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Artha - English thesaurus on WordNet

2012-05-13T14:05:00.001+05:30

Artha is a free cross-platform English thesaurus that works completely off-line and is based on WordNet. Stable releases for download are currently available for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows. Artha is released under the GNU General Public Licence version 2; hence you are free to copy/redistribute it.

Artha - English thesaurus on WordNet

WordNet is a free open lexical database for English, by Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller. It is what its name says. Each word will have one or more definitions (or senses, technically). Apart from these definitions, a word is interlinked to other words by a relation like Synonyms, Hypernyms, etc. Generally, We tend to forget a word by learning a word's definitions alone.

LibreOffice - Enhance desktop productivity

2012-05-13T13:22:00.001+05:30

LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download and install for free. Works on all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, etc.

LibreOffice - Enhance desktop productivity

Writer is the word processor inside LibreOffice. Use it for everything, from dashing off a quick letter to producing an entire book with tables of contents, embedded illustrations, bibliographies and diagrams.

Calc tames your numbers and helps with difficult decisions when you're weighing the alternatives. Analyze your data with Calc and then use it to present your final output. Charts and analysis tools help bring transparency to your conclusions.

Impress is the fastest and easiest way to create effective multimedia presentations. Stunning animation and sensational special effects help you convince your audience.

Draw lets you build diagrams and sketches from scratch. A picture is worth a thousand words, so why not try something simple with box and line diagrams?

Base is the database front-end of the LibreOffice suite. With Base, you can seamlessly integrate your existing database structures into the other components of LibreOffice, or create an interface to use and administer your data as a stand-alone application.

Math is a simple equation editor that lets you lay-out and display your mathematical, chemical, electrical or scientific equations quickly in standard written notation. Even the most-complex calculations can be understandable when displayed correctly. E=mc2.

Gnumeric - Spartan Spreadsheet Software

2012-05-12T21:15:00.001+05:30

Gnumeric is a spreadsheet, a computer program used to manipulate and analyze numeric data. Gnumeric can help you keep track of information in lists, organize numeric values in columns and rows, perform and update complex calculations by defining each step of the calculation and modifying particular steps subsequently, create and display or print graphical plots of data using bar plots, line graphs, pie charts or radar charts, implement complex optimization modeling or perform many other tasks involving numbers, dates, times, names or other data.

Gnumeric - Spartan Spreadsheet Software

"A spreadsheet file contains a workbook and possibly some other information about the file. (Because the workbook is far more important than the extra information, the files themselves are often called workbooks.) A workbook contains one or more worksheets. Each worksheet contains a large number of cells usually arranged into a two dimensional grid made up of columns and rows."

VideoLAN or VLC - Free multimedia solutions

2012-05-12T15:22:00.001+05:30

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

VideoLAN or VLC - Free multimedia solutions

Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...

More Features

Simple, fast and powerful media player.
Plays Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix
Can do Media Convertion and Streaming.

Lubuntu - Operating System of Flash

2012-05-12T11:44:00.000+05:30

Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system developed by a community of Free and Open Source enthusiasts. The core of the system is based on Linux and Ubuntu . Lubuntu uses the minimal desktop LXDE, and a selection of light applications.

Lubuntu - Flash Operating System

The focus is on speed and energy-efficiency. Because of this, Lubuntu has very low hardware requirements.

Who is this Flash ?

The Flash is a name shared by several fictional comic book superheroes from the DC Comics universe. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in Flash Comics (January 1940).

Nicknamed the Scarlet Speedster, all incarnations of the Flash possess "super-speed", which includes the ability to run and move extremely fast, use superhuman reflexes and seemingly violate certain laws of physics.

Notepad++ Green Editor Coders Delight

2012-04-27T08:33:00.001+05:30

Notepad++ is a free source code editor, programmers editor, webmasters editor and much much more.

Notepad++ Green Editor Coders Delight

Supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Notepad++ Project on SourceForge: The project is hosted in SourceForge currently.

After a long time another perfect creation! The resonance has sent sparks across the clouds. There shall be Rain !

Web Developer Tools of the Advanced Kind

2012-04-26T19:11:00.001+05:30

Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.

Aptana Studio - Build web applications quickly and easily using the industry's leading web application IDE.

NetBeans IDE - Editor Support for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. The NetBeans JavaScript and CSS editors are the perfect choice for Ajax development.

Eclipse - Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building.

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment (IDE) and an extensible plug-in system.

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

Open Clipart Library - Enchanting Graphics

2012-04-26T06:22:00.000+05:30

This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use. Public Domain Graphics as is the Creative Commons.

Open Clipart Library - Enchanting Graphics

What's the deal with all these different graphic formats? BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, SVG, WMF...?

JPEG, on the other hand, uses a different approach for achieving compression. The method it uses drops some of the data, so it is called "lossy". It does this using some known tricks to how the human eye works. This works well for photographic images, less so for artwork, and extremely poorly for line art. The problem with JPEG, as it relates to clip art, is that JPEGs show artifacts (strange blocks and shadows) when you zoom in on them. You also can't edit them often. When you save the JPEG again, the computer saves the original artifacts and creates more, so the quality goes down. The higher the compression ratio you use, the faster it'll get bad.

PNG (pronounced "ping") is usually the best raster format for saving clip art, but it too has a few tradeoffs. It is a lossless format so it doesn't have the problems that JPEG has, and it uses more colors and better compression than GIF. However, the file size still gets unreasonable for large images, and it is not supported by some applications. This is much less of an issue today than it was a few years ago, but since most Microsoft programs don't display PNGs correctly, many users are still affected.

Scalable Vector Graphics SVG

SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML. SVG 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation and forms the core of the current SVG developments. SVG 1.2 is the specification currently being developed as is available in draft form (comments welcome). The SVG Mobile Profiles: SVG Basic and SVG Tiny are targeted to resource-limited devices and are part of the 3GPP platform for third generation mobile phones. SVG Print is a set of guidelines to produce final-form documents in XML suitible for archiving and printing. Read more about SVG.

PortableApps - Thumb Drive Computer

2012-04-25T16:06:00.001+05:30

Complete collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably.

PortableApps - Thumb Drive Computer

Integrated PortableApps.com Menu (pictured at right) and the PortableApps.com Backup utility along with a set of custom icons,

Some Apps Available are ....

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition (web browser)
Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition (email)
Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition (calendar/tasks)
Sumatra PDF Portable (PDF reader
OpenOffice.org Portable (office suite)
AbiWord Portable (word processor) .

GnuCash SOHO Accounting Tool

2012-04-24T17:01:00.001+05:30

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU

GnuCash SOHO Accounting Tool

Double-Entry Accounting
Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts
Reports, Graphs
Scheduled Transactions
Financial Calculations

The GnuCash checkbook-style register provides a custom, convenient and familiar interface to entering financial transactions.

The register supports common checking and credit-card transactions, as well as income, stock and currency transactions. The following features are also provided:

Autofill of entered transactions
Possibility to mark a transaction as cleared
Possibility to enter split transactions
Multiple accounts can be displayed in one register window at the same time
A summary bar that display all the relevant account's balance information
Many options to customize the appearance and the display style

My Google Plus Profile Awaiting Review

2012-03-07T10:36:00.000+05:30

My G+ is online again. I shall now restrain myself as humanly possible, but then i am only half human.

Dear Google+

My Anwheel Methods at G+ has been suspended and has been submitted for review to Google+.

I have now changed to my real name and not website name. It might put my profile back online. Till that you can interface on my other profiles here - Anantha Narayan

Even my blogger blogs got suspended as i had linked the Google+ Profile in blogger, but now the blogs are Online after blogger resolved the isuse and profile link was removed. The Picasa Photo Album is off, the other services seem ok.

Moral of the Story - "Use your real name and not nickname in G+, not like in other networks." For other names use a G+ Page.

Open Letter

Dear Google+

Please Restore my public profile Anwheel Methods at G+ i have made the changes in name. In case more changes are required let me know, i will do it.

Regards
Ananth

SAN-Gear Adroit Systems Computing Device, Data and Delivery.

Web Deuce - All Things Internet

Anwheel Methods Mechanical, Robotics, Mechatronics Manufacturing.

Anwheel Dimensions - The Big and The Small

Use ThingamaBlog with PortableApps

2012-01-09T10:44:00.000+05:30

If you want to use ThingamaBlog with PortableApps it is a bit difficult. Here i will show a simple way.

Make a folder 'Tamb' in your Portable Drive HDD. Let use say it is G:, you can always set it to G: before you start.

How To Change Drive Letter - Be Careful Here

My Computer Right Click - Manage or Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Storage - Disk Management.

Drives and Partitions - right-click the USB drive you have installed, then select "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." Change..." select your drive letter G: OK. warning message "Yes" Close this dialog.

(If you change your C: or D: your computer may Fail and may become difficult to Repair. Never Ever change C: - This is the place of the Operating System.)

Unplug USB drive, and put back it will have G: a drive letter as you set.

Batch Executable for Tamb

Make a Batch File - Empty Text File - Called 'tamb.bat' or 'run.bat' plain text use TextPad, NoteTab or NotePad++. This file must be in the new tamb folder you created. Make a shortcut for this and paste the shortcut on desktop. Change icon to something nice and set shortcut properties to Run Minimized.

Add this Line

G:\Portable\main\PortableApps\CommonFiles\Java\bin\java.exe -jar thingamablog.jar

Where G: is the Drive Letter of the Portable Apps and Full Path as per your Installation. Use xplorer to do the file management and view paths. The path to Java.exe must be correct and you must have "Portable Java" from Portable Apps installed already.

Now just use the Icon Tamb on desktop to start blogging. (do not close the minimized dos/shell java window). Save your blog profile in some folder on the Portable Drive G:.

Get a real HardDisk like a External Portable Seagate or iOmega to get speed. In case you need it faster, Install Gizmodrive in the Computer where you are working for some time, example .. while you are on a Tour. With Gizmo create an Encrypted Virtual Drive with G: letter. In this G: copy your portable apps files and it will run faster. Remember password do not set auto-mount. When you are moving again from that place, say after your tour ends, make a backup from the Gizmodrive to your external drive; Delete Virtual drive and uninstall gizmo. Keep data safe in your External drive or ColudDrive like Drop Box. Never leave any app logged in.

Your Data and Settings is your very own Soul and Intellectual Property IP....never let it get in others hands.

I now have a Cloud Journal - In the Cloud, For the Cloud, From the Cloud - I would like to call it a Thing-a-ma DropBlog. It is made of ThingamaBlog and DropBox.

Klipfolio Dashboard - Data and Metrics Visualization

2012-01-08T14:25:00.001+05:30

Easily assemble, monitor, and share key performance indicators for your business metrics on any device.

Klipfolio Dashboard - Data & Metrics Visualization

They have two main products -

Desktop KPI Dashboard
Web and Mobile KPI Dashboard

One is a software you install on the desktop PC and the other a Web Application in the cloud.

Interface to the data souce.

From uploading xls, csv and xml files to Automatic methods like the REST protocol and OAuth or even the data source API. You can even Instantly and securely connect to your Google Docs spreadsheets in real-time.

Create the Visual KPI Blocks

Klips are Widgets that make a Dashbord. Use the standard ones or create a custom klip in an intuitive and powerful WYSIWYG workspace. Gauges, line charts, bar charts, sparklines, tables and more for visualizing your data. "Set up tabs to keep related KPIs together and arrange them as you see fit. Build custom dashboards for everyone in your organization, so that they only see the KPIs they need."

Share and Access the dashboard, from desktop, tablet or mobile. create data terminals too.

KPI - Key Performance Indicators

SAN Gear Notes -

Another old post removed and a new post made. Yet another innovation.....Track personalized RSS, weather, news, blogs, and more with the world's smallest personal dashboard.

Squiz Suite - Web Experience Management

2012-01-08T08:14:00.000+05:30

Squiz Suite, anOpen Source Web experience management suite. It incorporates the Squiz CMS and Matrix.

Squiz Suite - Web Experience Management

Full Set

Squiz CMS - content management system.
Squiz Matrix - a robust platform for integrating applications and data.
Squiz Search - offering highly effective onsite search.
Squiz Analytics - innovative analytics capabilities.

Expanded Capabilities for Enterprise and the Business Integration Engine

Web 2.0 and Social Media integration
SEO optimisation
Mobile website creation
Onsite Search - Enterprise Search
Email campaign management
Multi-lingual support
Back end system integration
Ecommerce

From - Squiz a Supported Open Source solutions company, founded in Sydney, Australia in 1998.

SAN Gear Notes -

I was checking all the old posts, Then i found MySource Matrix a LAMP app is now Squiz Matrix. Quite a mutation, so deleted old post and made a new one.

Dact Apps - useful Online Tools or WebApps

2012-01-07T11:37:00.000+05:30

Dact Apps - is a collection of useful Online Tools or WebApps. These are also Examples of Computing moving Remote

For the Software Developer or Programmer

For Web Design and Scripts

Character Picker, Color Scheme Designer, jsFiddle, MudCube CSS Background, Rendera Online HTML5 Editor, Unicode Table, UTF Convertor, YAML Builder

Many Online Office apps

Documents, SpreadSheet, Presentations, Diagrams, WhiteBoard, Gliffy Flowcharts, Web Meeting

Painting Tools for Artist

ArtPad, Myna Audio Editor, Roc Music Creator, Raven Vector Editor, SketchPad, Slimber Painter, Sumo Paint, Wimpy Beat Box.

HTML5 and Canvas are Shocking

2012-01-07T08:17:00.000+05:30

See something that these new technologies can do. May need a newer computer, netbook or tablet bought after 2005.

See an Example here at - HyperAndroid

Here are some examples developed mainly in my spare time using HTML, HTML5, CSS3 3D and Javascript.

The online CSS spriter

Save bandwidth by packing your textures into a single one. Then get a CSS style file to handle them.

Gentoo - Automatically Optimized OS

2010-12-10T21:01:00.000+05:30

Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

Gentoo - Automatically Optimized OS

Enhanced by Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or any custom configuration you Envision.

openSUSE Linux-based operating system

2010-12-04T20:11:00.000+05:30

The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides anyone with free and easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, SUSE Linux.

openSUSE Linux-based operating system

The openSUSE 11.3 includes new versions of GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, and many, many more updates and improvements. In 11.3 you'll find more than 1,000 open source desktop applications.

Full desktop operating system: openSUSE has everything you need to do your work and play. Browse the web, send email, be online in social, write documents, and much more; all (for) free.

Full office suite included: Use OpenOffice.org to create professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more. With OpenOffice you can work on office documents created with other office suites.

Enjoy your Internet experience, worry-free: Forget worrying about viruses and spyware. openSUSE has none, period. And the included Firefox web browser alerts you to known phishing websites, helping protect you from scams and identity thieves.

openSUSE: Linux for Open Minds at G+

Debian GNU/Linux - The Operating System

2010-12-04T10:07:00.000+05:30

Debian was begun in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, as a new distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU. Debian is pronounced /ˈde.bi.ən/. It comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra.

Debian GNU/Linux - The Operating System

What is Debian? -- Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.

Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide.

Debian will run on almost all personal computers, including most older models. Each new release of Debian generally supports a larger number of computer architectures. For a complete list of currently supported ones, see the documentation for the stable release.

Slackware Linux Project

2010-12-04T07:28:00.000+05:30

This site is dedicated to providing the latest news about the Slackware Linux distribution, as well as installation help, configuration help, and other general information about Slackware Linux.

The Slackware Linux Project

What is Slackware Linux?

The Official Release of Slackware Linux by Patrick Volkerding is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, Slackware brings the best of all worlds to the table.

Originally developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991, the UNIX®-like Linux operating system now benefits from the contributions of millions of users and developers around the world. Slackware Linux provides new and experienced users alike with a fully-featured system, equipped to serve in any capacity from desktop workstation to machine-room server. Web, ftp, and email servers are ready to go out of the box, as are a wide selection of popular desktop environments. A full range of development tools, editors, and current libraries is included for users who wish to develop or compile additional software.

Mandriva OS - Linux Operating System

2010-12-03T08:04:00.000+05:30

Mandriva Linux, a full free operating system for individuals and enterprises. For client computers, servers, mobiles and embedded devices.

Mandriva OS - Linux Operating System

"All the applications you need on a single CD :: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird to browse the Web and manage your e-mail - with Java and Flash support.

Mandriva Linux 2010.1

Mandriva Linux - Wiki

Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrakelinux or Mandrake Linux) is a French Linux distribution distributed by Mandriva (formerly Mandrakesoft). It uses the RPM Package Manager.

Red Hat - Open Source Enterprise Linux

2010-12-02T19:35:00.001+05:30

In 1994 Marc Ewing created his own distribution of Linux which he names Red Hat Linux. Released in October, it becomes known as the Halloween release...... Linux History

Solutions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and a broad range of management and services.

Red Hat - Open Source Enterprise Linux

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, a collection of software that makes your computer run. You can use Fedora in addition to, or instead of, other operating systems .....

Fedora is a fast, stable, and powerful operating system for everyday use.

Ubuntu: Linux for human beings

2010-10-07T16:24:00.000+05:30

Secure, intuitive operating system that powers desktops, servers, netbooks and laptops.

Ubuntu: Linux for human beings - Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both 2006 Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu and Canonical are registered trademarks.

The full PC desktop for multi-core Android phones

Now multi-core Android phones can be PCs too. Ubuntu for Android enables high-end Android handsets to run Ubuntu, the world's favourite free PC desktop operating system. So users get the Android they know on the move, but when they connect their phone to a monitor, mouse and keyboard, it becomes a PC.

My old Notes -

Ubuntu and grub - changing default boot

b2evolution - Multi blog Blogging Software

2010-10-06T17:58:00.000+05:30

Medium scale CMS centered around the Blog concept, fully featured with multiple blogs, content/presentation separation, full user management, full internationalization (i18n), workflow management... and extending towards features normally provided by Wikis, Trackers or hierarchy driven CMSes.

b2evolution - Multi blog Blogging Software

It's free as free can be! (GNU General Public License). It runs on your own domain/website. That means you need a host which can run web applications written in PHP.

All the features you can expect are included:

Advanced browsing (paged, calendar, categories, search...)
Extended & multipaged posts
Image/file upload & management
Multiple and sub-categorie
Draft and quick publishing
RSS & Atom feeds
Automatic pinging of blog directories
(more below...)

(b2 a pioneer lamp blog app lead to Wordpress and b2evo - Ananth)

Handhelds - Open Source OS Handheld Devices

2010-10-05T18:56:00.000+05:30

At the hardware level, we embrace any device that can reasonably be considered a handheld computer. We are product and architecture neutral. Software development on an open-ended set of handheld computers is welcome within the context of our group and our website. These projects include both individual efforts and work sponsored and organized by individuals, groups or companies. The only requirement is that the results be made available in open source form, as discussed below.

Hardware

At the operating system level, our focus is on "Unix-like" systems, including Linux and the various flavors of BSD Unix (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.). Among these alternative operating systems, healthy and energetic competition results in better software for everyone.

Software Archiving and Distribution

Our website provides a set of software repositories, allowing easy archiving and distribution of free software. These repositories are reliable, available, and enjoy very high bandwidth connectivity to the Internet backbone. Project teams are welcome to store their software in the repositories provided here, although links to remote repositories are also welcome.

HandHelds.org

My Notes -

I feel HandHeld Computers range from Advanced Calculators to Laptops, The have to be driven by batteries, charged by Mains, Solar, Wind Power or Dynamos. They can be carried around by a single human being or may be part of a Vehicle he uses. It can have a Wireless Web Connectivity or may just be a passive multimedia or games player.

Anantha Narayan 2009