DAISY is an NISO Z39.86 standard for blind, visual impaired, print-disabled, and learning-disabled people. Here a some plugins and projects associated with the standard.
1. ODT 2 DAISY OpenOffice extension
Odt2daisy is an OpenOffice.org Writer extension, enabling to export in DAISY 3 format, including support of Mathematical content conforming to the MathML standard.
2. AnyDaisy Firefox extension
A Firefox extension which allows reading of DAISY books. This project is being developed by Benetech with fundingassistance from the Mozilla foundation.
3. Daisyplayer
A 2006 project which appears to be dormant, you can still check out the code and download a deb.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Android App Inventor for Ubuntu
Liam Green Hughes posted this excellent tutorial
Link to Google Android general Tutorial.
While you at it, take a look at what could have been -- Ubuntu MID i.e. Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device edition.
Link to Google Android general Tutorial.
While you at it, take a look at what could have been -- Ubuntu MID i.e. Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device edition.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Pidgin encryption
The Egyptian Revolution and events in the Middle East have brought home the necessity for secure communication. One of the biggest complaints from Egyptian activists was the government crackdown on Internet and interception of communication.
Here is a Pidgin plugin which allows for encrypted chats
It uses RSA encryption with keys up to 4096 bits, using the Mozilla NSS crypto library.
To compile make sure you have pidgin-dev installed. Then follow the instructions.
Or you can download a deb here.
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Here is a Pidgin plugin which allows for encrypted chats
It uses RSA encryption with keys up to 4096 bits, using the Mozilla NSS crypto library.
To compile make sure you have pidgin-dev installed. Then follow the instructions.
Or you can download a deb here.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
KEGS Apple II GS emulation on Ubuntu
Hop over to the kegs page on sourceforge.
Download the latest source
In my case it was kegs.0.91.tar.gz
tar xfz PATH/TO/kegs.0.91.tar.gz
$ cd kegs.0.91/src
$ rm vars
$ ln -s vars_x86linux vars
$ make
cd out of src
You should find the binary in your kegs folder. Hop over to Emaculation forums for some advice about getting hold of a ROM. Place this in your folder.
Since there is no longer a /dev/dsp node in Ubuntu 10:10, you will have to start kegs like this:
You can view the Kegs emulation inside a browser at VirtualApple and download some games, unfortunately there is no Linux ActiveGS plugin as yet, so you'll have to be content with looking at the Applesoft BASIC Interpreter in Javascript,
For more Apple IIGS Programmes try SheppyWare.
Converting disk images to 800kb you will need Apple Commander or Ciderpress.
Link to older SDL port of KEGS (who knows, somebody might just figure out how to create a GS Ubuntu session?)
Link to Dos33 an open source implementation of AppleDos. The page appears to be unavailable, but there is a link to some of the utilities here, all useful for Apple II disks, and Juiced GS, the last remaining Apple GS magazine
NOTE: I found that the kegs.0.86 was a lot faster for some reason. Don't know why, but it works like a bomb.
Press F4 for configuration and change the speed of the emulator.
Here is a link to x-amiga, an example of a good linux UAE distro, now if only there was a Kegs Linux.
Download the latest source
In my case it was kegs.0.91.tar.gz
tar xfz PATH/TO/kegs.0.91.tar.gz
$ cd kegs.0.91/src
$ rm vars
$ ln -s vars_x86linux vars
$ make
cd out of src
You should find the binary in your kegs folder. Hop over to Emaculation forums for some advice about getting hold of a ROM. Place this in your folder.
Since there is no longer a /dev/dsp node in Ubuntu 10:10, you will have to start kegs like this:
padsp ./xkegsYou can view the Kegs emulation inside a browser at VirtualApple and download some games, unfortunately there is no Linux ActiveGS plugin as yet, so you'll have to be content with looking at the Applesoft BASIC Interpreter in Javascript,
For more Apple IIGS Programmes try SheppyWare.
Converting disk images to 800kb you will need Apple Commander or Ciderpress.
Link to older SDL port of KEGS (who knows, somebody might just figure out how to create a GS Ubuntu session?)
Link to Dos33 an open source implementation of AppleDos. The page appears to be unavailable, but there is a link to some of the utilities here, all useful for Apple II disks, and Juiced GS, the last remaining Apple GS magazine
NOTE: I found that the kegs.0.86 was a lot faster for some reason. Don't know why, but it works like a bomb.
Press F4 for configuration and change the speed of the emulator.
Here is a link to x-amiga, an example of a good linux UAE distro, now if only there was a Kegs Linux.
Fuse v1.0.0 - The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator
Fuse is the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator. It supports several ZX Spectrum models, including 16K/48K/128K/+2/+2A/+3 and some Russian clones.
Alberto Garcia recently ported Fuse to the Maemo platform (used by the Nokia N800/N810 Internet Tablets).
He has also created Fuse packages for standard Debian/Ubuntu systems (x86/amd64 only). SDL and GTK+ versions are available. They have different user interfaces but are otherwise equivalent. If in doubt, choose the GTK+ version.
Downloads:
Alberto Garcia recently ported Fuse to the Maemo platform (used by the Nokia N800/N810 Internet Tablets).
He has also created Fuse packages for standard Debian/Ubuntu systems (x86/amd64 only). SDL and GTK+ versions are available. They have different user interfaces but are otherwise equivalent. If in doubt, choose the GTK+ version.
Downloads:
- Nokia N810 Internet Tablet:
- Debian/Ubuntu (x86):
- Required: install libspectrum.
- Required: install Fuse SDL or Fuse GTK+.
- Optional: install the Fuse utilities.
- Go here to get the source code and earlier versions.
- Debian/Ubuntu (amd64):
- Required: install libspectrum.
- Required: install Fuse SDL or Fuse GTK+.
- Optional: install the Fuse utilities.
- Go here to get the source code and earlier versions.
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