Teamwork across Companies Badiner Bytes & Tech Tidbits: Create Animated GIFs with Google Photos They are everywhere...GIFs...those animated pictures we all love. They tell stories, make us laugh with jokes, and allow the sharing of multiple images in one frame. They are great to use in documents, slides, email, and social media but how can you easily make them? There are apps and tools that you can use, but there is also an easy way already built into your Google Account. Making basic GIFS is as easy 1, 2,3 using Google Photos. Follow the steps below and get GIFing! 1: Get Photos into Google Photos Use the Google Photos app on your mobile device to auto-upload device pictures: How To DocumentDrag your images from your computer directly to the screen. 2: Select Images in Google Photos Go to photos.google.com or use the Google Photos app and select the check mark in the top left corner of any image you want to be included in your GIF. You can choose between 2-50 images for any one GIF. 3: Create Animation Once your images are selected, click the “+” icon in the top right. Select Animation.
MindRaider - Personal Notebook and Outliner Piggydb Mou - Markdown editor for web developers, on Mac OS X Offprints » Blog Archive » Applescript and Notational Velocity In an earlier post, I explained how I use plain text files and Notational Velocity as a task-management alternative to the GTD program Things. Towards the end of that post, I also hinted that I have been able to automate parts of my system by using some Applescript and Automator tricks. Most of these tricks depend on using an apparently little-known feature of Notational Velocity, which is the ability to perform the "search" command on your notes using Applescript. As Notational Velocity users know, what makes the program unique is the fact that most of its functions begin in the "search" bar. If you want to create a note, you go to the search bar, begin typing the title of your new note, and click enter to create it. With the release of Version 2.0β4 at the beginning of 2011, however, it became possible to "search" for text strings in NV using Applescript. Nonetheless, this script has been useful in helping me to automate parts of my previously-described GTD system. An example workflow
FocusWriter - Gott Code About FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work. It’s available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, and has been translated into many different languages. Features: TXT, basic RTF, and basic ODT file supportTimers and alarmsDaily goalsFully customizable themesTypewriter sound effects (optional)Auto-save (optional)Live statistics (optional)Spell-checking (optional)Multi-document supportSessionsPortable mode (optional)Translated into over 20 languages Release Notes home of Dave and Blanca Gifford Who are the Giffords? We are career missionaries with Christian Reformed World Missions, serving in Mexico City. I (Dave) am an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church and work in the areas of leadership development and church development. I teach 4 courses per semester at the Seminario Teológico Reformado de México, and serve as the faculty librarian of the seminary. I also serve the Jesús el Salvador church by preaching, teaching and training leaders. And I serve the wider Spanish-speaking Christian community by helping organize training events for the Timothy Leadership Institute and by producing free Spanish web materials for Christians on the present website.
HelloThere MindRaider - Personal Notebook and Outliner Introduction MindRaider provides experimental version of URIQA browser. To try the browser, select Tools/Uriqa/Connect to Server... from the main menu. Specify connection parameters: Server URL Resource to load first. You may choose either that browsed resources' statements will be added to the existing RDF model or current resource model will replace the previous one during the browsing. Finally click Connect to load the resource model from the URIQA server. Browsing You may browse statements of the loaded model as usually. As usually you may specify the way in which is RDF model rendered (facet, show/hide predicate nodes, labels vs URIs, etc.) from the View menu: You may also search loaded model using label search:
textroom - Open Source Cross Platform Full Screen Rich Text Editor For Writers TextRoom is a room of your own. Read GPLv3 It is a free (as in freedom and free beer) full screen text editor developed with especially writers in mind. TextRoom and all other similar editors share one goal: to get you writing right away by providing distraction free environment to your liking, as well as familiar set of keyboard shortcuts to control its behavior. Works on Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora and other Linux distributions. If you are on a system with only Qt, you can try Silent Version. Press F1 to see a list of commands in TextRoom. Version 0.8.2 Export your documents to Google Docs MiniFlo mindmapper based on Flo by Ian Reinhart Geiser. Note about MusicRoom: It uses SDL_mixer to play ogg files. Note: Silent version doesn't include typing sounds and spell check. To run the Linux portable or to install from a Linux Package or Installer you will need the following installed: Qt4.7(or later) Qt4.7 opengl, svg and xml libraries. From Linux Source: tar -xzvf . cd . textroom 1. 2. install getlibs: