Valentina is an open source pattern making program for clothing. It allows pattern creation using either standard sizing tables or an individual’s set of measurements. It blends new technologies with traditional methods to create a unique pattern making tool.
Currently, there is a lack of affordable software tools designed for creating patterns. Some people faced with this problem resort to using CAD tools or graphical editors designed for other purposes. However, these tools are inadequate when performing certain pattern making tasks (e.g. adding seam allowance, truing a dart, walking a seam). Moreover, these programs are good enough to create a pattern in a single size, but when you want to make changes for another person, you can’t do it quickly. You need to create the pattern from scratch. This is where traditional methods of pattern drafting can be very useful. Why can’t you tell a program how to change the pattern so you don’t need to do it ever again?
How to install Valentina in Ubuntu:
Open terminal from the Dash/Menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run commands below one by one to install the software from PPA:
Papyrus is a free, open-source, and modern note manager focused on privacy, socials, and better user interface.
Papyrus is developed by Aseman Land, the team behind Cutegram telegram client. It’s a fork of Kaqaz project by sialan labs and works on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS soon.
The software provides both desktop and touch version and features:
Notes management by means of labels and categories
Sorting notes by day
Advance and Smart searching in notes
To-Do papers
Backing up notes
Encrypted synchronization via Dropbox among all your devices
Supporting left-to-right and right-to-left languages
Sharing papers with other applications
Assigning password for protecting notes
Attach map and weather to note informations automatically
Attaching photos, audio files and folders to any note
Search on papers by location
Capability of running and sync data on all operating systems (Android, Windows, Linux, Mac and soon other operating systems)
Canvas for painting
Search on papers using weather and temperature, your notes wrote.
Can move data to sd-card (on old phones)
Status and statistics page for notes
Synchronizing files
Install Papyrus in Ubuntu/Linux Mint:
The note manager has an official PPA with supports for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Linux Mint 17 so far.
Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run below commands one by one to add PPA and install the app:
Paper project is a GTK3 and icon theme suite inspired by Google’s material design guidelines. They are developed by Sam Hewitt, the man behind the Moka icons project.
Paper started as a single GTK3 theme. It’s developed primarily for GNOME 3 and other GTK3 desktops. Its design is mostly flat with a minimal use of shadows for depth and looks really beautiful in desktops that make use of the GTK3 headerbars/client-side decorations (e.g. Gnome Shell).
Paper icon theme is under serious development. The GNOME icon theme is the fallback set for missing icons.
How to Install Paper GTK3 & Icon themes:
The developer has created a daily build PPA, available for Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and derivatives.
To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run:
Picty is a free, open-source, and lightweight manager for large photo collections. It is designed around managing metadata and a lossless approach to image handling.
metadata: descriptive and other information about images (created by you, your camera or the programs you use) that are embedded inside image files alongside the pixels.
lossless: by only ever writing information about images, including image processing instructions, as metadata, the original image pixels are never altered allowing you to preserve the images as they were taken on your camera.
Picty is lightweight and has a snappy interface. All the heavy lifting is done on background threads or external processes to ensure the UI never blocks. User is informed of what is going on in the background with progress notifications etc.
Picty Features:
Supports big photo collections (20,000 plus images).
Open more than one collection at a time and transfer images between them.
Collections are:
Folders of images in your local file system.
Images on cameras, phones and other media devices.
Photo hosting services (Flickr currently supported).
picty does not “Import” photos into its own database, it simply provides an interface for accessing them wherever they are. To keep things snappy and to allow you to browse even if you are offline, picty maintains a cache of thumbnails and metadata.
Reads and writes metadata in industry standard formats Exif, IPTC and Xmp
Lossless approach:
picty writes all changes including image edits as metadata. e.g. an image crop is stored as any instruction, the original pixels remain in the file
Changes are stored in picty’s collection cache until you save your metadata changes to the images. You can easily revert unsaved changes that you don’t like.
Basic image editing:
Current support for basic image enhancements such as brightness, contrast, color, cropping, and straightening.
Improvements to those tools and other tools coming soon (red eye reduction, levels, curves, noise reduction)
Image tagging:
Use standard IPTC and Xmp keywords for image tags
A tag tree view lets you easily manage your tags and navigate your collection
Folder view:
Navigate the directory heirarchy of your image collection
Multi-monitor support
picty can be configured to let you browse your collection on one screen and view full screen images on another.
Customizable
Create launchers for external tools
Supports plugins – many of the current features (tagging and folder views, and all of the image editing tools) are provided by plugins
Written in python – batteries included!
How to Install Picty in Ubuntu:
The developer maintains a PPA repository contains the latest Picty packages for Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04, and derivatives (Linux Mint 13/17/17.1).
To add the PPA, open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. When it opens, run command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damien-moore/ppa
Type in your password when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
After you added the PPA, update package cache and install the software by running below two commands one by one:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install picty
For basic raw processing, video thumbnailing, flickr collection, and geotagging support, run command to install below packages:
Go-For-It is a new and open-source to-do list application available for both Windows and Ubuntu Linux. It features a simple and stylish UI with built-in productivity timer.
To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format. This simplifies synchronization with mobile devices and makes it possible to edit tasks using other front-ends.
The developer has created a Youtube video that describes the workflow of this application:
How to Install ‘Go For It’:
The developer, mank319, has built this app into PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and derivatives.
To add the PPA and install the app, open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:
Or you can simply download & click install the .deb package via Software Center (i386 for 32-bit, amd64 for 64-bit) the matches your OS edition at the PPA packages page.
NOTE: Due to the bug related to Unity Overlay Scrollbars, the background sometimes looks like broken. As a workaround, run command below to edit the app’s shortcut file:
Want to organize your photographs into a proper date and time based directory structure? Pivot is a free and open-source tool that organizes your images from the hard drive or directly from the camera. The organization is mainly based on the creation date and time of the images.
Pivot features:
copy photographs and videos from the camera to a pre-selected folder on the hard drive
copy photographs and videos from a folder on the hard drive to a pre-selected other folder
flexibly setup up the renaming process of the copying, including sub folders creation (e.g. by year and/or album)
setup albums based on the creation date of files.
adapt time differences of files from different cameras. This includes EXIF meta data adaptation
setup multiple destination targets. For instance, one destination is the actual gallery, the other one a backup path. You can:
(de-)select every file individually for each destination
choose different naming conventions for each destination
preview the copy results, before actually copying
rename existing files to fit with the newly copied files (only changing of numbering, including changing the number of digits to match the overall number)
add comments to files and hence, to the destination copy of the files, as well – if you wish so.
adapt a lot of settings to your need
remember already copied files. Depending on the settings, these files won’t be copied again.
recognize duplicate files based on a MD5 hash. Only one of these duplicate files will be copied – depending on the user settings.
recognize file times on different ways, if no meta data is present (i.e. for videos)
save adapted file data, as well as album data between sessions
take care of raw/jpeg combinations in the way you like (e.g. same numbering)
Screenshots:
Install Pivot Organization Tool in Ubuntu:
The binary package is available in PPA for Ubuntu 14.04. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
For those who don’t want to add the PPA, grab the .deb package directly from the ppa page and click to open with Ubuntu Software Center and finally install the software.
(Optional) To remove the PPA as well as the software, run:
HDRMerge is an open source tool that makes merging raw images really simple. It fuses two or more raw images into a single raw with an extended dynamic range. It can import any raw image supported by LibRaw, and outputs a DNG 1.4 image with floating point data. The output raw is built from the less noisy pixels of the input, so that shadows maintain as much detail as possible.
To use this HDRMerge, source images must be made with the same camera. Once the input images are loaded, the interface presents you with a 100% preview of the result. The selected pixels from each input image are painted with a different color. You can then pan the result to inspect it.
This tool also offers a bottom toolbar that allows to remove ‘ghosts’ from the resulting image. Once the preview is satisfactory, the Save HDR option of the File menu generates the output DNG file.
Install HDRMerge in Ubuntu 14.04:
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one to install from PPA:
Dear readers, in this tutorial I’m going to show you a beautiful text editor called CutePad. Never heard of? CutePad is an open-source, simple and rather pretty text editor with some handy features. It’s available for Windows and Linux.
Features:
Simple and clean graphical interface.
Real fast start up time.
Ability to read and write any text document.
Can be export the document as PDF format.
Insert Images, tables, dates and times easily.
Cross platform >> can be used in any Linux or Windows operating system.
Keyboard shortcut facilities.
Finally it’s modern and cute when comparing to a ordinary text editor.
See some screenshots:
Install CutePad:
The EXE file for Windows and Linux installer (support Ubuntu, Fedora, Net Runner, Slitaz and others) are available in CutePad official download page.
If you’re comfortable with Linux command line, you can follow the steps below to install it:
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to download the Linux installer:
F-IRC, an irc client for terminals/command-line/console now is at version 1.31 which brings several improvements.
As you may know, F-IRC aims to be as user friendly as possible with easy navigation and keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation. The learning curve should be as shallow as possible.
The latest version F-IRC 1.31 brings below changes:
rewrites IRC protocol handling (much more stable)
Nicks can now be aligned in a column. You can now add a marker line to see where you left off (this is also automatic when changing channels)
An improved configuration editor
A tab-completion dictionary
Improved scroll-back window navigation. You can now invoke an external program/script when there’s a nick-hit
A “headlines” window has been added. You can now set custom highlight words
How to Install F-IRC in Ubuntu:
I’ve uploaded the latest builds to launchpad PPA, so we can easily install the client by running below commands one by one in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
vpnc-gui is a simple application written in gambas3, it allows us to manage Cisco VPN connections with a convenient graphical front-end in Ubuntu Linux.
With is simple GUI you can:
Create vpnc file conf
Delete vpnc file conf
View vpnc file conf
Connect/Disconnect to a vpn Cisco connection
vpnc-gui find the existing .conf file in /etc/vpnc and setup a list of connection. If you want to connect to a vpn you simply choose the connection in the menu and click the “Connect” button.
Screenshots:
This simple application is hosted on sourceforge.net. At the moment, there’s only .DEB package available for Ubuntu / Debian user.
