Sat, 03 Jun 2006

Tools I use for my research/daily work under Linux (1 ??)

dia: illustrations -- simple, intuitive, capable, works under all different OS'es.

gimp: no comments needed. not too often needed for research.

 R: I have very rudimentary knowledge but it is becoming more and more popular. (r-project).

imagemagick: very capable, can be scripted. for edting images.

openoffice: mainly to view other people's word documents or power point documents and to steal figures from them. very capable office environment. I do not use it a lot since I prefer using LaTeX for typesetting almost everything and I use emacs as an editor.

LaTex: I do all my note-taking, report preparation (automatized with matlab), slide presentations (prosper), paper writing, grant writing etc. I use its capabilities for including movies and other things.

 
xpdf and sometimes acrobat reader: viewing pdf files.

 emacs: my main editor under linux (and windows if I have to use one). not a power user unfortunately.

 bibus: end-note like utility for open office. works well but is hard to install.

 
ofcourse firefox as a web browser.

mutt for reading e-mails, online or off-line. 

rn or slrn for usenet newsgroups.

vmware: sometimes I have to use  hardware/software that requires windows. I use an old version of vmware, keep a clean virtual machine of windows 2000 handy, copy it around if it is messed up by viri etc.

 
combination of ps2edit, scribus, open office drawing, ghostview and direct editing with emacs for handling adobe illustrator files, editing old eps files etc.

perl and bash scripting for moving files around, renaming etc.

ufraw with or without gimp for handling raw format photos.

gqview for viewing and flphoto for making photo albums.

basch scripting. ofcourse.

k3b for CD/dvd writing.

mplayer for playing videos.

unison to sync my computers.

rsbackup for backups.

 
eterm for reading turkish characters in my e-mails.

qcad for technical drawings.

and this is all I can think of now. more to come later.

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Mon, 01 May 2006

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I like imagemagick a lot but I have been lazy and never really gotten to master it. I use it nearly everyday in its simplest form. I was playing with the tutorials at http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/montage/ and found the following tricks useful:

1)  convert 'vid:*.jpg' VID_INDEX.html  which generates a nice clickable matrix and html file. such as here.

2)  montage -label '%f\n%wx%h' -size 256x256 '*.jpg[120x190]' -strip  -tile 5x -frame 5 -shadow -geometry 120x90+5+5 INDEX.html  which generates a similar thing using different tools such as here.

3)  And what I will post in a minute using montage -adjoin -geometry '+2+2' -tile 4x1 'dsc*.jpg[20%x20%]' sil.jpg

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