Targeting Desktop Publishing Users
May 13, 2008
Linux supports Scribus which is an application aimed at desktop publishing users. It is an open-source page-layout program that can run on Windows and Mac OS X as well. It supports professional publishing features such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus is a very powerful software that helps users create great looking documents of all kinds with a little help from its own enthusiastic community that eagerly assists both beginners and professionals.
In spite the fact that there are other desktop publishing applications for Linux, Scribus has presented the most viable solution to such needs due to a friendlier user interface and more features. It has helped to advance the use of font typefaces and color management on Linux.
One Person’s Junk is Another Person’s Treasure
May 11, 2008
Book claiming to teach how to become invisible
One of my favorite online pastimes is not reading the latest news or catching up on the blogs I follow. It’s actually going on eBay and trying to find the weirdest and most interesting items I can find. I don’t necessarily look for weird stuff but it just so happens that the weirder the item the more interesting it is anyway. And believe me, on eBay it is not difficult to come up with some really strange stuff. Just today I came across someone selling a book that he claims will teach you to become invisible. No hoax according to him.
But if there’s something constructive I learned from my eBay pastime is that truly anything and everything can sell on eBay and there is always a buyer at the right price. Why is this important to know? Because all of us have so much junk around the house that we would be happy to get rid of and tend to think that no one in their right mind would want to buy it. Well, I can’t guarantee that you will find a buyer who is in his right mind but chances are you will find a buyer nonetheless. And with services like iSold It, it’s real easy too.
If you have seen the movie “40 Year Old Virgin” you should be familiar with the iSold It concept. It is similar to what Trish did in the movie. With iSold It you really have nothing to lose and putting your stuff online is as easy as dropping it off at one of their numerous locations across the country. Once you try it you will discover just how addictive it can be. Besides the extra bucks you can make, it’s also really fun to follow the interest your items receive. Be sure to send me a link of your listings, you may just make a sale…
Users exploring the possibilities of the Linux operating system are bound to come across Gedit which is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. It aims primarily for simplicity and ease of use but features a wide range of options including full support for internationalized text, configurable syntax highlighting for various languages, editing files from remote location, print and print preview support, clipboard support and a complete online user manual, among others.
Gedit also features a flexible plug-in system which can be used to dynamically add new and advanced features to itself. Released under the GNU General Public License, the Gedit has plug-ins that can be used to perform a variety of tasks related to text-editing from within the Gedit window.
May 6, 2008
Stylish Designs featured a post last month on the various database backup solutions when dealing with an Oracle Database. This comes up because many are used to working only with database agents in their backup process which can cause problems. Stylish Designs recommends VERITAS as an alternative when database agents aren’t enough and suggests combining the VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle with NetBackup for Oracle Advanced BLI Agent to achieve true block-level incremental backups of an Oracle database. The post goes in depth covering other options too and is well worth the read. You can find the full article titled Block Level Database backups using Database Editions here.
