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Quick review: Single file online photo galleries

August 22, 2010 in Internet, Photos | 4 comments

I wanted to write a quick review of photo gallery software that need only one file in the image folder. It means they’re extremely easy to install, maintain and move to other places. However I was only able to find two of those so I added a small list of non-database-galleries for you to check.

Both of these are written in PHP and create thumbnails automatically in a sub-folder.

uAlbum

Homepage
Sample gallery
Version & date: 1.43, 2007-02-23 (!!)
Licence: LGPL Open Source license
File Size: 31K
EXIF support: No
EXIF orientation support: No
Valid HTML: Passed, 1 warning
Support for subgalleries: Yes
Other: Slideshow, Fullscreen mode, preloading of images
Comments: Old but simple & open source.

Single File PHP Gallery

Homepage
Sample gallery
Version & date: 4.10, 2010-07-21
Licence: Free for private non commercial use
File Size: 54K
EXIF support: Yes
EXIF orientation support: No
Valid HTML: 49 Errors
Support for subgalleries: Yes
Other: Watermarking, direct links, description
Comments: Great features but slow

Simple galleries

As it became clear, it isn’t very easy to find single file photo galleries. So to help you forward, here’s a list of some simple gallery software that doesn’t require databases.

My choice

I think I’ll be using uAlbum or SFPG the most. For something a bit more advanced I might go for PHPGraphy. Any recommendations?

Tags: Internet, photo, planet-fnoss, planet-vapaasuomi, review, software

GPS (+Heart Rate) trackers for Linux

August 11, 2010 in *buntu, Biking, Open source | 3 comments

I’ve been recently playing with GPS devices on Linux (for example i-gotU gt-120, and the linux software to download tracks). I’ve also been discussing gps+heart rate data storage options. The obvious choice is (ex-Nokia) Sports Tracker and it didn’t even cross my mind that you could do something like this with local Linux software.

But it’s useless to ever think like that – you’re surprised with the variety of apps that are available and developed for Linux.
I bumped to this blog post on Planet KDE: Sports Activity Tracking App: The Baby Needs a Name.

And it looks awesome.

Reading the comments I found some other apps that do more or less the same, and Google gave me even more. So here’s just a quick list of GPS / HRM apps you might want to have a look if they’d be useful for you:

Then Unnamed / Kardio / Kilometer / …
Sportstracker
Polarview
Sonicread
Polarscope
Pytrainer
Viking
Marble
FoxtrotGPS
OpenDMTP
GPX viewer
GPSBabel
QLandkarte M/GT
OpenGTS
and the list goes on….So far I’ve been using GPSBabel to convert and Viking to analyze and clean the data, but now I might find some new neat tools… I don’t have a HRM, only GPS (Openmoko Freerunner), so I’d like an app to be able to visualize the track on (OpenStreet)Map like Viking does, but then maybe also somehow store the tracks. It’s a pain to have hundreds of GPX files in folders, some kind of tool to search would be neat. Maybe KPhotoalbum will some day be extended to manage any data, not just photos and videos :)A great place to discuss free GPS software is the FOSS-GPS mailing list, you’re welcome to join!
Do you have any experience on some of these apps? What features they miss? What’s the coolest thing they can do?

Tags: gps, linux, opensource, openstreetmap, planet-fnoss, planet-openmoko, planet-ubuntu, planet-vapaasuomi, review, software

Ubuntu Finland & community effort

May 3, 2010 in *buntu, Open source, Sosiaalinen media | 1 comment

Happened last Wednesday, the day before the release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS at Ubuntu-fi teams IRC channel (#ubuntu-fi-tiimit @ Freenode).

Someone organizing the Ubuntufest release party at Tampere, Finland on 5th of May (Akademy 2010 will also be there this summer!) asked if we’re planning to write a press release of the new Ubuntu release. Well.. it was on our TODO list but it really didn’t look like anyone would have the resources to write one like we’ve done earlier.

So I decided to run a small test on the community – would it be possible to create a press release without making it a pain to anyone. I opened an Etherpad, copied the original English press release there and annouced it on the same #ubuntu-fi-tiimit IRC channel requesting people to join to translate it.

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Tags: community, Internet, planet-fnoss, planet-openmoko, planet-ubuntu, planet-vapaasuomi, software, ubuntu

FoxtrotGPS – we can dance if we want to!

April 18, 2010 in Open source | 4 comments

The news are out now – tangoGPS has been forked.

tangogps is an easy to use, fast and lightweight mapping application for use with or without GPS. (tangoGPS web site)

FoxtrotGPS is an offshoot of Marcus Bauer’s excellent tangoGPS application, with a focus on cooperation and fostering community innovation. (FoxtrotGPS web site)

And it’s all GPL’d (read: ‘free & libre open source software’). Read the full announcement on FOSS-GPS mailing list.

Nothing much to add to that. Now go & check http://www.foxtrotgps.org/, subscribe to the FOSS-GPS mailing list, join the #foxtrotgps IRC channel and let your ideas, contributions and wishes flow! I’d expect the first release to be out soonish so have your Ubuntus, Freerunners and eeePCs ready!