Paragraph: the competition among launcher'ov, selective colorization of photos fast, OpenStreetMap in GNOME and the announcement of KRP

kupfer. - A tool to run and manage. By running the program refers to a fast start for the team ( sort of fancy Alt F2), and employed to control variegated plugins. With them, you will have access to browser bookmarks, contacts of IM, search, twitter, etc. n. Kupfer is not the first member of launcher'ov on my computer.
I am using for this purpose gnome-do, do not reshuffle took place only for aesthetic reasons. With the launch of both tools to cope equally well, and add-on work in different ways. For example, a plugin to interact with Rhythmbox'om in Do less work. First, if your music collection from different artists have albums with similar names, probably, that appear in the gnome-do will be only one of them. In my case it was the album with the title ' Acoustics '. Secondly, gnome-do, in contrast to his python- brother, refused to show album covers. The second point, perhaps took root only for me, as the official screen shots to the contrary. The main drawback kupfer lies on the surface, visually it looks weaker than the older brother.

tintii. - Tiny program for selective colorization (. Selective color. ). Curiously, the version for Windows and MacOS are distributed in the form of paid plug- in for Photoshop. A version of linux- free (GPLv2) and self-sufficient, t. e. requires no additional software. Use tintii outrageously simple: upload a photo, select the required color on miniatures, export results. It is necessary to make a reservation, not necessarily the result is perfect, I had to fade a couple of artifacts in gimp. In the eye catches only negative - the images are always located overlooking. Below is an example of handling literally ' two clicks ':.

Emerillon. - A map viewer. OpenStreetMap. On some functions so far, recently released version of the release of 0. 1 ( for users of Ubuntu Karmic have. PPA. ). If the emerillon ' tie ' the possibility of geo-referencing images, GNOME will get the missing component for the F-Spot. The picture, of course, edited. The explanations below.

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