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Desktop Publishing Tips
By Michael Russell

Online publishing is not so difficult. You can just make a Blogger or Wordpress account and suddenly become a self-published author or you can use software like FrontPage to create a nice web page or you might as well start publishing a periodical newsletter. It's your call. The more you surf the Web and collect ideas from other sites, the more skilled you become.

The Best Home Video Editing Software
By Lance Carr

One of the key, overriding points to keep in mind throughout the selection process is, "What is it that I am I REALLY going to do with the video editing software that I choose?" The answer to that question has to remain uppermost in your mind when selecting the best video editing software for you. It is easy to get distracted by all the "bells and whistles" on offer but the reality is that many of those features will ultimately prove useless to you.

All of the major home video editing software companies offer camcorder to DVD video editing solutions that make them almost inseparable from each other. So concentrate on what you REALLY need.

If you need to add some sound to your videos and you are using Linux, there is a very easy way to add it.
You can for example add your favourite song into your video, or even record your voice and put it in your video.

mencoder source.avi -o destination.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -audiofile /path_to_the_mp3_file/file.mp3

By telling mencoder not to compress the source video nor the audio the hole procedure will take a few seconds.

Enjoy it !!!

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You have a lot of photos so you want to post them to a website but the photos are very large and will make over a day to be uploaded to your site.

Also you maybe not want to steal your photos so you want to add a watermark with a word or your site or perhaps your logo.

You can do all this stuff and much more through Linux.

You will need imagemagick to accomplish this.

Download and install imagemagick typing this in your console of your linux distro.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

after typing your password and installing successfully the package then don't exit the console but go to the folder where the images are stored.

So if you have them put on your desktop in some folder named images then go in your console typing

Image courtesy of Aaron Michael Brown

300 the movie is a retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas and 300 spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy drawing a line in the sand for Democracy.