Have you ever wished you had an option in Linux / Gnome, so that when right clicking file you could send them to, let's say an USB drive? You can do this with a simple Nautilus script called send-to-media.

Creating a fluid width (extensible) banner is quite easy but using one that has images is a bit tricky. In this article, I am going to explain how to create a fluid width image banner.

Fluid width means the banner must keep it's aspect, no matter the browser / screen width (more or less). For instance, if we have a banner with an image on the right side and some text on the left, it's not that easy making the banner expand / shrink so that it looks the same on any screen resolution. But with some CSS, this can be done in just a few minutes.

Go to the DEMO PAGE and change the size of your browser's width. The banner will look the same, even if you shrink or enlarge the window (sure, if you shrink it too much, It won't look good anymore, but that's because I used 2 quite large images for the left and right parts of the banner; I guess I could have made them smaller but it's all the same in the end...).

You can look at the source code of that page. You'll notice that the whole banner is not just one image, but actually three.

DivFix++ is an open source AVI video repair and preview software which works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. It was designed for repair and preview of files downloaded from bittorrent, gnutella, emule, ftp, web or any such source and it can repair AVI and DivX files (for now).

The interface and operation are straight forward. Just select where you want the repaired file to be saved, use drag and drop to add the videos which need repairing, into the Source Files pane and that's about it. Repair time was fairly quick and the resource utilization is pretty low. The application requires no installation on Windows, you just simply have to unzip the archive.

I just came across MahTweets (via lifehacker), a plug-in based Twitter client (Windows only) which also integrates with Facebook, RSS Feeds, Identi.ca and more, and offers all kinds of handy customizations . They are all offered as plugins, you can add them one by one from Options. There are also upload plugins which allows users to upload photos to Flickr, Twitgoo, TwitPic, and Yfrog.

HeliosPaint is a complete program of drawing and image editing with a wide palette of tools to unleash your creativity. You can use it to create icons, edit photos and so on. Being a Java application, it is cross-platform, working on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

Draw lines or hand lines to create polygons with unbelievable shapes and paint the inside with a click, write or draw with spray are the basic utilities. But HeliosPaint has more. We can cut a piece of the image in the form of a rectangle or other geometric shape or automatically select a shape with the magic wand tool. And as for the retouching of photographs, HeliosPaint can rotate or deform giving perspective, and even add filters to change colors, appear to blur or painted in oil.

Among HeliosPaint features are:

Update: KernelCheck stopped working again. See this post for a patch (.deb): KernelCheck Fixed .Deb Download [Ubuntu / Debian]

KernelCheck is a a program that automatically compiles and installs the latest Kernel for Debian based Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.). The program also allows for automatic installation of proprietary video drivers via EnvyNG.

Unfortunately, KernelCheck hasn't been working for a few months do to some changes made on Kernel.org website.

But a patch has been released two days ago which fixes KernelCheck.

RPhoto is an open-source image viewer and editor for Windows and Linux. Its origin resides in the lack of a simple software capable of cropping photos with a constant ratio, to avoid white borders when printing.

RPhoto is lightweight, very fast, and offers basic rotate, resize and crop functions, optimizes JPEG files, has a built-in file explorer and is able to read EXIF data.

You may have heard of Andrew Wyatt, a lead developer for Eeebuntu which recently posted on his personal blog that he is fed up with Ubuntu and he will abandon the project.

Well, he is not abandoning Eeebuntu, but instead, Eeebuntu will switch to Debian. That's right, Eeebuntu 4.0 will not be created with Ubuntu as the core, but instead it will be build upon Debian Unstable.

AutoCAD is one of the most expensive applications, but also indispensable for many types of jobs. Being so expensive, it's a good reason to look for free alternatives. QCad is one of the alternatives but sometimes it's just not enough.

BRL-CAD is a free, open-source alternative to AutoCAD, developed by the U.S. military in collaboration with NASA. It offers more than 400 tools, utilities, and applications comprising more than a million lines of source code. The package is intentionally designed to be extensively cross-platform and is actively developed on and maintained for many common operating system environments including for BSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows among others.

Download BRL-CAD | Ubuntu .deb download

[via ubuntronics]

Vega Strike is an free and Open Source 3D Action-Space-Sim (works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX) that lets you trade, fight, and explore in a vast universe .

Vega Strike aims to insert players into a large, dynamic universe with diverse factions of varying disposition to the player and to each other, and an economy model where trade, combat and exploration are all profitable. Financial gains allow the player to buy upgrades and/or better vehicles, thus enabling him/her to advance into more dangerous and profitable missions. The player can have varying levels of relations with factions. Negative relations can form if the player kills some of a given faction’s ships. Positive relations can be formed if the player destroys ships that are part of an enemy to a given faction. Players can either buy and sell cargo, or accept missions from the Mission Computer, as well as talking to people in the local bar at the space station/planet. In the tradition of some precursor games, individuals of significant plot importance are often found in bars.