gphotoframe Free digital photo frame for your desk.

First install the gphotoframe application with the command :

sudo yum install gphotoframe

and if you want gnome-screensaver compatibility then install the package gphotoframe-gss also.

Gnome Photo Frame is a photo frame gadget for the <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME Desktop. Let&#8217;s see how this works.. run the command gphotoframe from a terminal:

Here is what you will see :

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1880" title="Screenshot-gphotoframe" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe-300x227.png" alt="Screenshot-gphotoframe" width="300" height="227" />

Don&#8217;t panic on seeing the blank/black page. You need to add the source first. So <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">right click on the window and go to preferences:

\[Solution\] Solaris issue with wget not resolving Domain name (DNS name lookup failure)

Today I was working with <a class="zem_slink" title="Solaris (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://oracle.com/solaris">Solaris and after I had set up the <a class="zem_slink" title="NIS+" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIS%2B">NIS+, <a class="zem_slink" title="Name server" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_server">DNS server, IP Address and completing the basic setting. I was using the pkg-get util from the freesunware.com

The utility was using wget and it was failing constantly. From the looks of it, it was very clear that the wget utility was unable to find the <a class="zem_slink" title="IP address" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address">IP address from the name. <a class="zem_slink" title="Name resolution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_resolution">Name resolution was not happening, while dig and <a class="zem_slink" title="Nslookup" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nslookup">nslookup was able to do the DNS lookup.

Nature

Best Mobile Internet Browser (Opera Mini vs. SkyFire)

Showdown: Best Mobile <a class="zem_slink" title="Internet" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet">Internet Browser (<a class="zem_slink" title="Opera Software" rel="homepage" href="http://www.opera.com">Opera Mini vs. <a class="zem_slink" title="Skyfire" rel="homepage" href="http://www.skyfire.com">SkyFire) mobile internet browsersDo you browse the web on your mobile device? As <a class="zem_slink" title="Mobile phone" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone">cell phones get faster connection speeds, processors, bigger screens and better applications, it’s getting easier and easier to go online with them. Add in the fact that most websites have a mobile version now and it makes this an even simpler process.

when you press f9 'paste' is on , press f9 again and 'paste' is off, and so forth (works in insert-mode and command-mode)

<a class="zem_slink" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">vim&#8217;s pastetoggle: when you press f9 &#8217;paste&#8217; is on , press f9 again and &#8217;paste&#8217; is off, and so forth (works in <a class="zem_slink" title="Insert key" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_key">insert-mode and command-mode) $ nmap :set paste!:set paste? Sets as paste toggle, with visual confirmation of state

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Using mtpaint of Fedora to modify your images and make them look different.

Here is the description of mtpaint :

mtPaint is a simple painting program designed for creating icons
and pixel-based artwork. It can edit indexed palette or 24 bit <a class="zem_slink" title="RGB color model" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model">RGB
images and offers basic painting and palette manipulation tools.
Its main <a class="zem_slink" title="File format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format">file format is <a class="zem_slink" title="Portable Network Graphics" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics">PNG, although it can also handle <a class="zem_slink" title="JPEG" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG">JPEG, <a class="zem_slink" title="Graphics Interchange Format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format">GIF,
TIFF, <a class="zem_slink" title="BMP file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format">BMP, <a class="zem_slink" title="X PixMap" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap">XPM, and <a class="zem_slink" title="X BitMap" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_BitMap">XBM files.

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Shape Collage – Simple software to create collage with a java application.

Download from <a href="http://www.shapecollage.com/download.html">here.

Very useful utility to create collage in variety of ways. Here are some screenshots to give you a idea of how this works.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/screenshot_0011.bmp"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/screenshot_0011.bmp" alt="Shape Collage Settings" title="Shape Collage Settings" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1292" />

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/screenshot_002.bmp"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/screenshot_002.bmp" alt="Shape Collage Settings" title="Shape Collage Settings" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1293" />

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/screenshot_003.bmp"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/screenshot_003.bmp" alt="Shape Collage Settings" title="Shape Collage Settings" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1294" />

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/screenshot_004.bmp"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/screenshot_004.bmp" alt="Shape Collage Settings" title="Shape Collage Settings" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1295" />