Kino reaches version 1.0

Kino is a very good non-linear video editor for Linux. I've used it already with very good results.

With 1.0 Kino development switches to "maintainance mode", that means no new features will be added for some time.

The linked article mentions another very interesting non-linear video editor project called kdenlive. From the screenshots it seems a very strong software with a classic interface, featuring a multitrack video and audio mixer.

(The Only) Ten Things To Know About CSS

What CSS is and how to use it at its best.

(from dzone.com)

Curses Programming with Python

How-to beginners guide for using curses in Python.

(from dzone.com)

There's also a link to a message in the Python mailing list that explains how to properly use the curses.wrapper module.

La Maschera di Cera

Italian progressive rock band, active today. It should be interesting.

A few mp3 samples are available here.

ProgArchives has something too.

(from a comment to this last.fm journal. Thanks Joeteren!)

Komodo Edit

A free cross-platform, developer-oriented text editor with many useful features.

(from dzone.com, linking to this blog article)

10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities

He's one of the fathers of usability, so Jakob Nielsen's advices on web-design are always precious...

This article presents 10 suggestions on how to improve a for-profit website; anyway, many of them can be very useful for general purpose sites too.

Contains a link to an even more interesting set of articles about Writing for the Web.

(From dzone.com)

EDIT: corrected Gollum-style "precioussssss" ;-)

Tux Guitar

A Guitar Pro-like software for Linux.

Looking at the screenshots on the site, it doesn't look very much different from KGuitar, but at least this project is alive while KGuitar isn't.

Design Patterns

#1 - The Factory Pattern
(from dzone.com)

GREYCstoration

Great free, open source tool "for image denoising and interpolation".

Take a look at the demo pictures to see the astounding things this tool can do!
:-O

(from Slashdot)

Intro

So what is this all about? The main purpose of this blog is to work as an easy to use/easy to browse link repository, where to store all the interesting links I encounter while I'm browsing the net, when I have no time to explore them further, or are just too cool to be lost. 

I use more than one PC so using the browser's bookmarks wouldn't do the job, especially when I use different browsers! Using the email is, as I've found out, a mess, too. I have 60 emails tagged as "links" in my inbox that are waiting to be visited. I'll probably never do.

I have this blogger account, which I opened some time ago to post on Matgala's Photoblog, but I haven't used it very much, I take less pictures than I thought. So I decided, let me try to put all those links in a blog. It's computer independant, easy to use, reliable... And incidentally, someone may find it's contents useful or amusing.

So here we are. I've just one thing to say: don't spam this blog, nobody reads it anyway. ;-)

Oh by the way, I'm Italian, so if you find my English funny, there's a reason. :-)

Have fun.