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

traGtor 0.8.44: ffmpeg changed output again

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

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.

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)

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

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.

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!

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 .)

xplanetFX: Template Special – Halloween!

Sonntag, den 30. Oktober 2011

For the ones who love to observe this strange happening born in Ireland and borrowed by the U.S. guys – here it is: our planet as a stupid looking pumpkin with a silly plug in his head orbited by a small – erm… basketball? Whatever. Have a good time while celebrating!

Please note: this template will only be available for a couple of days – like the Christmas Special.

Damn.. I’ve forgotten to mention some of the original artists of the base images in these screenshots – sorry for that! The original templates and the template information on the website of course do have the copyleft information included.

Ardour Dark Template

Mittwoch, den 26. Oktober 2011

Debian Weezy is installed and Calf and Ardour are compiled – the studio seems online again. As long as I use Ardour the dark blueish theme with the industrial grey faders was biting my eyes. So I decided to mod the original dark Ardour UI templateb a bit, the result can be downloaded here.

You have to determine where Ardour is installed, usually in /usr or /usr/local.

sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf ardour_dark_ui.tar.gz

or

sudo tar -C /usr -xzf ardour_dark_ui.tar.gz

ImageMagick support f***ing rocks!!1

Montag, den 24. Oktober 2011

Just want to let the world know about the unbelievable great support of the ImageMagick devs/supporters/community. I had a mind-breaking problem with a requested style [1, 2] for the eschaton template I needed a solution for. And I think just reading my support request takes enough time one could better masturbate, have a beer or do something more satisfying than trying to get in this big pile of shit.

But the guys – especially Anthony – stayed on line and replied partially within two hours – so I think it’s time for promoting my respect and my thankfulness.

Finally a little warning for the minors: don’t try this at home with your commercial dealer/provider.