H5P is a really cool HTML 5 content creation platform that allows some really complex things to be done really easily. This is just an experiment with its Twitter feed content type, which took <10 seconds to do. You can learn more about H5P in this video.
All things free and open
I love GNU/Linux. I have used GNU/Linux since 1999 and exclusively since 2001. I have used Ubuntu since the first version, and I depend on GNU/Linux for everything I do on a computer, whether work or play. Importantly, I use it for 100% of the work I do, and 100% of […]
We need to improve the user experience of the GNU/Linux ...
This morning I was playing around in DarkTable, improving my skills at using its awesome capability. I used a photo of a Half-collared Kingfisher that was in deep shadow, and accidentally shot at ISO6400 because I had forgotten to change my settings from when i was taking eagles in flight in […]
Photographers – buy equipment not software
A few years ago (maybe 10 years), many of us in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement criticised the South African Government for the way in which it was going about its Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) initiative. Firstly, it looked as though it was flouting its own FOSS […]
Government’s Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS): another example of the ...
Quite a lot of the documentation that I write for work involves using icons as part of the images that I create. It is quite a pain having to open an icon in an application just to resize it, change its colour or make it transparent. I always say, if you […]
Nautilus plugins (Public Domain) for working with icons to enhance ...
People familiar with me know that I believe in sharing digital resources freely whenever this is possible. I do a lot of diagrams and presentations, and in the process of doing so I often create new elements for those diagrams. In this section of the blog, I make those elements […]
Free (public domain) LibreOffice Draw, LibreOffice Impress and PowerPoint pillar ...
People familiar with me know that I believe in sharing digital resources freely whenever this is possible. I do a lot of diagrams and presentations, and in the process of doing so, I often create new elements for those diagrams. In this section of the blog, I make those elements […]
Free (public domain) LibreOffice Draw, LibreOffice Impress and PowerPoint hexagon ...
This is the code I ran after installing Ubuntu 16.04 on my new laptop. I recommend just copying and pasting the bits you want to use, rather than trying to run it as a script. Yes, you can use GUI tools to do the same installs, but they take 10 […]
My Ubuntu 16.04 post install “script”
There are not a lot of videos on working with shapes in Libreoffice, and it took me a while to figure this out, so I thought I would share it back to the community since I have learned from watching videos contributed by others. It is also an excuse for […]
How to make circular arrows in LibreOffice Draw
Today I read a Science article entitled “In dramatic statement, European leaders call for ‘immediate’ open access to all scientific papers by 2020“. I would say that it is the beginning of a dream come true for those of us who have lobbied for free and open access to Science […]