Ack! I meant to write another links post two weeks ago! I hate when things get so busy that I can’t blog for two weeks.

• Ante Karamatić: Is this for real? Ante found some interesting screenies in his sister’s high school IT textbook. They teach IT in high school? Damn, have things changed that much since I graduated in ‘78?
• Jordi Mas: gbrainy 1.30. Once again the leading (?) open source smartness app gets an update, now bringing the ability to track your personal records, nine new verbal analogies and a new logic puzzle, as well as an improved scoring algorithm to the mix, as well as better multiplatform support.
• Elizabeth Krumbach: New Leader for the Ubuntu Women Project. I’ve been meaning to congratulate Amber Graner for being named as the leader of the Ubuntu Women Project for about ten days but I kept letting time slip away without blogging it. (I’m surprised that Nanci didn’t post about this, although I know she’s been about as busy as I’ve been so far this decade.) I’ve linked to some of her posts in the past and I’m glad to see that her work as a woman using Ubuntu has opened up this great opportunity for her. The project can only get better, and I don’t think there could be a better woman to lead the project. Amber has also written a post about her new position that you should take the time to read.
• Paul Cutler: Debunking GNOME 3.0 Myths. As news comes out about the upcoming GNOME 3 there are some things that GNOME 3 is supposed to bring that aren’t quite accurate. Paul gives us a great site to bookmark so we have quick access for when we hear something about GNOME 3 that seems almost too good to be true. Or even just a bit far-fetched. Shane Fagan also has an informative post about GNOME 3 and the shell and panel support, two subjects that are finding some confusion in the user community.
• David “Lefty” Schlesinger: Browser Discipline. Lefty has noticed that sometimes he has “a bazillion tabs” open in his browser. He found a nice solution that you may find helpful as well.
• Martin Owens: Ubunchu Chapter 04: Licensing. That’s right, all you manga lovers, there’s a new chapter in the ongoing story of Ubunchu, the world’s first Ubuntu manga written in English. They don’t have a left to-right copy of the newest issue for some reason, but don’t let that stop you from getting up to date on their adventures.
• Alan Pope: MiserWare Beta for Windows as well as Linux. You may have heard about this very nice software title for helping you save money on your electric bills, especially since it was initially a Linux-only app. It’s now available for Windows users, so if this app sounds like something you may be interested in and have a Windows box you should definitely check it out.
• Dustin Kirkland: LCA2010: Day 2, Wellington, New Zealand. While attending an open source software conference in New Zealand Dustin was able to sit in on a presentation that revealed the juicy little tidbit that Avatar, the latest blockbuster that has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing motion picture ever, used Ubuntu to render their digital effects and graphics. Yes, when I saw this news the geek in me definitely went squeee! Big thanks to Algot Runeman from the Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo for bringing this news to my attention.
• Danny Piccirillo: Download Disobedience, pro-piracy campaign. I meant to pass this along last week because it’s a campaign aimed not at trying to get legal approval for theft of copyrighted materials but to raise awareness about the massive amount of misinformation that’s out there in the name of protecting intellectual property. He also has a nice vid protesting the heavy handed protection of the copyright of that old chestnut “Happy Birthday”.  Yes, it’s illegal to sing that without paying royalties, something Dan Rydell got slapped for doing. (Extra points to Danny for allowing me to include a link to one of my favorite shows. )
• Martin Owens: Generating Calendars. Picture this scenario: You want a hard copy of your calendar for the month but you want to have your birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates so you can let others consult it. And it can’t look like crap. Martin has info on a nice little app that can do just that, and he’s even been kind enough to share the 2010 calendar he made, but without his personal info. While it’s a bit late for helping you make personalized Chrismukkuh gifts you never know when you may find yourself needing just this kind of program.

Before I close this post I want to pass along some great news to people who want to use the Chromium browser but have heard that there are some annoying bugs that mat be keeping you from using it more often. Issue 24210 – Cannot drag a bookmark into desktop has finally been resolved (at least in the daily builds) so when you find a site you want to return to you can finally drag a bookmark to your desktop where you can remember that you want to revisit the page. In addition, Issue 2238 – Add search engine dialog doesn’t allow “{” (open curly brace) has also been resolved so you can use all those great bookmarklets you used in other browsers. There’s also a great extension for Google Chrome called Chromy that makes it easy to manage your bookmarklets, although it may not be as easy to use as it’s predecessor, Bookmarklets Manager. I just installed Chromy though so I may simply need to play with it a bit longer.

If you’ve begged for forward slash searching it hasn’t been added to Chrome or Chromium, but there’s an extension called Type-ahead-find that brings this function to Chrome although it’s not as easy as the behavior built into Firefox.

Of course I can’t close without extending my congratulations to the New Orleans Saints for winning the NFC Championship game on Sunday. I’m still amazed that they made it this far, especially after all the times they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the past. That gives the Crescent City even more to celebrate, especially with Mardi Gras Day 2010 about 20 days away.

I’ll try to get another post up in a few days, especially since I still have 18 items flagged for blogging. I do know that I may be offline for a day or three next week when I get my new SATA controller card and finally get my 160 GB hard drive installed. It will take some extra time because I’ll be doing a fresh Ubuntu install and creating a fresh user account, so I’ll also need to see about migrating some of my user data to the new account.

Pour l’install-party Ubuntu et logiciels libres organisée par le collectif Giroll, nous avons eu l’occasion de participer à la webradio Giroll sur le monde du libre.

Nous avons présenté quelques logiciels utiles dans le domaine de l’éducation et de la remédiation cognitive dont voici la modeste chronique :

Apprendre en s’amusant avec les logiciels libres :

• ANKI

ANKI est un logiciel d’auto-apprentissage. Il propose la création d’un “desk”, un jeu de cartes où l’on configure le recto et le verso, soit de façon à poser une question et à afficher une réponse, soit de façon un présenter un mot dans une langue pour ensuite voir apparaître sa traduction. En fonction de la difficulté que va éprouver l’utilisateur pour se rappeler la réponse ou l’item à mémoriser, celui-ci va pouvoir sélectionner un niveau de facilité/difficulté qui lui proposer des temps différents pour la présentation à nouveau de la carte (de l’item à mémoriser) temps long pour les items faciles et temps court pour les items difficiles. A l’origine ANKI a été développé notamment pour l’apprentissage des Kanji en japonais et des idéogrammes en Chinois. En effet “ANKI” signifie mémorisation en japonais. Depuis, la communauté des utilisateurs d’ANKI a développé des desk pour quasi toutes les langues ou pour des utilisations plus ludiques comme par exemple retenir les principales commandes sous Unix.

C’est un logiciel qui offre d’énormes possibilités notamment pour les professionnels de l’enseignement, les professionnels de la remédiation cognitive comme les psychologues, les orthophonistes, etc. On peut ainsi développer des jeux d’entraînement pour la dénomination d’images à destination de personnes présentant une démence type Alzheimer, des jeux pour apprendre la grammaire et reconnaître la nature et les fonctions des mots, etc.

Pour finir ANKI propose une fonction de synchronisation qui permet d’accéder à distance à ses desks.

Anki existe pour linux, windows et mac OSX.

http://ichi2.net/anki/

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/anki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki

• GBRAINY

Testez votre ingéniosité avec ces amusants jeux de logique, de mémoire et de calcul mental. L’interface est très simple, et vous pouvez jouer en même temps avec les trois types de jeux ou ne tester que l’un d’entre eux. Il est tout autant indiqué pour les enfants que pour les adultes qui désirent améliorer leur mémoire, leurs capacités arithmétiques et leurs compétences de logique.

Ne vous sentez pas obliger d’acheter une console de jeux onéreuse pour disposer d’un programme d’entraînement cérébral.

Existe sur Linux et windows

http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy

http://gbrainy.softonic.fr/

• KLAVARO

Logiciel pour apprendre la dactylographie. Simple, pratique mais efficace.

Facile à utiliser, ce logiciel permet soit d’utiliser les modèles standards de claviers, soit de définir son propre clavier.

A la fin de chaque session, l’utilisateur a la possibilité de constater les progrès réalisés, via un graphique de rapidité (en nombre de mots à la minute) et de justesse (pourcentage de frappes correctes).

Existe sous Linux, windows

http://klavaro.sourceforge.net/

http://www.framasoft.net/article4438.html

Rendez-vous le jeudi 10 décembre 2009 de 18h30 à 20h30 à l’ECM Saint Pierre de Bordeaux pour un atelier Girollien Orthophonie et Logiciels Libres

That’s right, I’m finally getting another links post written. I’m sorry it took so long. I’ve been trying to run down some bugs, and when I haven’t been on bug hunts things have been simply crazy here in Boston.

I’ve got a couple of things from early this month, but I ended up dropping some of the article I noticed last month because they’re just to old to post. I promise to try to do better and do what I can to get at least a post on every week.

• Alan Pope: A Question of Perspective. There are definitely some complaints about Ubuntu 9.10, and not just the things I wrote about last month. One user even calls the new release a “total fail.” That’s overly harsh IMO, and Alan reminds us of some very important facts about the upgrade.
• Jordi Mas: gbrainy 1.20. Back in June I mentioned this great open source version of those brain training games you see advertised for the Nintendo DS. There’s a new version out and it’s even better than it was before with six new games. It’s available in most major GNU/Linux distros (although it may not be up to date), and there’s even a version for running on Windows. Sorry, Mac users, you need to run an emulator to enjoy it, but at least you don’t need a DS any more to have fun while training your gray matter.
• Martin Pitt: My desktop backup solution. Backing up your system regularly is important, as we all know. Martin didn’t like any of the packaged backup solutions so he came up with his own. He walks us through it, and it’s so simple even my technologically-challenged (late-)wife could have used it.
• Vincent Untz: GNOME 3.0 in September 2010. Vincent has the announcement for the new version of GNOME, as well as what it means for users of GNOME 2.30. Andre Klapper has some links to more info.
• Panji Nushantara: How To Change Windows Key Logo to Ubuntu for Free. It may be a minor detail, but why do GNU/Linux users have to use keyboards with logos for that closed-source OS from Redmond? We don’t have to any longer, thanks to System76.
• Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Testing Team. Think that testing software is a piece of cake? Think it’s too hard? Ara has news for you either way, and yes, even you can help test the next version of Ubuntu.
• Martin Owens, Karmic Art, What the Paintbrush is Saying. Martin has found some great Ubuntu-themed artwork on deviantArt. Check them out, and if you have any you’ve created why not share them as well?
• Risto H. Kurppa: Smile – a great photo show software for Linux. Not only is it easy to use, it gives some damned nice results.
• Miguel de Icaza: The future of Moonlight. Miguel has some updates for us, although it isn’t a software update just yet. If you think you even might want to enjoy Silverlight content Miguel has some good news for you.
• Aurélien Jarno: Thought of the day. It’s a short post, but if you want to see a new feature in a software app you should take the time to read it.
• Colin Watson: Tissue of lies. Some knucklehead has posted that there will be a service pack for Ubuntu 9.10 in this coming spring. (Ubuntu releases new versions every six months, not service packs.) I’m passing it along, not to give the asshat more “ink” but to make sure our readers know it’s just a bunch of malarkey.

That’s it for today. Before I go I want to congratulate Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp and second baseman Orlando “O-Dawg” Hudson on winning Gold Glove Awards this week. Congrats also go out to outfielders Kemp and Andre Ethier for receiving Silver Slugger Awards this week. I have to wonder if Juan Pierre would be getting honored if only Manny hadn’t been the team’s primary right fielder this year. There are still some awards to be handed out this week so hopefully we’ll have more good news for Chavez Ravine before the month is out.

တခါတေလ ကိုယ္႔ဦးေႏွာက္သံုးလို႔မရေတာ႔ဘူး၊ ျဖတ္ထိုးဥာဏ္ေတြမရွိေတာ႔ဘူး၊ မွတ္ဥာဏ္ေတြ မေကာင္းေတာ႔ဘူးလို႔ ကိုယ္႔ကိုကိုယ္ေတြးမိဖူးလား? က်ေနာ္ေတာ႔ တခါတေလ အဲလိုေလး ေတြးမိတက္တယ္။ ဓါးမ်ားလိုေပါ႔ မေသြးပဲထား တံုးတက္တယ္ေျပာၾကသလို ဦးေႏွာက္ကိုလည္း ထက္ျမတ္ေအာင္ ေသြးေပးဖို႔လိုမယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။ ( အဟဲ စာေရးဆရာေလသံနဲ႔ ) ဥာဏ္ရည္ဥာဏ္ေသြးထက္ျမတ္ဖို႔အတြက္ ေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ပါးပါး ကစားၾကရေအာင္လား သူငယ္ခ်င္းတို႔။ ဒီ gbrainy software ကို Linux Platform မွာေရာ Windows Platform မွာပါ install လုပ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ Windows အတြက္ကိုေတာ႔ ထံုးစံ အတိုင္း sourceforge.net မွာ ရယူႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

gbrainy

gBrainy,contiene diferentes tipos de juegos para ejercitar la mente–> puzzles lógicos, juegos de cálculo mental y juegos de memoria.gBrainy lo encontraràs en los repos.Enjoy!

Últimamente mis ratos libres los he dedicado a jugar gBrainy, una interesante aplicación repleta de retos mentales ya sea de lógica o matemáticos, unos definitivamente me han dejado perplejo, sin ninguna pista ni idea de cómo hacerle para resolverlos. Afortunadamente si fallas resolviendo el ejercicio, al final te coloca la respuesta correcta y cuál era la lógica que encerraba ese acertijo.

Desde memorizar números o figuras, identificar el siguiente número de una serie numérica o encontrar sentido entre figuras y letras, gBrainy te garantiza unos buenos minutos de “despierte” cerebral o noches de darle vueltas a la solución de un acertijo, ya si te clavas mucho.

Disponible para entornos basados en Linux y Windows (pa’ que no digan), en Ubuntu te lo puedes bajar desde la Terminal:

sudo apt-get install gbrainy

Y listo, a jugar .

¿Alguna idea?.

Vía getdeb ya está disponible esta versión del estupendo ejercitador mental libre.

Si quieres instalárlo en tu Ubuntu puedes ir a este hilo: Instalar Gbrainy en Ubuntu

Acaba de salir en getdeb gbrainy, el brain trainer para nuestro Ubuntu, procederemos a instalarlo
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Y le añadimos la línea
deb http://ubuntu.org.ua/ getdeb/
A continuación guardamos el gedit, cerramos y procedemos a instalar
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install gbrainy

A desarrollar nuestro potencial!!!!!!

—————-Actualización 16-10-2007—————

Se ha introducido en getdeb en nuevo gbrainy 0.3, pero en mi Feisty no funciona mientras que en nuevo Gusty sí, así que si queremos la nueva varsión toca actualizar ya.

—————-Actualización 21-11-2007—————

Ya va por la versión 0.41 en getdeb