Hello Ubuntu people,
It has been a while since my last post. To be honest i have realized that writing blog is not that easy job specially when only motivation is purely altruistic. So i believe you will understand. I missed you and your questions and i will try to change this practice and be more regular in writing posts.
Recently i have visited Kubutnu website and there i found section for some native KDE  games. I am not sure if they will work on GNOME - probably yes but with installing some additional KDE packages. I found eight of them very interesting and addictive so i will show you some of them.
KAtomic


This is a game very similar with Sokoban. I believe that my age computer users remember this game. :) The point is to put objects in the same position like on the picture. It is logic game which demands a lot a patient and mind skills.
KDiamond


KDiamond is a very popular game for even for Windows users. I will always remember it because i used to click for a million times while i was talking on the phone :) Very relaxing and not particularly demanding.
KBreakOut


KBreakOut is very popular game which i can recall even on Spectrum a used to use when i was just 4 years old. Very addictive game and if you are weak on this kind of games stay away of it :)
KMahjongg


This is another very popular game in which you have to find two matching tiles in order to solve this pile. It is very funny to play even in two players and i really suggest it. It is nicely done and looks quite nice. There are various types of piles so check it also. Enjoy in one of my favorite simple games.
KNetWalk


I played similar game before with some other theme but this one is really for geeks. :) The point is to join few monitors on the Internet :) You have several pipes which you need to rotate in order to have your screens working. Nice game.
KSquare


I played this game like a child on the piece of paper with my brother. Game is very interesting and tactical since the point is to avoid possibility to opponent to close one square. It is pretty easy to understand and it is for two players. I believe that you can play it with the computer but believe me playing it with girlfriend or boyfriend in striptease is much more interesting :)
KSudoku


I believe that a lot of you know about Sudoku. It is great brain trainer so when you want to relax play few games but try not to frustrate yourself. Just use your gray brain cells and you will see great advance.
Bovo


Bovo is another interesting game which i used to play like a kid. Is is great to play with another player but you can also play it with computer which is pretty intelligent :) The point is to have four tiles in the row, diagonal or vertical/horizontal, so you can win the game. You will really need to make some effort with your brain. :) I believe you will succeed.
I hope you will like my choice of simple games. If you have some other to recommend please do so.
Until my next post i hope you will be cool.
Enjoy,

Hello Ubuntu people,

It didn't take a lot and the first Alpha version of Ubuntu 10.10 has been released. For all of you who want to test and contribute this is a wonderful chance for you. You can get it if you click here

Enjoy and let us know about first impressions!

Hello good people worldwide,

Finally you will have a chance to read some tutorial for GIMP and that is only Veter is helping me. Thank you Veter for a great job. I know that you have spend at least few hours on this. We will start with something simple which we will need later so we must have tutorials about how to add brushes in GIMP. Also Veter will present you 13 brushes he likes best! Enjoy!


In Linux environment GIMP common files are in the folder /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.gimp-2.6. Because this is hidden folder you will have to press ALT+. There are folders for:

brush - brushes /
gradients - gradients /
pallets - palettes /
patterns - patterns /
scripts - scripts /

Brushes

GIMP brushes are in brushes folder. If you want to install new brushes, just download them and copy all .gbr files to folder /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.gimp-2.6/brushes



If you have GIMP running you will need to refresh brushes by pressing refresh button in the brushes window. If GIMP is turned off, just run it, and new brushes will be added automatically.



In addition the GIMP can read files Photoshop brushes with extension .abr. The installation is the same as in the case of .gbr files!

NOTE:
Having a large number of brushes can improve our workshop, but their large number could significantly delay the start GIMP (up to several minutes), so it's best to leave in its library only needed paint brushes, or those in the best qualities (GIMP brushes can scale so there is no need keeping the same brushes in different sizes).

The best brushes for GIMP

The Web is full of brushes for GIMP, although not all of them are good quality. They are small in size, or are ill-prepared transparency. I prepared a list of interesting brushes to GIMP. I will update it periodically with new brushes (Click image to go to the brush download page.)

PS.Not all of brushes in packs are good, so it is good to filter them after installation and leave only best ones.















I hope you like it. More tutorials for GIMP will come soon and in the mean time practice and experiment! It doesn't hurt :)

We will keep this page updated with more and more new and interesting brushes!

Cheers,

Dropbox thank you!

For many times i was reading about Dropbox and the whole bunch of similar services and i just didn't understand why it is so important!? I have younger brother. He is web designer. I also have flat mate he is expert for internet marketing and product retailing, writer, reader and more. Three of us quite often work together on some internal internet projects. Many times we exchange dozens of files between each others. Well i could say that we are stupid we never even read anything about Dropbox and similar services.


What is so fascinating? :)

For me the best thing about Dropbox is a fact that once upon installation is finished, it creates a folder, named Dropbox in your Home folder, and then magic starts. You just need to add file in this folder and it will be automatically uploaded to your Dropbox account. Dropbox advertise their services something like "go wherever you want your files will be close to you" which is quite correct but i think that in this story that will not be a point.



Imagine that you have five friends working on the same project - some website, scientific project, NGO project or some other activity which demands few people involvement. You need to coordinate million files all the time, million of email and chats. Well that is totally simplified with Dropbox. Now you can share one or more folders, which are inside you Dropbox folder, and then to add files directly into it. Almost at the same moment your friends will be notified that you have add something. They can look at it, change it, rename it or delete it. Good thing is also that you can start that file from Dropbox folder and upgrade it. After saving changes your friends will be notified that you have updated file!





Beside my small trio with my brother and flatmate, i am using Dropbox now to coordinate this blog with other people who want to help. It is great that at the very same moment you can work and sync with the people from USA, Panama and Poland. Just great and i can say that Dropbox really changed my efficiency and time management!

Thank you for reading,


My rate: * * * * *
Purpose: File sharing and syncing
Download: You can download from official website if you click here

Hello dear people,

I have found some new and fresh people to give significant support to this blog. I want to say thank you guys! The first one who contributed his tutorial is {VeTeR} from Poland. More about him you can read on his website www.veter.pl He is a designer and as such he uses a lot of different fonts. For all of you in similar situation here is a very good program with a name Opcion.

Graphic artist / designer by the time their work builds library of various objects - brushes, gradients, fonts, etc. After some time the number of these objects (eg fonts) is so large that it is hard to manipulate them in a graphics program.At this point useful become tools to manage fonts on your system.I found an interesting application -free written in Java font browser.The program works both on Windows and Linux (just installed the Java Virtual Machine).



Main Opcion window  allows you to define how the text should be shown in the presentation of fonts Set Sample Text.You can also define a list of favorite fonts.



You can also browse the fonts that are not installed on your system, which are placed somewhere in a directory on disk (for example, may be in the fonts directory GIMP, which windows / linux does not see).Simply guide Opcion to font's directory and it will automatically pick all fonts from there.


You can download this program from http://opcion.sourceforge.net/ and if you speak polish you can read it directly on {VeTeR} website http://veter.pl/?p=97

In order to run this program you need to download .jar version and then to change privileges. Navigate to download directory and type:


chmod -x Opcion_v1.1.1.jar


then type:


java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar


That should be it!

Thank you for reading. I hope you will like it.

Hello everybody,

Good news for all KDE fans! KDE 4.5 Beta 1 has been released. At this moment it is not in Kubuntu repositories so i didn't have a chance to test it. In this version accent will be on polishing and stability and according to KDE website some new features will be added - new Kwin features, remake of notification areas, some windows management and other things. Complete information you can find if you click here



Cheers,

Hello dear people,

I am apologizing for my inactivity once again but some personal problems are forcing me to turn to some other activities. Anyways, latest good news is that Ubuntu website has been finally rebuilt and now it has a new fresh look. Personally i like is better than the old one. It is just more beautiful and i hope more functional but i didn't test it yet.



See www.ubuntu.com

Hello dear people,

I am apologizing for being absent for a while. I had a lot of personal work to do.

Recently i have found a good news that Steam, big game provider for Windows and Mac is trying to find a way to support all popular games for Linux platforms as well. Maybe one of the biggest lacks of Linux platforms is that there is not possibility to install regular world wide popular games (OK some of them you can install with Wine but that is not solution).

Hello dear people,

Few weeks ago i have stumbled on one very interesting program for all of you creative people who like DJ-ing. I am showing you Mixxx. This is a program for mixing, like name says, which offers an incredible amount of useful tools. My brother likes this and he said it is quite useful for everybody. He is kind of DJ :) Actually he thinks that he is.

The great thing is that you can download .deb package from their website and in just a few clicks you will have it and use it. If you create something nice let me know :) I will publish it here.






I hope you are all doing good.

Enjoy,

My rate on the first sight: * * * *
Purpose: Audio mixing
Download: You can download it from official website if you click here

Hello people,

Few days ago i wrote about quite cool program named Minitube - Youtube client. Today new update is out and it brings some new very useful improvements. The whole list you can find if you click here.

Enjoy Minitube,

Hello people,

I know that a lot of newbies are coming on this website so i will represent you Ubuntu manual project a great manual about Ubuntu and how to use it. This is a completely voluntary project founded by Benjamin Humphrey. I believe you will find many answers in this book. You can download, it is completely free or you can support the whole project by buying one sample.

You can also help by being in the position of translator, programmer, editor, author, designer or tester.


I am sure you will like it!

All information you can find if you click here

Cheers,

Hello dear people,

Today i will represent you one of my favorite programs which helps my computer to remain cool even if i watch youtube :) I say this because like you know Linux generally has a lot of problems with Flash applications which make CPU boil all the time. That is why this program is great because it is pulling out only video from Youtube so your CPU can work normally just like when you watch any movie on your computer. Your computer will remain on normal temperature so you can watch youtube videos  in peace.




Minitube has standard commands so there are play, stop, pause and skip button. You have possibility to watch all videos in fullscreen mode and also in various qualities where HD is also supported.


This is very simple but yet very effective program which lets you with more comfort with youtube videos. I hope you will like it.

My rate: * * * *
Program purpose: Youtube client
Download: If you have added getdeb repository then you need to type:

sudo apt-get install minitube

If you do not have getdeb repository then add it and after that install minitube. More info about getdeb.net you can find if you click here.