can be published online. Tedious task often taking up hours, especially when you need to normalize the colors, brightness and contrast… Luckily there are some free magicians available. I’d like to proudly present ImageMagick – a set of command-line tools for easy and quick processing of bitmap images.

Dragonia Magazine: online magazine for Linux users

[ Tuesday, 8 May 2007, michuk ]

Dragonia community is proud to announce the completion of an English version of the 8th issue of Dragonia Magazine. In this issue you’ll find articles about Metisse, VoIP, learn how to make WWW using GUI, get acquainted with the E17 graphical environment and many more. Feel free to pick up the magazine in the Download section and leave feedback.

ASCII-Art fun: cowsay and FIGlet

[ Sunday, 6 May 2007, axio ]

Ever wanted to type in text terminal somehow funnier? This article describes two programs that can be used to generate a little less standard output in Linux console: cowsay and figlet. This article has been first published in Dragonia Magazine