July 20, 2009 at 6:50 am (News)
I don’t seem to know what happened there, i seem to have totally fizzled out on the blog. I’m pretty busy at the moment but even when I am not i don’t frequent my own blog to to post. I guess i seem to have run out of things to say a bit.
Ahh well, a quick theme change and ill leave the blog for a bit. It will still be here when im gone so i can give it some time, store up some ideas, and come back to it when I am ready. 
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June 17, 2009 at 7:38 am (How-To's)
Tags: cartoon, gimp, how-to
I have played with the vintage photo look quite a bit this week. My next piccy intrest though is cartooning piccys. I managed to take / make the following picture of Marie Zefferelli at the Blue Moon Bordello in Second Life.
Done by the following basic steps.
Colour –> Desturate
This makes the picture black and white, to me it looks more cartoonish when finished.
Filter –> Lights –> Add light of choice
Changes depending on what your screenies off and its surroundings. It adds a dash of colour to the pic though, makes it look a bit Sin City’ish.
Filter –> Artistic –> Cartoon
I set both sliders to max to get the maximum coverage of black and basic cartoon look. Adjust according to your needs, undo is your freind.
I also added fog to the picture (another filter) to give it some more… I dunno… Arty feels…. ^^ Afraid i dont have an artistic bone in my body so my stuff realy does look like asic chaff.
Thats more or less it. You may need to hand fill in some black and white as it can often come out to much one way or the other.
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June 14, 2009 at 11:18 am (How-To's)
Tags: gimp, linux, old photos, second life
Ive been playing with gimp trying to make old photos this last few days and have been having some fun success. All pictures were taken in Second Life so of course start out full colour 3D like.
I would take the photo, Cut the bit that i wanted out and put it on a new canvas. Because most of the cuts were not exact sizes, i would start with a large canvas, paste in to the middle of it, then go Image –> Autocrop Image.
Once i had a nice neat piccy i would add a lens flare via Filters –> Light and Shadow –> Lens Flare. A bit of good placement of a flare makes a nice difference to the end result.
I then simply use 2 other filters, all options on both. Filters –> Artistic –> Apply Canvas, followed by Filters –> Decor –> Old Photo.
The end result is what you see above and below. The last picture being an original of the top picture of course. ^^
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June 13, 2009 at 12:17 pm (Applications)
Tags: download, video, youtube
Without a doubt my favorite Firefox extension. Available in both Windows and Linux. The Video download helper. It lets you download videos from Youtube and dozens of other websites.
DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.
Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item
For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you’ll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and others.
Go have a nosey, its a simple plug in for Firefox so a quick and easy setup.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
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June 11, 2009 at 9:57 am (News)
Tags: free, full circle, magazine, ubuntu
I was reminded of this cracking free download magazine yesterday. its a downloadable free magazine about Ubuntu of course.
I went looking for all my old issues last night and in true distro hopper style realised they had been swallowed by the hard drive monster yonks ago. I grabbed the most recent issue and after a quick read found it to still be a really good quality magazine.
Now why cant they sell it in newsagents eh? ^^
Have a nosey and download a copy yourself, its free so whats stopping you? ^^
http://fullcirclemagazine.org/
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June 10, 2009 at 2:22 pm (News)
Tags: magazine, ubuntu, user
I spotted a new magazine in WHSmiths today. Its was called Ubuntu-User and was made by the same people that make Linux-Magazine.
I snarffled a copy of it of course. Now, much though im happy Ubuntu has gotten big enough to make people feel its worth its own magazine, and much though the articles were ok, i wont be buying the secound issue unless it bulks out a bit.
I found myself wondering about the steep price of £8 for such a thin magazine with such little content. Even the disk is a free download and is on the front of every other Linux magazine about.
Anywhos, if your interested you can find their website at ; www.ubuntu-user.com
Happy reading!
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June 10, 2009 at 5:30 am (Linux Online Games)
Tags: blue moon, clairede dirval, live music, second life, sl
Clairede Dirval is live at Blue Moons Weds 10 June at 2pm. Once her again her rocking voice graces our presence and she sing a mix of rock tunes with the most awesome voice! Its always a packed house when she sings, and for a good reason. She sings anything from ‘First Cut is the Deepest’ to ‘Black Horse and the Cherry Tree’. Along with her faithful companion Heather Steampunk and an assortment of cracking fans (including a darned kitty!) she really does have the house dancing. ^^
If you use Ubuntu linux or one of its derivatives there’s a guide to installing Second life through Repos on this site (click Extra Linux Repos on the left of this page).
Claired Dirvals Website : Linkage
Blue Moon Bordello SLurl : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Feschenko/20/233/23
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June 10, 2009 at 5:19 am (Linux Online Games)
Tags: danger from the deep, games, linux
This game looks awesome! Its a submarine combat based game that is still in Alpha. I will hopefully have network play when its finished.
Danger from the Deep (known as dangerdeep or DftD) is a free (as in free speech), Open Source World War II german submarine simulator. The program and source code is available under the GPL license and most of the artwork/data is released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution/NonCommercial/Non-Derivative works).
DftD is currently being developed on Linux (i386 and AMD64) and Windows. There are binarys available for Linux (i386 and amd64), Windows (32bit) and there are some old packages for MacOSX. Danger from the Deep makes use of SDL/OpenGL and thus should be portable to other operating systems or platforms.
DftD has even been reported to work on:
* Windows (2000/XP/98)
* Linux (i386/x86-64/sparc64)
* FreeBSD (x86-64/sparc64/IA64)
* MacOS X (ppc64)
This game is planned as tactical simulation and will be as realistic as our time and knowledge of physics allows. It’s current state is ALPHA, but it is playable. If anyone want’s to contribute in development, you’re welcome, just email the dangerdeep-devel mailing list. Contributing binary packages for various Linux distributions would also be much appreciated.
Its still quite buggy (well, for me, really buggy) but it is playable. You can download the sourcecode from the website and compile it yourself. Have a nosey.
http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/index.html
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June 5, 2009 at 10:24 pm (News)
Tags: linux, linux.com, tour
Ive been having a nosey around the new and improved linux.com recently and ive got say the new website is awesome! I absolutely love it!
It has a mix of blogs, news, guides, documentation, distro news all sorts. Very good, i have bookmarked the site and registered already of course.
I got into the site more though when i read the tour guide (yes there’s a tour of the website).
Go have a nosey, its a really good website now, theres a lot to see.
http://www.linux.com/tour
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