xplanetFX renders high quality wallpapers of mother earth on your desktop. An extensive GUI (GTK) provides a lot of features and settings. Various templates place the planet inside different scenes and make shure your desktop never gets boring again. With realtime light, shadows and clouds!

traGtor is a graphical user interface for the awesome conversion tool ffmpeg. With multi streams, presets, multi language and a lot of other features traGtor is a handy tool for converting all audio and video formats through ffmpeg. traGtor is based on GTK and Python.

Calf studiogear is an extensive and high quality plugin pack for professional audio production under Linux. It provides a lot of synthesizers, effects and signal processing for the use with LV2 audio production suites (like Ardour) or as stand-alone through JACK.

Calf with all of its new features and processors isn't officially released by now so you have to grab the GIT-repository from sourceforge.net until we are ready for a stable release.

» calf.sourceforge.net

guess is a tool to launch (and kill) different setups of programs. It was invented to startup all needed synthesizers, audio suites, MIDI sequencers and stuff with the correct source files on the right desktop for a single audio production with just one click.

xplanetFX - series: Mit xplanetFX ganze Bilderserien erstellen

oRainge Theme: GTK-, GDM-, Metacity-, Icons-Theme

oRainge gDesklets: Sprechende Uhren, Kalender, System-Widgets (manual)

photogen:c SVG-Icons: Diverse High-Quality-Icons im SVG-Format

traffick: Serverumgebungen testen. Durch skalierbares Threading erzeugt traffick Unmengen an Suchanfragen und Webseitenaufrufen, um ein hohes Maß an Vorratsdaten Netzwerkauslastung zu simulieren.

GIMP Plug-In “Moderated Blur” for Tilt Shift and Depth-Of-Field Effects

stuff (de) guess calf traGtor xplanetFX

xplanetFX: template “Eschaton” updated with style “Garbage”

Mittwoch, den 11. Januar 2012

So, Voßhage. Glücklich? Besser mit Version 2.4.x benutzen

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traGtor 0.8.45: separation char and name/path buttons

Mittwoch, den 11. Januar 2012 
Version 0.8.45:
* Auto detection of stream separation char in newer ffmpeg
* Buttons to set path and name like source file in out file tab
* Changes in the italian language file – thanks to Fabio “Regulus” Boccaletti!

Damn, I bet this was the longest time you had to wait for an urgent update :/ Sorry for that.

Some things are untested (e.g. if a stream has a language indicator) so hopefully  it doesn’t break things.

Big thanks to telperion for his contribution about the newer separation char and the bug with the size detection!

Oh an don’t miss this:

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GIMP Plug-In “Moderated Blur” for Tilt Shift or Depth-Of-Field Effects

Sonntag, den 1. Januar 2012

I often needed this kind of plugin to add some depth to images and always used creepy workarounds to get my results. Yesterday I started thinking about the problem of dynamic blur radiants and now “Moderated Blur” is available as a Python-Fu plug-in for GIMP.

This plugin enables dynamic transitions between blur radiants and can be used for a lot of camera- and optical effects (example). It uses a grayscale map to determine the blur radiant and can be configured with some options:

  • Moderator: Select the layer that will be converted to greyscale and that will be used as the “blur map”
  • Min Blur: The minimum blur, used in black areas of the map
  • Max Blur: The maximum blur, used in white regions of the map
  • Accuracy: The amount of different regions. Each region is blurred on its own so this raises render time.
  • Order: Which blur intensity should be composited on top? Use Min for sharp edges and Max for soft transitions.
  • Scale: Use logarithmic or linear blur radiants. Logarithmic blur starts softer and creates a nicer field of depth.

Installation

Download the script, unpack it an move it to ~/.gimp-x.x/plug-ins/

Usage

  • Create a layer with grayscale content where white will trigger the highest blur radiant and black will use the minimum blur. Move it whereever you want in your layer stack, you can even set its opacity to 0.
  • Select the layer to be affected
  • Choose Filters -> Moderated Blur
  • Choose the moderator layer you created, make other settings and start the process
  • Optionally remove the moderator layer afterwards

Examples

Focus on my shitface

Test 1 source + Test 1 moderator = Test 1 result

Field Of Depth

Test 2 source + Test 2 moderator = Test 2 result

Tilt Shift (Fake Minitures)

Test 3 source + Test 3 moderator = Test 3 result

Depth with edges

(Yes, the mask was dashed off – just thought as a demo)

Test 4 source + Test 4 moderator = Test 4 result

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traGtor 0.8.44: ffmpeg changed output again

Samstag, den 3. Dezember 2011 
Version 0.8.44:
* Newer ffmpeg changed . to : in stream definition

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xplanetFX: Christmas Special

Freitag, den 2. Dezember 2011

Here it is again – the proper style for the christian fraction these days. It will be banged up again when the materialistic festivities are over and the annual sales are reached.

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traGtor 0.8.43: 2-Pass stuff

Sonntag, den 13. November 2011 
Version 0.8.43:
* Send video file in first pass to /dev/null
* Confirmation window resizable
* Cleanup 2 pass log file (configurable)

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xplanetFX 2.4.4: bugs in autostart and libwww-perl

Mittwoch, den 9. November 2011 
Version 2.4.4:
* libwww-perl as dependency in control file and as target in --setup
* Bug in creating autostart entries in GNOME and KDE if xplanetFX is the first
  application installed in a fresh home folder

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xplanetFX in der LinuxUser Juli 2011

Mittwoch, den 9. November 2011

Erm… what?! xplanetFX hat’s im Juli tatsächlich in die LinuxUser geschafft?! !1 Unfassbar! Geht ja dann wohl nahtlos weiter mit Starrummel und Groupies pimpern. Ich glaub’, ich muss mal zum Frisör.

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xplanetFX 2.4.2: Bug on some ImageMagick’s with atmosphere

Mittwoch, den 2. November 2011 
Version 2.4.2:
* Bug with different ImageMagick versions: atmosphere was blurred above the
  earths edge and cut on the layers dimensions

Thanks a lot to Flav for the report and his help!

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xplanetFX: template “Halloween” updated

Montag, den 31. Oktober 2011

The stars in the background looked kind of … wtf?! And finally we have copyleft details in the screenshots again .)

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