Linux, shoes, and pictures

TRUST ME, those Linux zealots have never had to print thirty-odd pictures of shoes on a high-end inkjet printer from Linux. I suspect that if they had, they would admit that maybe Linux is just not there yet.

I have tried, and I can tell you that even the great gutenprint does not cut it. I ended up making all the prints from Mac OS X, but later found the excellent TurboPrint for Linux — sorry again, Linux zealots, it’s not open-source.

Why was I printing pictures of shoes anyway? Girls will relate. When you have so many pairs of shoes, getting ready to go out can become tedious if you have to open all the boxes to get the right ones. A simple solution is to affix a picture of the contents on each shoe-box.

Gee, a post that has something for everyone: Linux, shoe fetish, fashion tip, and photography.

Eddy.

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This YouTube they speak of

SOMEONE at home is crazy about videos, and it is not me — I’m more into pictures, if you haven’t noticed. Anyway, I shot, edited, and uploaded my first today. The Flip was supposed to automate things, but the software that came with it did not work on Leopard, so I ended up making the edits and upload in iMovie. Talking about killing a fly with a shotgun…

As minor as the edits are (title overlay and frame removal), I am quite pleased with them. I was skeptical about the odds of getting 175MB AVI files onto YouTube, but there appears to be some black magic going on somewhere between iMovie and YouTube that makes this happen.

The videos won’t win awards, but the ten-minute sega-thon might. Enjoy.

Eddy.

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