Cool School Multimedia Slide Show and Four Free Linux Applications Released
1 January 1970Computer industry expert Tom Russell (aka Stomfi) announces that he is making Cool School Multimedia S|ide Show and four other Linux applications written with Runtime Revolution (www.runrev.com) freely available. Cool School Slide Show is an application for displaying multimedia presentations over a network and supports text, images and sounds. Cool School Slide Show is based on Open Source technology and Runtime Revolution components.
"The combination of Runtime Revolution and Linux now makes it easy for me to create graphical interfaces ," said Tom Russell (aka Stomfi) "Combined with the features available on Linux and Open Source technology the possibilities are limitless."
Cool School Slide Show accompanies four other applications which are written with Runtime Revolution and use the Bash shell. Others include Home Cooks Recipes, Factory QA Data System, Poems and Zippy. All applications come with the Revolution executables, shell scripts and sample data and are available from: http://www.stomfi.bigpondhosting.com
Stomfi is giving the newbie as well as the seasoned professional, the chance to take advantage of all this power by writing tutorials for Novell Cool Solutions. These tutorials are explicit instructions on how to create the Runtime Revolution GUI interfaces, the GUI event scripts, and the Linux shells that are used for information manipulation. The tutorials are available from: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/author/1211.html
About Tom Russell
Tom Russell is the principal Linux Teacher/Trainer and Technical advisor at Computerbank Queensland www.cbq.org.au a not for profit organization which donates refurbished Linux computers to members of the digital divide.
Tom cut his teeth on Unix in the early 80s training clerks and scientists to use shell tools and graphical applications in a Sun networked information system, which did everything from scientific plotting and analysis to library and clerical data tasks.
A not so typical geek, Tom creates multimedia stories, kinetic sculpture, reads science fiction, dances, and travels and lives in as many countries as he and his girlfriend can afford to visit.
Source: Emediawire
All trademarks and copyrighted information contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
Related Articles
|
