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Ubuntu without “win key”

Posted on November 28 2007 by Andre Noel

This post is an adaptation of one post I made on my portuguese blog. It may contain some write errors (especially on manicurist part).
One day I was talking with my friend (and GSoC Guy) Lucas Veloso, and I solved a problem that bother many Linux users: the use of “win key”.

May we call “ubu key”? [...]

I bought an ogg player

Posted on November 18 2007 by Andre Noel

I’ve just bought an ogg player (the box says MP3 Player, but I will use it to play ogg…). As many others, it doesn’t say that it plays ogg, but it do (look the picture above).
Funny part: Look the page of manual (translated below)…

Red part: Important: For unknown reasons some Windows XP doesn’t open automatically [...]

Liquid Rescale Plug-in: step-by-step

Posted on October 1 2007 by Andre Noel

On my last post I wrote about the “Liquid Rescale Plug-in” for Gimp and published an image that I resized. Now I’ll show how to make it step-by-step.
First I choose a picture. The original size was 2048×1536 pixels.

Then I choose Layer > Liquid Rescale…

I changed the width to 1500 and “OK”:

Well, this is no good. [...]

Cool resize plugin for GIMP

Posted on September 28 2007 by Andre Noel

Some time ago I saw this post about a super horizontal/vertical resize algorithm which preserves the proportions of what is important on an image. Yesterday I was reading unread posts on Planet Ubuntu when I saw this post of Jorge Bernal where he says that already exists a plugin for GIMP of this algorithm (this [...]

NO with comments!

Posted on August 23 2007 by Andre Noel

Brasil says no to the OOXML format.
Congratulations to ABNT for this decision! We can’t accept a standard that doesn’t follow standards or a standard that only one company can implement…

Meet the “open surface”

Posted on July 17 2007 by Andre Noel

Today i saw on meio-bit a post with a video about the MPX, a version of X server which supports multi-touch.

The project is still in the beginning, but it has two greats advantages over MS Surface: it’s free and it’s available now!
And the most beautiful: here comes the Ubuntu:

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