http://hitchedhiker.com Photography | Travel | Technology Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:26:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After my first trials with fake tilt shifting with tiltshiftmaker.com and GIMP, and the second post with my Toronto trip pictures miniaturized, this is the third set of images that have qualified to be miniaturized via fake tilt shift effect. http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/06/27/tilt-shifted-fake-miniatures/ Granular has been my first successful tryst with KDE and E17. I have never been a fan of KDE and really didn't like it this time either. Enlightenment is a different story altogether. It is slick and light and just so different that you actually feel that you are using ... http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/06/27/granular-linux/ Granular Linux has caught my fancy now. I have been looking for a distro with Enlightenment as a desktop option primarily because it looks so much cooler than KDE or Gnome. Also, because its the DE thats most unlike Windows or Mac. I hope I can get Granular to work ... http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/06/02/granular-linux-aside/ My Moo Cards arrived a week or so ago. Took their own sweet time getting here, almost 4 weeks. Standard international post. They were quite nice to see and I felt that it wasn't a waste. I could have chosen better images, a fact that was also pointed out to ... http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/05/31/moo-cards/ I downloaded 3 flavours of Linux a couple of days ago. I was looking for revamping my Linux box to look as cool as possible, and I was also looking to upgrade my current Mint 6 distribution to Mint 7, as I had only heard good things about it. I ... http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/05/31/linux-mint-7-gloria/ Good OS's gOS 3.1 is based on Ubuntu and uses Gnome as the primary desktop. Their main claim to fame is the liberal use of Google Gadgets in their distribution. They also claim to be the most easy to use distro out there. However, this may be a bit of ... http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/05/31/gos/ Elive was the distribution I was most looking forward to using for many reasons. The screen-shots and video on their website looked awesome. The distro uses Enlightenment 17 (E17) as it main desktop. Did I mention that it looked really awesome! I didn't even mind that you had to make ... http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/05/31/disappointing-elive/ I have been a regular user of various distributions of Linux over the last 3 or so years and on and off before that too. Having started with Linux more from a novelty point of view, I very soon realized that I could actually get my work done pretty easily ... http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/05/29/best-looking-linux-distro/ Linux Mint 7 (Gloria) is out. I have yet to try it out as mintUpdate seems to think that my system is up to date. The forums are abuzz with people who seem to be having the same issue. I think that upgrade method from Felicia to Gloria is not ... http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/05/28/linux-mint-7/