Archive for the ‘Tips/Tricks’ Category
goosh.org – unofficial google shell
Front-end old-style terminal interface, for web services like those provided by Google and Yahoo.
| command | aliases | parameters | function |
| web | (search,s,w) | [keywords] | google web search |
| news | (n) | [keywords] | google news search |
| more | (m) | get more results | |
| blogs | (blog,b) | [keywords] | google blog search |
| read | (rss,r) | <url> | read feed of url |
| feeds | (feed,f) | [keywords] | google feed search |
| place | (places,map,p) | [address] | google maps search |
| translate | (trans,t) | [lang1] [lang2] <words> | google translation |
| images | (image,i) | [keywords] | google image search |
| video | (videos,v) | [keywords] | google video search |
| clear | (c) | clear the screen | |
| wiki | (wikipedia) | [keywords] | wikipedia search |
| help | (man,h,?) | [command] | displays help text |
| cd | <command> | change mode | |
| site | (in) | <url> <keywords> | search in a specific website |
| open | (o) | <url> | open url in new window |
| go | (g) | <url> | open url |
| lucky | (l) | [keywords] | go directly to first result |
| ls | [command] | lists commands | |
| addengine | add goosh to firefox search box | ||
| load | <extension_url> | load an extension | |
| calculate | (calc) | [mathematical expression] | evaluate a mathematical expression |
| settings | (set) | [name] [value] | edit settings |
| gmail | (mail) | [compose] | read & write mail in gmail * |
| login | login with your google account * | ||
| logout | log out of goosh * |
- Enter green commands without parameters to change default mode.
- Anything that’s not a command will search in current default mode.
- Aliases will expand to commands. Numbers will expand to corresponding search results.
- Use cursor up and down for command history.
- Enter keyword and hit the tab-key for tab-completion.
- Commands marked with * are experimental, use them with care and please report any bugs.
Site: http://goosh.org
Project site: http://code.google.com/p/goosh/
3 good applications to import from camera/videocamera
There are many applications out there for Linux that can import to your computer. But we will list 3 of them, probably the best 3 open sourced applications out there today.
F-Spot
F-Spot supports 16 common files types, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, and others.
Import your photos from your hard drive, camera (including PTP type), or iPod.
Creating a CD of photos is just clicks away. Simply select the photos you wish to have on CD, and choose “Export to CD” from the main menu.
If you have a Flickr, 23, Picasa Web or SmugMug account, F-Spot can export photos to it, while optionally resizing your selection, and preserving tags and metadata.
You can also export to Gallery or O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l. powered websites, or a nicely themed static webpage.
Shotwell
Shotwell Features:
1. Import: Import photos from folders or from any digital camera supported by gPhoto.
2. Organize: Shotwell automatically groups photos taken at the same time. You can also use tags to organize your photo collection.
3. Edit: You can rotate, crop, reduce red-eye, and adjust the exposure, saturation, tint, and temperature of each photo.
4. Publish: Publish photos to Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums.
Rapid Photo Downloader
This one isn’t like the 2 others, as this application is a pure import application. So if you only plan to import photos/videos, then i would go for this application. No question about it.
Conclusion
If you need a great feature rich application, then F-spot is the one for you. Specially the version 0.71 that was recently released.
If you only need to grab a few photos and easy to upload them to facebook or flickr, then Shotwell is the one to use. It’s more slimmed, but remember it cant handle as much file types that f-spot do.
If you need a pure import application, then go for rapid-photo-downloader.
To install these ones in Foresight, open terminal and write:
sudo conary update f-spot
sudo conary update shotwell
sudo conary update rapid-photo-downloader
The version of the applications we got today is:
f-spot 0.7.1
rapid-photo-downloader 0.3.0
shotwell 0.6.1
Useful plugins in Chromium Browser
More and more users, specially Linux users are starting to use Chromium instead of Firefox.
So here is a list of useful plugins that I use:
If you use Google Reader and don’t want to use anything else for RSS feeds, then use these:
Google Reader Checker or Google Reader Notifier (by Google)
Those 2 will make you easily to add new feeds and eaily to see when a new post has come to any of your google reader feeds.
If you don’t care about Google Reader, and want a live rss feed instead. Then use this one:
That one looks through your open tabs and can recommend all feeds you can add from those tabs. Also easily to modify RSS Live plugin.
Here is some great other plugins:
Twitter and Facebook
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All tested with Foresight Linux and Chromium browser. Also tested with current chromium ver 5.0.379.0 (44762)
