The Gimp is an open source program. It's like PhotoShop but not as bloated!

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Screentones

You can go here to download what I have so far. I did not make these,
I found them off of Russian site as .png files and I just opened them in the gimp and saved them as .pat. Let me know
if they do not work. Also in order for them to show up in the patterns icons you must put those .pat files into the
"patterns" directory. Then just refresh the patterns in your gimp or just restart Gimp. I'll put up a more detailed
how to soon and also thumb nails of the patterns.

Scribus is an open source Desktop publishing software. It's very comparable to Adobe's Pagemaker.

Mounting memory cards in Linux

I take a lot of pictures with my cell phone camera. I need a way to take them off my phone. With my phone I can only
e-mail a certain size of image so when I take images at the max. quality I have to find an alternative to copy them
on to my computer! My phone uses the miniSD card so I bought a TransFlash Adapter that
connects via usb. All I have to do is pull the memory card out of my phone and plug it into
the adapter! Yet, how do you get to that card in Linux? Here's an easy way, command line way to do it in Linux.
You can follow what I type in the screen shot OR just read along. Please note, the Samsung directory was made. You
will have to create that directory. Read step 2 for more details.

Step 1: fdisk -l

Become root so you can list your devices by using the command fdisk -l. This spits out a lot
of information about anything that is connected to my computer like hard drives and usb cards. All of the

hdb, hda, hdd are Hard drives and partitions. What we need to look for is the USB memory card which is
the dev/sda1!

Step 2: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/Samsung

Now that we found the USB adapter, we can mount it so we can get access to the pics. First we need to specify where we
want to access the card. So I made a directory (aka folder) called /mnt/Samsung. So all we type is
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/Samsung.

What? You don't have that directory? Just type "cd /mnt". Then you
type "mkdir Samsung". You don't have to name it Samsung, you can call it whatever you want. I called my directory
Samsung because that's the brand of my cell phone.

Step 3: ls /mnt/Samsung

Okay now you can view what's on your SD memory card! The ls command is called List. It lists out
the file names that is on the card. As you can see in the screenshot at this step it shows the directorys in blue and
the files in other colors, green means it's executable and everyone has access to it. Usually the normal text color
for files is either white or black depending on your schema you use for your console.

Step 4: cp /mnt/Samsung/my_pix/* /home/rachael/Desktop/

This step is a little tricky because your are specifying where you want the file to copy to.
The cp commands stands for "copy". We are copying from the Samsung folder that has another folder
inside called "my_pix". The "*" means to copy EVERYTHING in the "my_pix" folder. Next we
are telling the command to copy all those pictures to my Desktop. You will have to change the "rachael" directory
to whatever your login name is. Make sure those slashes i.e. "/" or you will accidently copy over the directory
instead into it *LOL* I've done that a couple times....

Step 5: umount /mnt/Sansung

umount command means "unmount". We are now safely unmounting the memory card so we can unplug it. As long as
your not pulling the card out while it's reading or writing it will be okay.

View the screenshot of what I did, each step
is numbered on the screen shot so you can follow it.

Feel free to e-mail with any comments or suggestions. I've been using Linux for over 5 years but I still consider
myself a newbie.

Remember, in Linux there's always more than one way to do something!