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> <channel><title>The Telarah Times &#187; Open Source Apps</title> <atom:link href="http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/category/open-source-apps/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au</link> <description>The Practical Application of Linux and Opensource Technology, and Other Stuff</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:52:48 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>Dia – Joining Lines where they Cross over Each Other</title><link>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/dia-joining-lines-where-they-cross-over-each-other</link> <comments>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/dia-joining-lines-where-they-cross-over-each-other#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:50:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[IT Tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Apps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dia]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?p=2936</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dia is a great Open Source diagramming program that has extensive `shape&#8217; libraries for a lot of different applications (I use it for drawing network diagrams and flow-charts). When using Dia one of the questions that arises fairly regularly is: Is it possible to create a node at line crossing points? or at arbitrary position [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/dia-joining-lines-where-they-cross-over-each-other/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>avidemux compile or I just wanted to rotate some video&#8230;</title><link>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/avidemux</link> <comments>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/avidemux#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:08:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[IT Tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Apps]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?p=2263</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ubuntu 9.10&#8230; avidemux is crashing everytime I try to run the rotate filter with a partial frame range. So I&#8217;m trying to compile it from source to see if I can get it running. What they don&#8217;t tell you in the online install instructions is you have to compile both the application&#8230; apt-get build-dep avidemux [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/avidemux/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sweet Home 3D</title><link>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/sweet-home-3d</link> <comments>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/sweet-home-3d#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:43:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Apps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renovations]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?p=2243</guid> <description><![CDATA[Check out the 3D drawing I did from a cool Java application Sweet Home 3D This is approximately an hours work after following the tutorial and using an imported 2D floorplan. This isn&#8217;t using the best quality rendering setting and I found my old P4 was struggling a little but still the result is OK. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/sweet-home-3d/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Create a WordPress Page Tab that leads to a non WordPress URL</title><link>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/wordpress/create-a-wordpress-page-that-leads-to-a-non-wordpress-url</link> <comments>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/wordpress/create-a-wordpress-page-that-leads-to-a-non-wordpress-url#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:38:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[navigation]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?p=2182</guid> <description><![CDATA[I have my WordPress setup to display all the blog posts on the front page and the WordPress &#8220;Pages&#8221; as tabs on the navigation at the top of the page. However I also would like the navigation to point to other non WordPress areas of my domain and go straight there. For example my Gallery2 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/wordpress/create-a-wordpress-page-that-leads-to-a-non-wordpress-url/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>KDE4</title><link>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/kde4</link> <comments>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/kde4#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 10:42:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Apps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KDE]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?p=1650</guid> <description><![CDATA[So I have haunted the linux-users mailing list for about um (1999-2009) 10 years. And the discussion turned to KDE4 and well frankly there wasn&#8217;t many people saying it &#8216;completes me&#8217;. Quite the opposite. So seeing I&#8217;m running Ubuntu 9.04 I though I would install it&#8230;. and well to coin a phrase: &#8220;KDE4 is to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/kde4/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>svn working copy inside ecryptfs file name gotcha</title><link>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/svn-working-copy-inside-ecryptfs-file-name-gotcha</link> <comments>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/svn-working-copy-inside-ecryptfs-file-name-gotcha#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:51:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Apps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[subversion]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?p=1635</guid> <description><![CDATA[So encrypting your stuff is wise from a security standpoint. Yes? Here is a little problem I ran into when I copied my svn working copy into an ecryptfs directory. The actual copy operation gave an error message about &#8220;file name too long&#8221; which I ignored. But then I tried to do an svn update [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/svn-working-copy-inside-ecryptfs-file-name-gotcha/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ubuntu &#8211; PuTTY GTK2 Package</title><link>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/ubuntu-putty-gtk2-package</link> <comments>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/ubuntu-putty-gtk2-package#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 13:34:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Open Source Apps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PuTTY]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?p=1622</guid> <description><![CDATA[I wrote some stuff on compiling PuTTY with GTK2. Here is a deb for Ubuntu (I compiled it on 8.04 and have tried it on 9.04) putty_20090326-1_i386 md5sum: 2f0926105d949dcb7fc7ce0c818b2088 I think I did it with checkinstall and if it&#8217;s broken you get to keep both peices however if it&#8217;s useful then knock yourself out. The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/it-tips/open-source-apps/ubuntu-putty-gtk2-package/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
