viewnior – another image viewer on Linux (with support for GIF)

2010-09-25 1 min read Fedora Linux Photo

Here is another Linux viewer (Image) that is worth a mention. URL : <a href="http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior">http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior

Description :

Viewnior is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer program. Created to be simple, fast and elegant.  It&#8217;s minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. Among  its features are:

  • Fullscreen & Slideshow
  • Rotate, flip, save, delete images
  • Animation support
  • Browse only selected images
  • Navigation window
  • Simple interface
  • Configurable <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">mouse actions

The best part about the viewer is the ability to display gif inherently. Worth a look if you are using a lot of gif images.

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bash script to run a command and take screenshot in every loop.

2010-09-24 2 min read Bash Fedora Learning Linux

Couple of days back, I had posted a command to display a stop timer with bash and echo. There I had also put the following gif file:

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2555" title="bash screenshot for the script output" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/temp-300x170.gif" alt="bash screenshot for the script output" width="300" height="170" />

Here the tricky part was to capture the jpg&#8217;s to create the gif file.

Preparation:

  1. Rename the terminal to aka – amit-capture

  2. Execute the command once with the import command and check the output and jpg&#8217;s

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F-Spot photo viewer – another tool with option to view the exif data.

2010-09-22 1 min read Photo

Here is another tool worth looking at for <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">Image Viewer. Its called F-spot and the description for the same is as below :

F-Spot is an application designed to provide personal photo management to the GNOME desktop. Features include import, export, printing and advanced sorting and tagging of digital images.

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bash – echo command with option to display the output on the same line.

2010-09-21 2 min read Bash Fedora Learning Linux

Here is a nice little trick to display the output in the same line :

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      &nbsp;<span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="re5">-ne</span> <span class="st0">"output\<span class="es1">\r</span>"</span>
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The trick here is simple, first we disable the <a class="zem_slink" title="Newline" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline">newline printed by <a class="zem_slink" title="Echo (command)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%28command%29">echo command with the &#8221;-n&#8221; option and then we enable the interpretation of the <a class="zem_slink" title="Backslash" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash">backslash characters with the &#8221;-e&#8221; option. As the &#8221;\r&#8221; is used as <a class="zem_slink" title="Carriage return" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_return">carriage return which brings you to the start of the line without the newline (like in <a class="zem_slink" title="Typewriter" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter">typewriter), we will use the same to get the desired effect. So, if you wanted a stopwatch for a 100 seconds on the console then this simple bash <a class="zem_slink" title="For loop" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_loop">for loop would do the same:

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Photos you can take at home and still stunning.

2010-09-19 3 min read Photo

Here are results of some more experiments that I did.

Setup:

  1. 100 Watt <a class="zem_slink" title="Incandescent light bulb" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb">Light Bulb

  2. One Bowl/Plate/Cup (whatever you wish)

  3. <a class="zem_slink" title="Camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera">Camera (<a class="zem_slink" title="Nikon D5000" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D5000">Nikon D5000)

  4. Some balls (These balls come in very small size and you need to keep them in water. Once kept in water for 10-15 days they become 20-30 times of their original size. Sorry, I don&#8217;t know the name as they were gifted to me. In <a class="zem_slink" title="India" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333%20%28India%29&t=h">India it is quite easy to find, not sure about other countries).

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Some home made tricks to take Quality Photos.

2010-09-17 4 min read Photo

For the last 2 days I was trying the new settings of my camera and experimenting to take some new cool pictures. As I never had any formal training on Photography so this was my first real attempt to create photo&#8217;s at my home with whatever was available. So, I started with the following:

  1. 100 Watt Bulb

  2. One Glass

  3. My Camera Nikon D5000

So, here are the results of the experiment:

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