Mosaics from Photos with Mac OS X

Brain Nitz has introduced a nifty little Mac OS X application for Mosaics composed of other pictures. Enjoy. Thanks Brian.

A GNU desktop mechanic: "Fun Image Processing and Mosaic applications
Duncan asked me what program I used to create this photo mosaic. I used an excellent free application called MacOSaix Thanks Knarf! MacOSaix sorted through about 5000 photos on our 400mhz pismo powerbook. I don't remember how many hours it took, but I started it one evening and my wife was still watching the computational tetris the next afternoon. Poor little powerbook, if only I could run the mosaic building application on this V20z!

Well it turns out that there is an alternative mosaic sourceforge project called Jimage-mosaic Jimage-mosaic is written in Java so you should be able to run it under Linux, Solaris, Windows or MacOSX. I should be able to run it on the V20z if I have time before I have to return it :-("

Finally I have found a nice overview of some available apps and Webservices on that topic. Learning About Photo Mosaics

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My Favourite Linux for PPC News Sites

Linux on PowerPC Platform Linux PPC:

• Penguinppc.org - News and development around Linux for PPC


• http://www.gentoo.org/ - Good Linux Distribution with PPC tree
• PPCnerds.org- informative , neat design
• ppcnux
• macslash News about Mac OS X and Linux
• apple.slashdot.org - Everything Apple-related on Slashdot

All of these Sites have RSS Feeds also.


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BootCD Creator for Mac OS X - Emergency CDs

BootCD by CharlesSoft is available in a 10.3 Panther compatible form. That is a Mac program to create bootable Mac OS X CDs with a working Finder and many other working programs. Useful for maintainance and reapiring crashed Macs. Oh and i use it for backup with rsyncX.

BootCD is a tool for making CDs with Apples Operating System Mac OS X. Such CDs are called Live CDs. Classic Mac OS was easily bootable from only readable media. Mac OS X is different. It is based on BSD UNIX and has to be prepared for botting from CD. Charles Srstka has developed such a program. It collects the needed parts of the OS to al burnable image file. Afteron you can add your favourite applications for example for disk repairing or diagnose or chess.

Windows is up today not bootable from CD because it needs a writable registry file. Bart PE omits this difficulty partly.

Weblinks

* BootCD from Charlessoft (http://www.charlessoft.com/)
* Manually made Mac OS X Bootable CD (http://www.bombich.com/mactips/bootx.html)

Quote from Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved today, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootCD.
See also how to make your own Bootable Mac OS X CD http://www.macmaps.com/bootcd.html.
Or check out Linux on your Mac.

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Matt Groening Apple Ad

Matt Groening, the creator of Futurama, made a really nice and funny brochure for Apple back in 1989 as Mac IIcx was Top of the Art.
Read it, it's enlighteninig.




Matt Groening Apple Ad
Comments to this discovery all over the world:
http://tcal.net/archives/2005/01/26/1989-apple-matt-groening-ad/
http://theflow.de/archives/2005/01/26/who-needs-a-computer-anyway
http://www.caymag.com/index.php?p=317
http://thepumpkinsshow.blogspot.com/2005/01/matt-groening-y-apple.html
http://newlinks.blogspot.com/2005/01/matt-groening-apple-ad.html
http://www.x-ploration.de/archiv/2005/01/26/mac-content/
Wow, Blogsphere is quick !

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Linux, Unix and Mac OS X Tips and Tutorials

Hello. This Blog is dedicated to my newest insights in the world of UNIX.
It will contain tip about everyday usage of Linux and Mac OS X that is quite similar to BSD Unix. Cheers.

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