Spirit of Change » Application http://vavai.net Masim "Vavai" Sugianto Personal Blog Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:26:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Openshot Video Editor on openSUSE http://vavai.net/2010/01/26/openshot-video-editor-on-opensuse/ http://vavai.net/2010/01/26/openshot-video-editor-on-opensuse/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:03:25 +0000 Masim "Vavai" Sugianto http://vavai.net/?p=1137 Openshot screenshot

Figure 1 : Openshot Application on openSUSE 11.2. Click for higher resolution

OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source, non-linear video editor for Linux, built with Python, GTK, and the MLT Framework. The project was started in August 2008 by Jonathan Thomas, with the objective to provide a stable, free, and friendly to use video editor.The function much similar with Kdenlive and Kino, both are a video editor for Linux.

Features :

* Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)
* Gnome integration (drag and drop support)
* Multiple tracks
* Clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting
* Video transitions with real-time previews
* Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
* Title templates, title creation
* SVG friendly, to create and include titles and credits
* Scrolling motion picture credits
* Solid color clips (including alpha compositing)
* Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences
* Drag and drop timeline
* Frame stepping, key-mappings: J,K, and L keys
* Video encoding (based on FFmpeg)
* Key Frame animation
* Digital zooming of video clips
* Speed changes on clips (slow motion etc)
* Custom transition lumas and masks
* Re-sizing of clips (frame size)
* Audio mixing and editing
* Presets for key frame animations and layout
* Ken Burns effect (making video by panning over an image)
* Digital video effects, including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key (bluescreen / greenscreen), and over 20 other video effects

OpenShot Video Editor originally written for Ubuntu. Official website provided the deb installer for Ubuntu and RPM for Fedora. openSUSE rpm currently not available on OpenShot website but openSUSE user may install it with package from Packman repositories.

Install Openshot

Install with zypper on openSUSE 11.2 :

zypper ar http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/11.2 packman-bremen
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ oss
zypper ref && zypper in openshot

Note that you should have the oss repos available because openshot has dependency library available on oss repo.

Note for Indonesian openSUSE user:
Please use local repo for better speed on refreshing and installing the package

zypper mr -da
zypper ar http://kambing.ui.ac.id/opensuse/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ oss-kambing
zypper ar http://kambing.ui.ac.id/opensuse/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/ non-oss-kambing
zypper ar http://kambing.ui.ac.id/opensuse-packman/suse/11.2/ packman-kambing
zypper ref && zypper in openshot

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]]> http://vavai.net/2010/01/26/openshot-video-editor-on-opensuse/feed/ 1 7 Lightweight Linux Browsers You may want to Consider for Fast Browsing Experience http://vavai.net/2010/01/18/7-lightweight-linux-browsers-you-may-want-to-consider-for-fast-browsing-experience/ http://vavai.net/2010/01/18/7-lightweight-linux-browsers-you-may-want-to-consider-for-fast-browsing-experience/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:52:27 +0000 Masim "Vavai" Sugianto http://vavai.net/?p=1071 Mozilla Firefox may becoming the most popular browser in Linux world but these are also some competitors such as Opera, Konqueror, Google Chrome, Epiphany and others. The above browser has similar function and quite nice to be used on a standard PC. Unfortunately, as a modern and complex  application, all listed browser need  a fast, modern computer with standard modern hardware, such as minimum 256 MB of RAM. If you trying to run one of these on the older hardware, the result may vary but most of them will running slow, even on 256 MB of RAM. Google Chrome may run faster than Mozilla Firefox but overall working with modern browser on an older PC  is very inconvenient.

The older hardware usually used for a few application or dedicated for one or two service which do not need much resources. Browser may be needed for managing web administration. Supporting all the Web standards may not required, rendering most pages correctly, much faster and require less system resources are the most important key points. Such programs usually don’t serve CSS, JavaScript, or more complicated HTML elements.

Actually, older hardware  isn’t the only factor to use lightweight browsers. People may choose to use lightweight browser even on modern hardware, only to get high performance and faster browser experience. GUI or text mode environment, operating system configuration and personal preferences are others factor why lightweight browsers has a unique position in modern computing.

Below are some lightweight Linux browsers for Linux you should consider for fast browsing experience :

1. Midori

Midori (緑, Japanese for green) is a web browser that aims to be lightweight and fast. It uses the WebKit rendering engine and the GTK+ 2 interface.

Features

  • Full integration with GTK+ 2
  • Fast rendering with WebKit
  • Tabs, windows and session management
  • Flexibly configurable Web Search.
  • User scripts and user styles support.
  • Straightforward bookmark management.
  • Customizable and extensible interface.
  • Extensions such as Adblock, form history, mouse gestures or cookie management.

Installing Midori on openSUSE should be easy with One-Click-Install feature on openSUSE Build Service link.

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]]> http://vavai.net/2010/01/18/7-lightweight-linux-browsers-you-may-want-to-consider-for-fast-browsing-experience/feed/ 6 How to Add PHP & Javascript Code to Smarty Template (Serendipity, Pligg) http://vavai.net/2010/01/12/how-to-add-php-javascript-code-to-smarty-template-serendipity-pligg/ http://vavai.net/2010/01/12/how-to-add-php-javascript-code-to-smarty-template-serendipity-pligg/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:47:19 +0000 Masim "Vavai" Sugianto http://vavai.net/?p=1018 I manages various website and some of them are running on Serendipity blog engine or a Digg-looks-alike, Pligg. Both engine use Smarty framework based on PHP code. Although Smarty built from PHP engine, it has different style in code writing than another CMS based on PHP like WordPress. Smarty using their own tags that will be parsed on their engine, so adding Javascript or PHP code can not be directly written in the related tpl file (an extension for Smarty template).

If you wish to add a Javascript code like Google Adsense or a PHP code into Smarty template, use the following tips :

  1. Open your related tpl file and use {php} and {/php} tags to include the PHP file 
    {php}include('/home//vavai/vavai.net/myphpfile.php');{/php}

    Please note that I would prefer to use absolute path and not the relative path instead.

  2. Open your related tpl file and use the {literal} and {/literal} tags to add the Javascript code. Place your Javascript code inside literal tags as shown on the following example : 
    {literal}<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
initializetabcontent("tags_comments")
// ]]></script>{/literal}

On the sample #1, I would prefer to include the php file rather than write the PHP code directly on Smarty file. It will make a code a lot easier to manage, clean, easy to understand and we have a flexible way to add or remove the related file.

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]]> http://vavai.net/2010/01/12/how-to-add-php-javascript-code-to-smarty-template-serendipity-pligg/feed/ 2 Google not so Powerful Anymore? http://vavai.net/2010/01/10/google-not-so-powerful-anymore/ http://vavai.net/2010/01/10/google-not-so-powerful-anymore/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:11:29 +0000 Masim "Vavai" Sugianto http://vavai.net/?p=1010 Google is my preferred search engine for a long period. Google provide  better search result than their competitor in search engine world and they keep their performance for many years, but world may changes. Google may still the biggest search engine but the the result looks not so powerful anymore. Below are my disappointed moment while trying Google :

  1. Google failed to pick the primary source as their preferred search result. As an example, try to search hardware or peripheral driver  (network card, motherboard, modem dll), Google search may end up on various websites who need a  membership or commercial benefit, instead of trusted vendor as original source. Below are the screenshot, showing my search result for dlink dfe-528tx driver. Google display opendrivers, driverskit, driverstock as top search rather than dlink original website.

    Google may not entirely wrong. The problem may also on vendor side, their website may have an unfriendly layout for search engine and not really optimized for better search. Beside the vendor problem, Google should improve their performance, because the wrong result means a low quality of Google
  2. Google search result end up on another search site. Sometimes I got a weird problem. My search result send me to another search site. As an example, my search query on Google display the search page on Google, but some URL references to a web page that display the search result also, but this time on their page. It seems that Google query result has been hijacked by another website. They catch the query and then automatically generate a page based on the query.

Quo vadis Google?

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]]> http://vavai.net/2010/01/10/google-not-so-powerful-anymore/feed/ 2 Drag & Drop Website Builder with BlueVoda http://vavai.net/2009/03/13/drag-drop-website-builder-with-bluevoda/ http://vavai.net/2009/03/13/drag-drop-website-builder-with-bluevoda/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:53:51 +0000 Masim "Vavai" Sugianto http://vavai.net/?p=590 I’m not a web designer nor web programmer but I’m a web design lover. I often browsing the web only for finding good design as new idea to develop a brand new website. With a fewer knowledge upon web design, I always use professional service to do what I mean regarding website development.  Blog popularity and the development of it’s themes & templates helped me a lot for finding another good design with cheap or less price.

Nevertheless, how if I want to design my personal website with all of stuff closed with my requirement without worried about technical design ? Is this possible to use some application to build a professional web design with less knowledge ? Website builder is an answer for my requirement.

Website builder is an application for building instant website without worry with technical design. I have an experience with popular website builder called Microsoft Front Page in the past but I’m unhappy and not really comfortable with it’s quality. The result was quite  standard.  The wizard itself was smart enough to fit with my requirement but the feature are too limited.

Yesterday I accidentally found a new application tools for create website.  called BlueVoda. It’s a windows based website builder. I’m installing the application inside Linux openSUSE over CrossOver Office professional

Installation process only need a few step. In a few minutes later, I could accessing the application and starting build web design.

Although it’s the first time I’m using BlueVoda, the instruction was smart enough and clear. Drag & drop wizard guided me for designing my first website by my own hand. Beside standard features, BlueVoda also attached pre-designed which could be used for web design format later.

If you wish build the web design by your hand without worry  with technical details, try BlueVoda

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]]> http://vavai.net/2009/03/13/drag-drop-website-builder-with-bluevoda/feed/ 3 Qt 4.5 & Qt Creator 1.0 Released http://vavai.net/2009/03/04/qt-45-qt-creator-10-released/ http://vavai.net/2009/03/04/qt-45-qt-creator-10-released/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:01:54 +0000 Masim "Vavai" Sugianto http://vavai.net/?p=563 qt-logoTrolltech, company behind popular C++ programming toolkit  Qt announced  the availability of Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator 1.0

Qt Creator is a brand new and powerful IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for developing Qt application. Beside  Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator 1.0, Trolltech also provide Qt SDK for helping developer get in touch with Qt. Qt 4.5 release with a new licensing schema with  LGPL beside commercial and GPL license those available on previous edition.

Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator 1.0 available for download at http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads. It seems the download server has too many download request because I got a low connection while trying to download the Qt for Linux from my hosting server. Please feel free to used torrent service if you wish another option for downloading or you have any difficulties for download from http.

Qt 4.5 NOW AVAILABLE
——————–
Qt 4.5 is now available for download from the Qt Software website. For Qt 4.5, the Qt development team focused on:
- Improving the runtime performance of Qt-based applications
- Enabling users to take advantage of the latest version of WebKit
- Adding support for 64-bit development on Apple’s Cocoa Framework

Qt CREATOR 1.0 RELEASED
———————–
Qt Creator is a new, cross-platform IDE tailored to the needs of Qt developers. Qt Creator is available under the LGPL license for download from the Qt Software website.

FIRST-EVER COMPLETE Qt SDK
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The Qt SDK is a complete Qt development environment in a single binary package. Packages are available for Windows, Mac and Linux, with support for embedded development coming later this year. The Qt SDK is available under the LGPL license on the Qt Software website.

For more information about Qt 4.5, Qt Creator and the Qt SDK, please visit http://www.qtsoftware.com/whatsnew.

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]]> http://vavai.net/2009/03/04/qt-45-qt-creator-10-released/feed/ 4 PDFtoWord : The Most Accurate PDF-to-Word Converter http://vavai.net/2009/02/27/pdftoword-the-most-accurate-pdf-to-word-converter/ http://vavai.net/2009/02/27/pdftoword-the-most-accurate-pdf-to-word-converter/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:09:52 +0000 Masim "Vavai" Sugianto http://vavai.net/?p=536 pdftoword

I’m waiting this for a long time. I have some good tutorial (according to myself, huh :-D ) written in 2004-2008. The tutorial written with Open Office 1.3 and 1.4 and converted into PDF for better distribution. I provide it for free (which somehow inspired me to building Indonesian openSUSE community). I want to make an update to the tutorial regarding some software update but I don’t want too many changes and complicated task. I need an easy way to re-convert PDF document into Doc or RTF and then edit it with my Word Processor.

I have trying and using some PDF converter, including Adobe Acrobat, PDFEdit and some open source application to convert my PDF document but all the result doesn’t make me happy.

Yesterday, I found new beta service for converting PDT to Word or RTF document called PDFtoWord  provided by some guys behind the Nitro PDF Professional. PDFtoWord is an online service for converting PDF into DOC or RTF document and claims that it was The Most Accurate PDF-to-Word Converter. Is this true ? Well, it’s time to checked it whether it’s true or just a marketing gimmick.

I signup the beta service with signup code lifehackers (I heard this service from Lifehacker) and a few minutes later, I got this email :

Hi,

Thanks for applying to join the private beta for our new (and free) PDF-to-Word conversion service. The private beta program is already full, however we’ll be expanding the beta program to include you in the next few days.

We’ll be in touch shortly with details on how you can participate in the beta.

* Learn about the PDF-to-Word converter

In the meantime, for in-depth information on what our converter can do and how it works, read our detailed feature list.

http://www.pdftoword.com/features.htm

Maybe the service is not available for me now :-) .The story ended :-( .

But, wait, I got the second email a day later and confirmed that I could try their service because they expand the service to new beta tester.

The service provide a good navigation for their main service. Just upload your document, choose DOC or RTF file type and then provide your email address. PDFtoWord will processing the document, and then send the converted document into our email. The processing time may vary depending our document size but they limited the maximum source document size is 10 MB.

pdf-converter

I only need a few time for processing about 1 MB document which contains some picture and text. The result was quite satisfied. I think the result is the best ever of converted document from PDF to doc or RTF. Some picture has broken alignment and some font has incorrect type but it’s all gathered successfully and text converted without problem. Although I must edit the document to make it more better, it’s enough to make me happy.

It’s the source document :

source-document

and it’s the converted document :

result-document

Another result from  Lifehacker article : PDF-to-Word Converter Pulls Readable Text from Scanned Images [Conversion]

another-result

If you want to try their service, signup using beta invite code : lifehackers. Hope the beta code tester still available to be used.

Information : PDFtoWord i’s a public and online service. If you think you would worried to send the confidential document into public service, do not do this. Please take care your decision as long as you must taken any risk regarding the threat to your document.

Beside this point, PDFtoWord has a good policy for protecting your privacy. Checked it out here.

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Petr Mladek has posted the availability of OpenOffice 3.0 package on stable openSUSE repository. The package based on GO-OO project, and most likely using same package as built for OpenOffice Novell Edition. Compared to OpenOffice community edition, it has a lot optimization, bug fixes, and add the key features for enterprise support (VBA, import capabilities and interoperability)

How to update current OpenOffice into latest version ?

  • Using YAST
    1. Add Installation source : YAST | Software | Software Repositories. I’m using  http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0/ as y base repository. Try to used nearest mirror instead.
    2. Update : YAST | Software | Software Management. Choose OpenOffice Repositories and use “Package | All in This List | Update if Newer Version Available”, then click Accept
  • Using Zypper 
    zypper ar http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#OpenOffice.org_STABLE openoffice
zypper ref
zypper up

Note:

openSUSE-11.1-betaX and FACTORY include totaly reworked packages where the build is split into many source packages. It is a bit broken right now. We would like to put it into the Build Service as soon as possible but it will take some time to fix the build on older distributions again. Please be patient.

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The easiest way maybe by using Network Print Server and printing with TCP-IP printing protocol. You must buy a network print server or designed a host as network print server. If you have attached the printer into Windows system, you may using another trick : Using LPD protocol. This method is easy to setup and you do not need to buy anything.

We need 2 step to make this possible. Initial phase is preparing Windows to provide LPD protocol and the second phase is add printer on the Linux host.

Preparing Windows Host :

  1. Install printer driver and test local printing.
  2. Go to Setting | Control Panel | Add-Remove Program
  3. Choose Windows Component
  4. Install (give a thick on) Other Network File and Print Services
  5. Click Next and following the wizard
  6. Activating the services so the protocol will be activated during Windows boot. Go to Setting | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services. Enable the TCP-IP Print Server service
  7. Share the printer
  8. Write down your Windows IP Address. You could checked this by typing IPConfig on the command prompt

Preparing Linux Host

  1. Add printer using KDE Control Center or Personal Setting or Desktop Setting
  2. Choose LPD Protocol on the protocol wizard entry
  3. Entry the Windows host IP Address and name of shared printer
  4. Testing the printer

Reference (Indonesian) :

  1. Tips Koneksi dari Linux ke Windows

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What is the different between OpenOffice Novell Edition and Upstream (community) edition ? Well, The community or upstream edition of OpenOffice.org lacks the enterprise support that is essential for business
customers . The community edition of OpenOffice.org also lacks some of the key features such as stronger
interoperability with Microsoft Office files and rich file import capabilities. Some of the missing import capabilities include Microsoft Works files, WordPerfect files and scalable vector graphics.

In fact, it would be a blessing in disguise with the Novell-Microsoft Agreement. The agreement give Novell a right and opportuinity to provide better support for key features on interoperability with Microsoft Office files and rich file import capabilities. If you have heard about Go-oo project which provide ‘future version’ of OpenOffice, the project was initiated by Michael Meeks, an engineer employed by Novell.

So, what is the benefit by using OpenOffice Novell Edition instead of community edition ? Below is the description about OpenOffice Novell Edition for Windows and the requirement. If you wish to use OpenOffice Novell Edition for Linux, try openSUSE ;-)

OpenOffice.org Novell® Edition for Windows* is a full productivity suite which provides word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities. With OpenOffice.org Novell Edition for Windows, enterprises can dramatically lower costs while gaining the key functionality of Microsoft* Office and interoperability with Microsoft Office file formats.

Key Features of OpenOffice.org Novell Edition for Windows OpenOffice.org Novell Edition for Windows contains enhancements and bug fixes, especially for interoperability with Microsoft Office and other word processing programs, that are not available in the standard edition. These enhancements include:

  • Microsoft Excel*: Compatibility: Improved Excel compatibility for certain built-in functions (e.g., CELL, INFO, INDIRECT), hyperlinks and filters, improved ergonomics, and support for “R1C1″ style addresses. Improved performance on certain text functions such as SEARCH. Natural sorting option in cell range sorting.
  • Excel VBA Macro Interoperability: OpenOffice.org Novell Edition eases the migration of many macros from Microsoft Excel. Although not all macros can be successfully migrated, this interoperability offers more than the standard edition, which does not support migration of macros.
  • Data Pilots: Data Pilots are interoperable with Microsoft Office PivotTables*. OpenOffice.org Novell Edition substantially improves the Data Pilot feature, making it possible to edit pilots after creation.
  • Enhanced Fonts: Licensed fonts from Agfa* Monotype* which are metrically identical and visually compatible with some of the key Microsoft fonts. This allows OpenOffice.org Novell Edition to match fonts when opening documents originally composed in Microsoft Office, and very closely match pagination and page formatting.
  • EMF+Support: The ability to render EMF+ formatted graphics
  • SVG Support: The ability to import scalable vector graphics.
  • Import File Formats: Microsoft Works, WordPerfect* text and graphics, T602 files, OfficeOpen XML, and more.
  • Groupwise® Integration:OpenOffice.org Novell Edition includes improved integration with ODMA (Open Document Management Architecture) services, for example for GroupWise. If you have the GroupWise client installed on the machine, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition will offer to open documents from GroupWise, or save documents in GroupWise.

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows minimum system requirements:

  • Windows 2000* (Service Pack 3 or higher), Windows XP* (Service Pack 2 or higher), Windows Vista*
  • 128 MB RAM
  • 200 MB available disk space
  • 800 x 600 or higher resolution with at least 256 colors

Microsoft Windows recommended system requirements

  • Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 or higher), Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or higher), Windows Vista
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 200 MB available disk space
  • 1024 x 600 or higher resolution with at least 65,536 colors

Download

You may download the iso and zip file from Novell Download page or  If you need direct download links, you may download the iso from this link.


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