How to use RPM in Fedora Linux

RPM is used to build, install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages.

It was originally designed to work with Red Hat / Fedora Linux. Currently it also works on other rpm-based distributions: Suse, Mandriva Linux, Conectiva and etc.

To install software packages, use the following command:

rpm -i foobar.rpm

To uninstall a software package:

rpm -e foobar.rpm

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Picasa 3 for photo editing

Few photos start out perfectly. One of the software I use frequently in editing photos taken by digital camera is Picasa. Picasa is Google’s freeware for photo management.

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How to convert mp4 to AVI in Windows

I usually use Windows Movie Maker which is bundled with Microsoft Windows to edit video taken using my digital camera. It supports quite a number of video formats like AVI, WMV and so on. However, MP4 is not support in it so far.

Following is a free software I found recently for converting MP4 file into AVI file:

Quick Media Converter

According to Quick Media Converter introduction, it enables users to convert between most audio and video formats, including AVI, DVD, Quicktime, Flash, Xvid, DivX, MPEG, MP3, WMA, MP4, 3GP and many others. Users can convert multiple files (of different formats) in a single process and optionally customize the output settings in Expert Mode.
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Learning GIMP

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freeware for creating and manipulating graphic images that runs on different types of OS like Windows, Linux and Mac. GIMP offers photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is considered to be Photoshop alternative and has been extensively use in professional graphics and film production for graphic design.

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Learning Chinese blogging

Chinese language is my mother tongue. I speak Chinese (Mandarin, Teochew, Hokkien and so on). I write Chinese, I read Chinese. All these are natural to me. However, when come to Chinse computing, it is not something natural to me. I have been avoiding writing Chinese language using my computer for years … It is not really something that I can write easily using computer.

However, when I like to communicate with my friends from China, it is not so natural to write my email in English as English is still not a language that is commonly use in China.

After some thought and also encouragement of my friends, I have decided to start a Chinese blog and hope by maintaining a iTeochew I will write more often Chinese character using my computer. Hopefully by doing so, my Chinese writing using computer will improve gradually.

Joojen introduced Sogou pinyin input to me. This is really a very fast and good free Chinese pinyin software system. You may like to download and give it a try.

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