links for 2008-02-12
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What! Jamaican chip-tune net releases all cc licensed! This is the best stuff I’ve heard in a while…good running or going insane music!
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Totally agree with Nathan…presentation software is totally lacking in FLOSS!!! We have brought this up much in Inkscape-land…even came up with the idea of having a program called Inkpresent that used Inkscape core to build an awesome presentation soft
Using Inkscape as a backend for a slideware presentation front end would be a good idea. Though if you’re on a Windows box, you could use Inkscape to generate slides, save them as JPEGs or PNGs and then use IrfanView (freeware, but not FLOSS) for the display. Great fullscreen graphics viewer with slideshow features.
Comment by Greg Bulmash — February 11, 2008 @ 10:45 pm
This is true…but I’m thinking as well about sorting of slides (usually done last minute), transitions with nice keynote-like effects, and more…Inkscape has the lovely graphics-side covered, but the animations, transitions, etc…not there yet…
Comment by jon — February 12, 2008 @ 3:31 am
[...] Nathan got me thinking about the whole lack of a killer presentation app in Open Source. I used to use purely Inkscape’s viewing app, Inkview for all my presentation needs, but that [...]
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