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Well, I thought it would be nice to do some demo’s for using Inkscape. First up though I need to find a decent way to create video screencaps, preferably with audio and notes - though a video editor could be used later with the resulting video.

I used Google and Sourceforge to expand my search and limited the contenders to those with Linux versions. The top app on SF was VirtualDub but it’s Windows only.

Contenders are:

1. http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/
2. http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul
3. http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php : I got my package from the getdeb site.
4. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ : Wink version 2 is currently only available for Windows, which might suggest a move away from Linux.
5. http://epresence.tv/ : they call video captures “screencasts”. Their Producer and Player applications aren’t currently available for Linux.
6. http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

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So you’ve just loaded up Wordpress, Textile, Blogger or whatever, grabbed a default template and now you want to mark the site as your own … add some funky backgrounds.

Well here are a couple of great sites:

• Tartan Designer - please make your tartan look nice though!
• Stripe Generator - for stripes of all orientations

But shush, don’t tell anyone these make life a lot easier creating little bits of background than using my usualy graphics applications - inkscape (SVG editor) and gIMP (pixel pusher).