6 comments I was emailed by the BBC last week and asked to comment for the PM programme about suggestions that the British Government may add basic programming skills to the national curriculum, and whether this would have a political impact on society in terms of how we interact with technology.… Read the rest
0 comments Today I tried to install all the different Free Software VJ tools that I could find for GNU/Linux (VJ = video jockey, like DJing vith video). I was using my favorite distribution, Fedora, version 16, which I installed at the weekend on the laptop of a new friend of mine, Federica, who came to a Manchester Free Software meeting the week before.… Read the rest
0 comments On 4th September Anna Morris, Yuwei Lin and I gave presentations of Free Software at the DIY Feminist Festival in Manchester.
During the Open Street Map workshop a group of us went into the large park near the venue and added detail using pre-printed paper maps and mobile devices.… Read the rest
2 comments UPDATE: I can now confirm that gImageReader also works well on Windows.
Today I discovered gImageReader – really easy OCR software for GNU/Linux. It uses Tesseract as its back-end, and the interface is very intuitive, with straightforward instructions at the bottom of the window letting you know what to do next at each stage of the OCR process.… Read the rest
8 comments The letters to the UK government departments and institutions requesting the removal of adverts for proprietary PDF readers have finally been prepared for sending!
I wrote a new PHP script to generate the ODT documents complete with envelopes, and then printed and folded them all.… Read the rest
