Sunday, September 13, 2009

Sweet Home 3D: Perisian Home Interior Design Percuma Untuk Linux

Terdapat banyak perisian rekabentuk dalaman di pasaran seperti SmartDraw, MyVirtualHome dan banyak lagi. Kebanyakannya adalah perisian berbayar dan bukan perisian percuma atau sumber terbuka dan tidak menyokong Linux.

Kini, pengguna Linux tidak perlu bimbang lagi masalah tersebut kerana perisian Sweet Home 3D merupakan perisian alternatif kepada perisian rekabentuk dalaman untuk Linux, Windows dan Mac OS (multi platform). Anda tidak perlu bayar sesen pun untuk mereka bentuk rumah idaman anda. Ianya mudah digunakankan dan mesra pengguna. Apa yang anda perlu ada ialah hanya pemikiran yang "kreatif" dan rajin.

Dengan hanya melukis pelan lantai dan meletakkan kelengkapan kedalam plan 2D, perisian ini secara automaik menhasilkan preview 3D. Anda boleh memilih 77 jenis kelengkapan rumah yang disediakan secara default dalam perisian ini.
Kelengkapan ini termasuklah untuk bilik mandi, bilik tidur, pintu dan tingkap, dapur, ruang tamu, dan lain-lain. Namun begitu, anda boleh menambah kelengkapan tambahan ke dalam Sweet Home 3D. Untuk memuat turun kelengkapan tambahan anda boleh layari di laman Sweet Home 3D: 3D model import.

Aplikasi Sweet Home 3D diabahagikan kepada 4 panel. Panel pertama memaparkan senarai objek-objek yang dibahagikan kepada beberapa kategori iaitu: Bathroom, Bedroom, Doors and windows, Kitchen and Living Room. Ini memudahkan anda memilih objek perabot/kelengkapan. Panel ber-grid pula membenarkan anda menetapkan posisi perabot atau kelengkapan dalam bilik dan membenarkan anda untuk mengubahsuai dimensi, membina dinding dan mengahpus objek.


Panel bawah kiri, adalah untuk anda melihat senarai terperinci objek-objek yang anda tambah kedalam rumah anda. Anda boleh mengubah Nama objek, Lebar, Dalam, Tinggi, Sudut, Warna, Dimensi dan sebagainya. Panel preview 3D pula membolehkan anda melihat gambaran sebenar rekabentuk dalaman rumah anda dalam bentuk 3D. Panel ini membolehkan anda melihat hasil kerja anda dari semua sudut.

Ciri yang paling penting Sweet Home 3D ialah kebolehannya mengimport objek 3D pelbagai jenis format seperti OBJ, LWS dan 3DS. Anda juga boleh mengeksport hasil kerja anda ke dalam format PDF dan ini memudahkan anda melihat hasil kerja dan berkongsi dengan kawan-kawan anda. Dan apa yang paling penting sekali ialah ianya PERCUMA dan OPEN SOURCE!!

*Klik sini untuk memuat turun Sweet Home 3D. (pakej .deb)




Thursday, September 3, 2009

Opera 10 with Turbo sedia untuk didownload

Pelayar Opera antara pelayar Internet percuma kegemaran saya. Opera mempunyai ciri-ciri mesra pengguna dan ianya laju walaupun Internet perlahan. Setiap kali saya memuat turun movie atau perisian dari laman web yang tidak membenarkan menggunakan multi-download (menggunakan download manager) , saya menggunakan Opera sebagai alternatif, ini kerana proses memuat turunnya agak laju juga. Kini Opera 10 "Turbo" telah dilepaskan. Pada jangkaan saya ianya pasti lebih laju dan mempunyai ciri-ciri yang lebih menarik. Apa yang lebih menarik tentang Opera ialah ianya menyokong berbilang platform (OS). Dan Opera menjadi pelayar alternatif saya ketika menggunakan Ubuntu selain pelayar Mozilla Firefox.

Antara ciri-ciri baru Opera 10 ialah:

Speed Dial your way [New]
You asked for it! Customize your Speed Dial to fit your own needs. Click the Configure Speed Dial button and choose from 4 to 25 favorite Web sites for quick access every time you open a new tab. You can also add a custom background so that you feel right at home.

New visual tabs and sleek design [New]
Opera has always been the pioneer for how to deal with tabs in your browser. In Opera 10, we introduce a resizable tab bar. Drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your open Web pages. And, because great features should come in beautiful packages, designer Jon Hicks has created a whole new look for Opera 10.

Speed Dial your way [Updated]
You asked for it! Customize your Speed Dial to fit your own needs. Click the Configure Speed Dial button and choose from 4 to 25 favorite Web sites for quick access every time you open a new tab. You can also add a custom background so that you feel right at home.

Web integration [New]
If you use a Web mail service as your default mail client, you can tell Opera 10 to do the same. Clicking on e-mail addresses or “Send by Mail” in Opera will open the compose page from your Web mail service provider. The same is true with the Feed reader — you can now also add any RSS/atom feed into your favorite online feed reader from within Opera 10.

Resizable search field [Updated]
Have a clearer view of what you are about to search by simply expanding the size of the search field — because many of life’s questions require more than two words of space.

40% faster engine and cutting-edge Web standards support [Updated]
We optimized the new Opera Presto 2.2 engine in Opera 10 to be much faster on resource-intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook. In addition, with an Acid3 100/100 score, Web Fonts support, RGBA/HSLA color and SVG improvements, Opera 10 is ready for the next generation of Web applications.

Inline spell checker

Write freely in your Facebook wall, blog, or Web mail. Opera 10 underlines any misspelled words, so you can express yourself without reservation. By using the popular Hunspell dictionary format, you will always have the most complete and updated list of all languages.

Auto-update

Opera 10 makes it easier than ever to stay up-to-date with the latest version. With auto-update you can choose to have completely automatic updates or to be notified when an update is ready for you install. As always with Opera, it is your choice.

E-mail your way

Opera Mail can now send rich text messages including inline images, styled text, links, and/or custom HTML. You can also choose to have messages deleted from your POP server after a preset number of days, so you can keep your Web space under control.

Automated Crash Reporting
Opera is designed to restart and recover all your tabs if a crash occurs. But now you can easily send us a crash report to help us continue to make Opera the most stable browser around.

Opera Dragonfly evolved

Our Web developer tools are now even better, allowing you to edit the DOM and inspect HTTP headers.

* Klik sini untuk memuat turun Opera 10

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

To all those who are non-techie like Mr Singh

Dear Mr. Bill Gates,

We have bought a computer for our home and we have found some
problems, which I want to bring to your notice.

1. There is a button 'Start' but there is no 'Stop' button. We request
you to check this.

2. One doubt is whether any 'Re-scooter' is available in system? I
find only 'Re-cycle', but I own a scooter at my home.

3. There is 'Find' button but it is not working properly. My wife lost
the door key and we tried a lot trace the key with this 'find' button,
but was unable to trace. Please rectify this problem.

4. My child learn 'Microsoft Word' now he wants to learn 'Microsoft
sentence', so when you will provide that?

5. I bought computer, CPU, mouse and keyboard, but there is only one
icon which shows 'My Computer': when you will provide the remaining
items?

6.. It is surprising that windows says 'MY Pictures' but there is not
even a single photo of mine. So when will you keep my photo in that.

7. There is 'MICROSOFT OFFICE' what about 'MICROSOFT HOME' since I use
the PC at home only.

8. You provided 'My Recent Documents'. When you will provide 'My Past
Documents'?

9. You provide 'My Network Places'. For God sake please do not provide
'My Secret Places'. I do not want to let my wife know where I go after
my office hours.

Regards,
Blasah Singh


P.S.
Last one to Mr. Bill Gates: Sir, how is it that your name is GATES but
you are selling WINDOWS?

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Installing Software on Ubuntu - Part 4 (Terminal)

Using terminal command line is the efficient way to install software on Ubuntu. The command line we will use is 'apt-get'. The command-line format of the apt-get command is:
sudo apt-get command

We precede the command with sudo because all software management requires root (administrator) powers. It’s always advisable to get the most up to date list from the software repositories. To do that, type the following command:
sudo apt-get update

To install software we will use the following command (eg: Abiword word processor) :
sudo apt-get install software_name

sudo apt-get install abiword


If any dependencies are required, apt-get lists them and asks whether you want to install them as well.
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The apt-get Commands
update
Retrieve package updates for the currently installed packages

upgrade
Install the newest versions available of the currently installed packages

dselect-upgrade
Alter the status field of the specified packages to the specified state

dist-upgrade
Upgrade to the newest Ubuntu distribution

install
Install one or more packages specified on the command line

remove
Remove one or more packages specified on the command line

purge
Remove packages and related files

source
Install source-code files for the packages specified on the command line

build-dep
Install or remove packages to satisfy the dependencies for a specific package

check
Update package cache and check for broken package dependencies

clean
Clear the local cache copies of all installed package files

autoclean
Automatically clear the local cache copies of package files that are no longer supported in the repositories

autoremove
Remove packages that were installed as dependencies and no longer needed