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Get Apple’s new Safari 4 beta on Linux now .. here’s how.

Fresh from installing Fontmatrix 0.5.0 from SVN and it’s rocking my socks. It ticks nearly all, if not all, the boxes as far as what I need from a font manager. Here are a couple of screenshots (from KDE 4.2 beta on Kubuntu) showing some of the innovative features implemented. [Details on compiling at the end].

Here’s one you may have pondered, can you pipe ls through less and keep the colours? Well, yes, yes you can and you can even set it up to work just by typing “ls”. Well the answer is in the man pages, from “man ls”:

Updated 2010-10-18. Moving windows with keyboard shortcuts If your mouse is broken or your window has disappeared off-screen or for whatever reason … Windows Alt+Space, M, then use cursor keys, hit Enter to set position. Note that Alt+Space, X will maximise a window to fill the current viewport; useful if your window is completely off [...]

I’m trying to edit a small clip from a larger program, add titling and post to YouTube. The clip is a section of TV program called Best of Friends and shows a pottery challenge throwing a pot on the potters wheel at Barefoot Ceramics. Anyway, FOSS linux apps I’m auditioning (at least I think they’re [...]

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 [...]