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Friday, February 19, 2010

Create Your Own Avatar for Free on Linux

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 03:58 AM PST

Create Your Own Avatar for Free on Linux: Do you want to create your own avatar? I'm not talking about the Avatar movie but the graphical representation of yourself inside the computer world that you can use as a profile image on Facebook, Twitter, and various social networking sites? If yes, then allow me to show you how to create your own avatar while using Linux and installing a free software called MeMaker.

MeMaker is a simple and easy-to-use application that allows you to make customized avatars that can be used in forums, chat rooms, websites, and any other virtual places. The package is only 4628 kB in size, but don't underestimate it. MeMaker provides seven styles to choose from: freestyle, artistic, plastidudes, glyphface, plazmoid, cocohead and animal-crackers.

MeMaker provides plenty of options, like you can choose the shape of your head, eyes, and mouth among others. You can also add accessories such as glasses, hats, and face paint, or you can even grow a beard.

The avatar can be saved either as SVG, PNG, BMP, or GNOME avatar.


MeMaker can be easily installed in Ubuntu via Software Center or Synaptic Package Manager. If you are using other Linux distribution, you can download the source from HERE.

How to Open/Extract UIF Files in Ubuntu Linux

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 05:56 PM PST

How to Open/Extract UIF Files in Ubuntu Linux: If you have downloaded a UIF (.uif) file and is wondering what it is or don't know how to open it when using Ubuntu Linux or any other distro, then read on.

So what is UIF? UIF (Universal Image Format) is a compression image file format used by MagicISO that is primarily utilized to compress and backup a CD and DVD content. The advantage of using UIF file format is that it allows you to encrypt, password protect and compress cd or dvd content along with the ability to backup multiple session of CD/DVD, Audio-CD, VCD, SVCD and DVD-Video.

Now let's get down to business and show you how to open a .uif file in Ubuntu:

1. First you will need to download a command-line tool for converting UIF images:

sudo apt-get install uif2iso

2. Next, locate the file that you wish to convert and simply use this command:

uif2iso [input.uif] [output.iso]

Converting a file named movies.uif to movies.iso

3. So after converting the UIF file to ISO, simply locate the output file (in my case movies.iso) using the file browser, right-click on it, and then extract.

That's about it. It's pretty easy, right?

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