Video Tutes

Linking Text Frames

2011-12-30T04:18:00.000-08:00

Putting large amounts of text in a document

CubicExplorer

2011-02-23T04:39:00.000-08:00

A file explorer similar to Windows Explorer only much much better. Way better in fact. It is not limited to looking at just windows it can look on all external hard drives from inside of VirtualBox as well. Well worth taking it for a spin to see it it's up your alley!

Down load Cubic Explorer
Portable version

Drupal7 Install on Ubuntu using Xampp

2011-02-01T08:30:00.000-08:00

Just a quick video on installing drupal in Ubuntu

Background to transparency

2010-06-12T09:05:00.000-07:00

Just a little tip on how to convert a .png image with a colored background to a transparent background using the Gimp

Scribus-Blender-Button-Window

2010-06-02T06:44:00.000-07:00

This video de-constructs the button window text box and it's layers

Scribus-Blender-Mesh-Modelling

2010-06-02T06:41:00.000-07:00

This video deals with the Mesh Modeling text box and it layering.

Scribus-Managing-3D-Objects

2010-06-02T06:40:00.000-07:00

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This video dels with the layers of the 3D Objects text box

Scribus-Blender-Interface

2010-06-02T06:39:00.001-07:00

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This I deal with the text box Blenders Interface. I show you how the layering works for this text box.

Scribus-Blender-Intro

2010-06-02T06:38:00.001-07:00

In this the first video we give you an overview of the layering used to create this document by Blender in Scribus

Scribus-Blender-Overview

2010-06-02T06:36:00.000-07:00

Over the next five videos I will deconstruct a Scribus document created by Blender showing you how you can create a complicated document in layers making less complicated to make this way.

Scribus Templates

2010-05-28T11:37:00.000-07:00

This Tutorial shows you how to save your Scribus documents as a template for future use.

Outlines and Scrapbook a Practical Example

2010-05-26T01:18:00.000-07:00

Here is a practical example of applying outlines and using teh scrapbook to make a simple poster for a notice board.

Scribus-ScrapBook

2010-05-19T03:56:00.000-07:00

In this video I'll show you how to use the scrap book to re-use common elements and objects instead of re-creating them over and over again.

Text To Outlines

2010-05-16T04:53:00.000-07:00

How to turn normal text into an object to use as banners etc

Import from Google Docs To OpenOffice

2010-05-11T04:12:00.001-07:00

Using the OpenOffice Gdocs extension I'll show how to import a Google docs document into OpenOffice Writer. For this one I'm using a new mic so I'd appreciate some feedback o sound quality even though I'm still playing with the sound settings.

OpenOffice to Google Docs

2010-05-06T08:45:00.000-07:00

Using an extension in OpenOffice it is possible to upload your OpenOffice documents to Google Docs. with the only draw back being that your documents get converted to Google Docs format.

Flow Text Around Picture

2010-04-30T08:18:00.000-07:00

Just a quick video to show how to get text to flow around pictures

Install Apps From PPA's

2010-04-27T00:26:00.000-07:00

Here's a really nice Lucid feature. In this video you can see that users can now add software from your PPA without using the CLI. They just need to get you deb line, and using the software center, they are good to go.

Scribus Gradient Text

2010-04-26T04:59:00.001-07:00

How to use Scribus to produce gradient text effect

OOo-Synonym-Extension

2010-04-26T04:56:00.000-07:00

This is an extension that allows you to use Synonyms in Writer. It's a bit of a Primadona when setting up but, once set up it works fine. This video takes you through the process I used to set it up.

7zip Split

2010-04-21T04:37:00.000-07:00

This video will show you how to spit a large folder or application in a number of smaller zip files.

RecordMyDesktop Settings

2010-04-18T10:04:00.000-07:00

These are revised settings that I'm now using for RecordMyDesktop

Openshot Movie Editor

2010-04-18T06:23:00.000-07:00

I got this tutorial from the Lubuntu site as it's one of the best videos on showing how to use OpenShot I've seen.

Drop Caps Re-Visited

2010-04-08T01:38:00.000-07:00

This Tutorial we show you how to apply a character style to a a drop cap style to add extra formatting such colour to the drop caps

Stop Default Keyring pt2

2010-03-28T14:11:00.000-07:00

And this is part two, to stoping the default keyring popping up
when you go to use Evolution or Empathy.

Stop Default Keyring pt1

2010-03-28T14:05:00.001-07:00

This little video is part one of stopping that annoying default keyring
popping up when you start up Empathy and Evolution

Installing Guest additions with Nautilus as Admin

2010-03-27T08:55:00.000-07:00

This video takes you through the process of Installing Virtualbox Guest additions
using Nautilus as the administrator. No more messing with terminal commands.

PDFMod Drag n Drop

2010-03-27T04:35:00.000-07:00

Using two PDFMod windows to drag and rop PDF pagges between them.

Intro To PDF Mod part-1

2010-03-21T10:46:00.000-07:00

Just a little intro to PDFMod a great little toll that lets you modify or combine PDF documents or books.

Intro To PDF Mod part-2

2010-03-21T10:00:00.000-07:00

Just a little intro to PDFMod a great little toll that lets you modify or combine PDF documents or books.

Dropbox for Linux

2010-03-20T08:00:00.000-07:00

A GUI for ffmpeg

2010-03-20T07:58:00.001-07:00

pkill things when killall isn't enough

2010-03-20T07:18:00.000-07:00

Add Custom Buttons To Thunderbird

2010-03-20T07:02:00.000-07:00

Fixing Broken Images in OpenOffice

2010-03-20T06:39:00.000-07:00

LightBox Test

2009-05-03T12:59:00.000-07:00

Thunar as administrator

2009-04-24T13:18:00.001-07:00

Click To Play how to create a luancher for Thunar file manager in XFCE (PC-OS) to open up Thunar as the admin.

Form Design

2009-04-23T08:23:00.001-07:00

Click To Play How to create a form in OpenOffice Writer. In this tutorial we will be using check boxes, group boxes, labels, and text boxes,to create a simple form.

Using Nautilus as Adminitrator

2009-03-19T06:28:00.000-07:00

Click To Play This video shows you how to use nautilus file browser in Linux as the administrator instead of using the terminal to do things like opening and copying files etc. It also shows you how to put a short cut on your task bar to make your life easier to us nautilus as the amin.

VirtualBox Shared Folders In a Linux Guest OS

2008-11-24T08:31:00.000-08:00

Click To Play using virtualbox shared folders in a linux guest operating system

Scribus Manipulating Shapes

2008-10-29T10:07:00.000-07:00

Click To Play How to manipulates shapes and turn them into images or textboxes in Scribus

Part 2 setting up the Windows side of Shared folders in VirtualBox

2008-10-29T08:02:00.000-07:00

In this video I will show you haow to complete the Windows side of sharing you Ubuntu home folder with Windows XP

Part 1 setting up Virtualbox shared folders

2008-10-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Part 1 deals with setting up the shared folder (Ubuntu home folder) in Virtualbox

Creating Labels From a Database

2008-10-17T06:16:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Creating labels from a databse in OpenOffice Writer

Using filters with mailmerge

2008-10-13T08:15:00.000-07:00

Click To Play In this tutorial I will show you how to use a database filter to find just the information you want to use in your mailmerge letter.

Creating a Form Letter Using a Datasource

2008-10-09T06:51:00.001-07:00

Click To Play In this tutorial I'll show you how to use a database or spreadsheet to create a form letter manually in OpenOffice Writer

Registering a database in OpenOffice Writer

2008-10-08T13:05:00.001-07:00

Click To Play This tutorial demonstrates how to register an OpenOffice databse or spreadsheet in OpenOffice to be used for letters, labels or envelopes

Cinelerra Video Effects pt2

2008-05-25T08:47:00.000-07:00

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Cinelerra Video Effects

2008-05-24T05:07:00.000-07:00

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DVD Menus With DVD Styler

2008-05-23T14:59:00.001-07:00

Click To Play This video shows you how to create a video menu for playing in a dvd player using DVDStyler

Cinelerra Basic Video Editing

2008-05-23T11:14:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Getting started with cinelerra. I'll take you through the process of creating a video using cinelerra and kino

Alias Commands

2008-05-06T06:07:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Using an Alias in Ubuntu as a keyboard short cut to simplyfying commands

ogg to mp4 conversion using VLC

2008-05-02T06:14:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Yes folks we are going to use VLC Media Player to convert an ogg file to mp4 format. You can now send your ogg files as mp4's to (dare I say it) windows or upload them to youtube. Flosss manuals also has some info on resizing your vids for you tube. http://en.flossmanuals.net/VLC/EncodeVideoinVLC #transcode{ }, and type width=352,canvas-height=288

Installing Epson DX8400 on Ubuntu

2008-05-01T07:03:00.000-07:00

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OpenOffice Bullet Points

2008-04-23T08:45:00.000-07:00

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Printing Envelopes

2008-04-15T13:18:00.000-07:00

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Creating a Letter Form a Template Creating a Letter Form a Template

2008-04-15T01:04:00.000-07:00

Click To Play In this tutorial we show you how to create a letter using the built in templates in Writer.

Basic Formatting

2008-04-15T00:58:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Doing some basic formatting in Writer

2008-04-08T09:03:00.001-07:00

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base forms

2008-04-08T08:25:00.000-07:00

Notecase Encryting a File

2008-04-03T04:07:00.000-07:00

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NoteCase 1.8.5

2008-03-29T06:30:00.001-07:00

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NoteCase

2008-03-26T05:10:00.000-07:00

Click To Play A neat little application for keeping notes in

Pool-Balls

2008-03-10T08:40:00.001-07:00

Click To Play this tutorial we will show you how to create some pool-balls as in the game of pool using (XaraLX the Linux version of Xara Extreme).

Scribus Working with OpenOffice Documents

2008-02-20T11:16:00.000-08:00

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Scribus Calendar Wizard

2008-02-11T13:04:00.001-08:00

Click To Play How to use the calendar wiard that comes with Scribus to produce basic calendars. You can create monthly, yearly, or event type calendars. Along with some of the formatting tutorials that have been shown in previous videos you should be able to produce some nice looking calendars.

Scibus Text Effects

2008-02-08T12:49:00.000-08:00

Click To Play Creating various text effects using shadows in Scribus

Scribus Generating a Table of Contents

2008-01-07T07:16:00.000-08:00

Click To Play For this tutorial we will show you how to to generate a table of contents with in a Scribus document. We will also show how to apply internal links so that you may navigate around your document.

Links in Scribus Documents

2008-01-04T05:01:00.000-08:00

Click To Play How to use links in Scribus. For this tutorial we will show you how to use two types of links in Scribus. The first type of link will be an internal link which you can use to jump around your pdf document. The second type of link will be an external link which will allow you to go to web-sites on the internet from your pdf file.

XaraLX the Bevel Tool

2007-12-29T06:08:00.000-08:00

Click To Play How to use the bevel tool in XaraLX

Test Around Image pt4

2007-12-24T03:13:00.001-08:00

Click To Play This time w use just an shape frame and convert it to an image frame. We also use a bounding box to give us the space between the image and the text.

Text Around Image pt3

2007-12-23T09:34:00.000-08:00

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For This tutorial We'll show how to get text to flow around weird shape images using an shape frame, image frame, and a text box.

This will allow you to create some interesting documents that are a little different to the normal square shaped images in documents.

XaraLX Gel Button

2007-12-18T04:09:00.000-08:00

Click To Play Creating a gel button in XaraLX

Text Around A Cirlce

2007-12-18T01:48:00.001-08:00

Click To Play Putting text around a circle in XaraLX

Text Over Images

2007-12-17T07:01:00.000-08:00

Click To Play This tutorial will show you how to put a transparent box with cut out text over a lager image to create an advert or magazine cover effect.

Scribus Creating Template

2007-12-05T05:39:00.000-08:00

Click To Play You can also see this video at ShowMeDo

Scribus Tables

2007-11-30T09:24:00.000-08:00

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How to use and Cutomize tables in Scribus You can also see this video at ShowMeDo

Scribus Converting Shapes

2007-11-18T04:45:00.000-08:00

Click To Play Converting shapes to text or image frames in Scribus

You can also see this video at ShowMeDo

Scribus Coloured Text Boxes

2007-11-15T08:11:00.001-08:00

Click To Play Creating coloured and gradient fill text boxes in Scribus.

Sribus svg and multi column text

2007-11-12T04:13:00.001-08:00

Click To Play Using multiple columns with text flowing around svg graphics

Scribus Using SVG Graphics

2007-11-11T10:03:00.000-08:00

Click To Play Using svg (scalable Vector Graphics) in Scribus

Scribus Text to Path

2007-11-09T03:21:00.000-08:00

Click To Play Putting text on lines in Scribus

Scrubus PDF Forms

2007-11-07T09:19:00.000-08:00

Click To Play How to create a basic PDF form in Scribus. These forms can be filled in within a PDF reader and sent through email.

Scribus Drop Caps

2007-11-01T08:20:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Creating a drop cap style in scribus.

Scribus Styles

2007-10-31T06:31:00.000-07:00

How to apply styles to headings and paragraphs in Scribus Click To Play

audacity ubuntu 7.10 exportmp3

2007-10-30T02:18:00.000-07:00

Click To Play how to export an mp3 file from Audacity in ubuntu gutsy 7.10

Levels Within Scribus

2007-10-17T07:46:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Levels can be thought of as layers within one layer. Here is how to use them Once movie starts to play double click it to view it full size.

layers In Scribus

2007-10-17T07:28:00.000-07:00

Click To Play This Tutorial shows how to use layers in Scribus Once movie starts to play double click it to view it full size.

Text Around Image Pt2

2007-10-17T07:10:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Having text flow around an image using a bounding box Once movie starts to play double click it to view it full size.

Text Around an Image

2007-10-17T06:50:00.000-07:00

Click To Play Part 1 of getting text to flow around an image in scribus Once movie starts to play double click it to view it full size.

Insert an Image

2007-10-17T06:01:00.000-07:00

Click To Play This tutorial will show how to insert images into image boxes in Scribus Once movie starts to play double click it to view it full size.

Inserting Text In Scribus

2007-10-17T05:36:00.000-07:00

Click To Play How to use text boxes in Scribus Once movie starts to play double click it to view it full size.

This video will introduce yoiu to Scribus the destop puiblishing programme

2007-10-17T04:48:00.000-07:00

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Portable screencasting

2007-09-18T03:32:00.001-07:00

Click To Play Once movie starts to play double click it to view it full size.

codec comparison test

2007-09-11T09:17:00.000-07:00

Click To Play this video gives an over view of which codec to use to create the smallest file size of screeencast while maintaning excelent viewing quality. Once movie starts to play double click it to view it full size.