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Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard K811
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Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard K811
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Key Features
Switch & type from Mac to iPad to...
Pair the keyboard with up to 3 Apple devices and quickly switch between them with the press of a button. Start typing on your Mac, then instantly switch to one of your other devices including iPad, iPhone or even Apple TV.
Better typing—day or night
Keys are sharp, bright, and always easy to read thanks to auto-adjusting illumination which dims or brightens depending on the amount of light in the room. Illumination is especially helpful when you need to type in the dark, for example in the bedroom or in the living room in front of the TV.
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USB rechargeability means you'll never run out of power. Easily top up the keyboard with the convenient USB cable and continue to work. Fast, flexible recharging has never been easier.
Logitech Easy-Switch
Press one button to switch in an instant between your Apple Bluetooth devices. Logitech Easy-Switch allows you to quickly toggle between
- Typing an email on your Mac
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- Mac with OS X 10.6.8 or later
- iPad or iPhone with iOS 4.0 or later
- Apple TV software 5.2 or later
- Internet connection (for software download)
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Package Contents
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- Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard
- USB recharge cable
- User documentation
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Groton fire district squabble 'just a mess'
Groton - The relationship between the volunteer company that owns the Fort Hill Station in Poquonnock Bridge and the fire district board has deteriorated to the point that the board is considering closing the station, moving all career firefighters across town, and starting a new volunteer force.
Poquonnock Bridge Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1, Inc., which owns the Fort Hill Station and leases it to the district, met Thursday night and voted unanimously to not accept applications for any new volunteers until a committee discusses the issue with the chief, according to a statement released by Fire Company Vice President John Parfitt Jr.
The statement, issued on behalf of the company, also said volunteer members who were active and served until 2010 should be retrained before new ones are brought in, and that volunteers should not be used to replace career firefighters.
Alan Ackley, incoming president of the Poquonnock Bridge Fire District, said the volunteer company does not have as much power as it thinks. He said the board would proceed with volunteers whether the company likes it or not.
"They think they hold all the cards and they don't," he said.
Ackley said the board could opt to close the Fort Hill Fire Station at 13 Fort Hill Road - which would require a majority vote of the board - relocate career firefighters to the second station on Long Hill Road and start a new volunteer company in Poquonnock Bridge. Ackley said the board might close the Fort Hill station regardless of the volunteer issue to save money on daily operations.
Voters approved a budget of $3.5 million for the fire district for the year starting July 1, about half of what the board had sought, and not enough to cover its payroll. Taxpayers also elected three new members.
Deb Monteiro, one newly-elected member, said the board is making things worse by rushing decisions, talking about closing a fire station and effectively telling firefighters, "if they don't play ball, their jobs are in jeopardy."
She said she's concerned about potential layoffs and the impact on public safety. The two stations in Poquonnock Bridge are at opposite ends of a large district, she added.
"The (Long Hill) location, it's about as far removed from Fitch Senior High as you can get," she said.
Ron Yuhas, a fire district board member recently re-elected, said he spoke to Deputy Chief Curt Floyd this week and was told the fire district doesn't put aside money for unemployment insurance but is on a "pay as you go plan" if it lays off firefighters.
Given this, Yuhas said the district would have to cover the unemployment costs. Chief Todd Paige was on vacation and Floyd could not be reached for comment.
Yuhas said issues regarding the Fort Hill Station, establishing a volunteer force and the costs and benefits of potential layoffs would be discussed after the new board takes office July 1.
He said comments about risking public safety are scare tactics.
"Is easy to say, 'We need, we need, we need'," Yuhas said. "But there's only so much you can spend. We have $3.5 million. And we're going to have to try to work it out."
Monteiro said the board continues to make matters worse, by making poor decisions.
"And they're talking about major layoffs," she said.
Monteiro said the state would expect the district to meet its obligation and pay unemployment costs.
"I mean, it's just a mess," she said.
Town Mayor Heather Bond Somers said the council's public safety committee is watching closley what happens in the fire district.
"But until they ask for support we probably should let things run their course because they are their own autonomous entity," she said.
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=== Visualization ===
=== Visualization ===
Revision as of 04:44, 17 March 2013
zh-CN:List of Applications/Multimedia Template:List of Applications navigation
- 1 Multimedia
- 1.1 Image Viewers
- 1.2 Graphics and Image Manipulation
- 1.3 Graphics utilities (helper apps)
- 1.4 Audio systems
- 1.5 Audio players
- 1.6 CD Ripping
- 1.7 Visualization
- 1.8 Audio tag editors
- 1.9 Sound editing
- 1.10 E-book applications
- 1.11 Phone
- 1.12 Video Players
- 1.13 Video Editors
- 1.14 Collection managers
Image Viewers
- fbv — A very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.
- fim — A highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.
- Eye of GNOME — An image viewing and cataloging program, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment.
- Feh — A fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.
- GalaPix — An OpenGL-based image viewer for simultaneously viewing and zooming large collections of image files,
- Geeqie — An image browser and viewer (fork of GQview) that adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files.
- Gimmage — A gtkmm image viewer.
- GPicView — A simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.
- GQview — An image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree
- gThumb — An image viewer for the GNOME desktop.
- Gwenview — A fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.
- Mirage — A PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.
- Picasa — An image organizer and viewer from Google that has editing capabilities and integration with the photo-sharing website.
- Quick Image Viewer — A very small and fast image viewer based on GTK+ and imlib2.
- Ristretto — A fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.
- sxiv — A simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.
- Viewnior — A minimalistic GTK+ image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.
- Xloadimage — A classic X image viewer.
- XnView MP — An efficient image viewer, browser and converter.
- xv — A shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.
Graphics and Image Manipulation
Raster editors
- Bibble Pro — A digital imaging program designed to assist photographers in post-production work and efficient optimization of images created in the Raw image format.
- darktable — A photography workflow and RAW development application.
- digiKam — A KDE-based image organizer with built-in editing features via a plugin architecture. digiKam asserts it is more full featured than similar applications with a larger set of image manipulation features including RAW image import and manipulation.
- GIMP — An image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP ( GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.
- Gpaint — A Paintbrush clone for GNOME.
- GraphicsMagick — A 2002 fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.
- ImageMagick — A command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.
- KolourPaint — A free, raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency.
- Krita — A digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform and Calligra libraries.
- Luminance HDR — An open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
- mtPaint — A graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.
- MyPaint — A free software graphics application for digital painters.
- Nathive — A "usable image editor", based on GNOME libraries with a focus on usability and a smooth learning curve.
- Pinta — A drawing and editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.
- Shotwell — An image organizer with a small set of image manipulation features (rotate, crop, color adjust, and red eye removal). It can import photos directly from digital cameras and export them to social media sites (Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, etc.).
- XPaint — A color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options.
Vector Graphics - Illustration
- Dia — A GTK+-based diagram creation program.
- Inkscape — A vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. It's developers also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
- Karbon — A vector graphics editor, part of the Calligra Suite.
- sK1 — A replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.
- Xara LX — An advanced vector graphics program, the open source version of the commercial Xara X.
Vector graphics - CAD
- BRL-CAD — A constructive solid geometry (CSG) solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray tracing support for graphics rendering and geometric analysis, computer network distributed framebuffer support, scripting, image-processing and signal-processing tools.
- http://brlcad.org/ || brlcadAUR
- FreeCAD — A CAD/CAE program, based on OpenCascade, Qt and Python with features such as macro recording, workbenches and the ability to run as server.
- LibreCAD — A powerful 2D CAD application based on Qt. It has been forked from QCad Community Edition.
- QCAD — A powerful 2D CAD application that began in 1999. QCaD includes DFX standard file format and supports HPGL format.
- VariCAD — A 3D/2D CAD and mechanical engineering application which provides support for parameters and geometric constraints, tools for shells, pipelines, sheet metal unbending and crash tests, assembly support, mechanical part and symbol libraries, calculations, bills of materials, and more.
3D Modeling/Rendering
- Art of Illusion — A 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.
- Blender — A fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.
- POV-Ray — A script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.
- Wings 3D — An advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.
Graphics utilities (helper apps)
Screen Capture
- KSnapshot — A KDE application for taking screenshots. It is capable of capturing images of the whole desktop, a single window, a section of a window, a selected rectangular region or a freehand region.
- Xfce4 Screenshooter — A screenshot application for the Xfce desktop with a plugin for the Xfce panel.
- Scrot — A simple command-line screenshot utility for X.
- Shutter — A rich screenshot and editing program.
Screencast utilities allow you to create a video of your desktop or individual windows.
- byzanz — A simple screencast tool that produces GIF animations.
- glc — A screencast tool that can capture the sound and video from OpenGL applications, such as games, where regular X11 screencast tools produce choppy results.
- Istanbul — A simple desktop session recorder that produces ogg videos.
- Kazam — A screencasting program with design in mind.
- RecordMyDesktop — An easy to use utility that records your desktop into the ogg format with a CLI, Qt or GTK+ interface.
- XVidCap — An application used for recording a screencast or digital recording of an X Window System screen output with an audio narration.
Audio systems
Audio players
Music player daemon and clients
- Music Player Daemon — A lightweight and scalable choice for music management.
- See also: List of MPD clients.
Command-line players
- cmus — A very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.
- Cplay — A curses front-end for various audio players (ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod, xmp, and sox).
- Herrie — A minimalistic console-based music player with native AudioScrobbler support.
- http://herrie.info/ || herrieAUR
- MOC — A ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.
- mpg123 — A fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).
- pianobar — A console-based frontend for Pandora.
- PyTone — An advanced music jukebox with a console interface.
- shell-fm — A console-based player for the streams provided by last.fm.
- VLC — A highly portable multimedia player with ncurses interface module, and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
GUI players
- Amarok — A mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.
- aTunes — An audio player written in Java.
- http://www.atunes.org/ || atunesAUR
- Clementine — An Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt 4.
- Cuberok — A music player and collection manager with a lightweight interface.
- DeaDBeeF — A light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK+ GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.
- Exaile — A GTK+ clone of Amarok.
- http://www.exaile.org/ || exaileAUR
- gmusicbrowser — An open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/OGG/FLAC files.
- Goggles Music Manager — A music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.
- Guayadeque — A full featured media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the GStreamer media framework.
- Nightingale — An open source clone of iTunes-based on Songbird, that uses Mozilla technologies and the GStreamer framework.
- Potamus — A lightweight, intuitive GTK+ audio player with an emphasis on high audio quality.
- Pragha — A GTK+ music manager. (fork of the Consonance Music Manager)
- Qmmp — A Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.
- Quod Libet — An audio player written with PyGTK and GStreamer.
- Rhythmbox — A GTK+ clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.
- Spotify — A proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).
- VLC — A highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
- XMMS — A skinnable GTK+ standalone media player similar to Winamp.
CD Ripping
- Abcde — A comprehensive command-line tool for ripping audio CDs.
- Asunder — A GTK+-based CD ripping program.
- cdparanoia — A Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) tool.
- Grip — A fast and light CD ripper within the GNOME project that resembles Audiograbber.
- KAudioCreator — A program for ripping and encoding Audio CDs and encoding files from disk.
- morituri — A CD ripper aiming for accuracy over speed.
- ripperX — A GTK+ program to rip and encode MP3 files.
- rubyripper — An audiodisk ripper that tries to deliver a secure rip through multiple rippings of the same track and corrections of any differences.
- Sound Juicer — A CD ripper for GNOME.
- soundKonverter — Front-end to various audio converters.
- ProjectM — A music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image-based rendering.
- VSXu — A free to use program that lets you create and perform real-time audio visual presets.
- http://www.vsxu.com/ || vsxuAUR
Audio tag editors
- Audio Tag Tool — A tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.
- Cowbell — An elegant music organizer that supports many audio formats including MP3, Ogg/FLAC, and MusePack.
- EasyTag — A utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of your MP3 files.
- Ex Falso — A cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer.
- ID3 Mass Tagger — A command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.
- Kid3 — An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.
- MP3Info — An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.
- MusicBrainz Picard — A cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).
- Puddletag — A replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.
Sound editing
- Ardour — A multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation.
- Audacity — A program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.
- Jokosher — A non-linear multi-track digital audio editor that is being developed in Python, using the GTK+ interface and GStreamer as an audio back-end.
- KWave — A sound editor for KDE.
- Qtractor — A Qt-based hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that aims to provide digital audio workstation software simple enough for the average home user, and yet powerful enough for the professional user.
- Rosegarden — A digital audio workstation program developed with ALSA and Qt that acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool.
- XCFA — A tool to extract the contens of audio CDs and convert them to various formats.
E-book applications
- Calibre — An e-book library management application that can also convert between different formats and sync with a variety of e-book readers. Supported formats include CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, DJVU, EPUB, FictionBook, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, Mobipocket, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT and TXTZ.
- Cool Reader — An e-book viewer with many supported formats such as EPUB (non-DRM), FictionBook, TXT, RTF, HTML, CHM and TCR.
- epub — A curses EPUB reader using Python and BeautifulSoup.
- FBReader — An e-book viewer with many supported formats such as EPUB, FictionBook, HTML, plucker, PalmDoc, zTxt, TCR, CHM, RTF, OEB, Mobipocket (non-DRM) and TXT.
- pPub — A simple EPUB reader using Python, GTK3 and WebKit.
- Sigil — A WYSIWYG ebook editor.
- Xournal — A pdf viewer/note taking application.
- Moto4Lin — A file manager and seem editor for Motorola P2K phones (like C380/C650).
- gnokii — Tools and user space driver for use with mobile phones
Video Players
- MPlayer — A video player that supports a complete and versatile array of video and audio formats.
- mplayer2 — A fork of the original MPlayer project with significant further development and support for a number of features not available in other Unix players.
- VLC ncurses — A command-line version of the famous video player that can play smoothly high definition videos in the TTY.
- Dragon Player — A simple video player for KDE.
- GNOME MPlayer — A simple GTK+-based GUI for MPlayer.
- Kaffeine — A very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes Xine as its backend and has excellent support of digital TV (DVB).
- Parole — A modern media player based on the GStreamer framework.
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Hi everyone! It's Val over at PinkPlease! bringing you another double recipe. Taking a spin off my last Moda Bake Shop recipe, Just Playin' Around {Baby Changing Pad & Matching Play Mat}, I wanted to show you another fun creation you can make using the circular quilt pattern. With just one Jelly Roll (plus some extra fabric for the back and piping), you can make two matching oversized floor pillows.
I am teaming up with the Fat Quarter Shop to help you with your Sherbet Pips collection (or any other Moda fabric) so that you can make a few pillows of your very own. If you'd like a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to The Fat Quarter Shop, stop on over to my blog for a giveaway today!
One Sherbet Pips Jelly Roll by Aneela Hoey
2 1/2 yards of fabric for the pillow bottom
1/2 yard of fabric for the piping
6/32″ Cotton Piping (95″ long for the small pillow and 140″ long for the larger pillow)
2 packages of 1 ½" Cover Button Kits (You will need to make 4 fabric covered buttons)
Stuffing (4 bags of 24oz. poly-fil will fill both pillows. If you are just making the large pillow, you will need 3 bags.)
Fishing Wire or Super Strong Beading Thread.
One Extra Long Needle (I used a darning needle)
***Most seam allowances are a ¼", unless indicated.***
***Read the entire recipe before starting. By doing this, you will learn how to use the scraps of the larger pillow to make the top of the smaller pillow.
***You may want to use a stronger needle (90/14) since it gets pretty crowded in the middle as you finish up the pillow top. If all you have is an 80/12 needle, you should be fine, just go slowly when you are going through the thick center, so your needle doesn't break and fly at you.***
Creating the large pillow
1. Cut the entire Jelly Roll in half, creating 80 (2 1/2″ x 22″) strips.
2. Set out all your strips in a circular pattern to decide how you'd like your pillow to look. You will need approx. 68-74 strips.
3. Choose your first strip and lay it right side up on your cutting mat.
4. Cut the strip diagonally lengthwise starting at the top right corner and cutting to 1/4″ over from the bottom left corner (see close-up photo). This 1/4″ provides the necessary seam allowance for attaching the next strip. Make sure the selvage is always the widest part of your strip (this will be the outside edge of your pillow top).
5. Here is what the first piece looks like after it's cut.
|The piece of the left will be used for the large pillow top,
the scrap on the right will be used for the smaller pillow top.
Save the scrap you just cut! This will be used to make the smaller pillow top.
6. With right sides together, pin (if you choose) and sew your second full uncut strip to the first diagonal piece, sewing from the outside (selvage end) of the strip to the middle/inside.
7. Press seams open.
8. Place the two pieces you've sewn together right side up on your cutting mat. Cut the second strip (on the right) as you did in Step 4 (above), starting from the top right corner and cutting on the diagonal down the length of the strip to 1/4″ over from the bottom left corner of the second strip.
9. With right sides together, sew the third full strip to the second diagonal piece.
10. Press seams open and trim that strip as you did in steps 4 and 8.
UPDATE!!!!! I have added the next two pictures after a few readers have made the pillows and have gotten a small hole in the middle of their pillow after they have sewn all the way around the circle. To avoid this hole, it is imperative that you do this next step.
10a. As you begin to sew around the pillow, you may notice that the strips don't always line up perfectly in the middle. (Usually after about 10 or so strips). You will need to trim it up starting at the outside edge of the pillow and coming right to the center of the pillow. Below, I have drawn a line where I "trimmed it up" once and another line where I still need to "trim it up." Even though it looks like you are ruining the pillow by chopping off some of the center, you will never be able to tell once the pillow is complete.
I promise!
|Here it is after "trimming it up."
11. Repeat this adding/cutting/trimming process with the remainder of the strips all the way around the circle.
12. When it is time to sew the final seam connecting the last diagonally cut strip to the beginning first strip, I have found that it is most effective to sew this strip starting from the center of the pillow top and sewing toward the outside to make sure everything lines up nicely. Sew slowly, so your needle can get through all those layers without breaking (and taking out an eye!)
13. After you have sewn the last strip to the first, press the final seam open. As you will notice, the middle gets a little crazy. When pressing, don't worry about the middle so much. Let it go where it wants to go. Just make sure to press the seams open as well as you can on the outer portion of the pillow top.
14. When your pillow top is complete, it may be a little wonky at the outside edge. An easy way to trim it up is to fold in half and then fold that half in half. You will now have 1/4 of a circle.
15. Find a ruler, a piece of string, or a ribbon (whatever you have close by). Holding it at the center of the circle, measure the shortest distance to the outside edge of the pillow top. I cut a ribbon to the shortest distance and dragged it across the edge of the 1/4 circle marking where I will need to trim.
16. Use the ribbon or ruler as if it were a protractor, marking the distance all the way across the ¼ circle so the when you cut along the line, it will be a perfect circle. Trim along the line.
17. Create your pillow bottom. You can either piece together scraps, use one large piece, or create another "pillow top" and make this a reversible pillow. I pieced together strips from the gray Sherbet Pips colorway.
18. Lay the pillow bottom face up on the floor. Next, lay your pillow top face down directly on top of the pillow bottom.
19. Trim the pillow bottom to match the pillow top.
20. Now it is time to make the piping. Piece together a strip of fabric that is 3"x 140″. Lay the cotton piping on top of the strip.
21. Fold the fabric over the piping.
22. Put on your zipper foot and move the needle as far to one side as possible so that it is as close to the piping as you can get it without sewing through it. Start sewing a straight line all the way down the piping leaving 2" unsewn at the beginning of the strip.
23. Pin your piping in between the pillow top and bottom making sure to put the open side of the piping on the outside of the pillow sandwich. I pinned mine so that I had at least a 1/2" seam allowance and approx. 1/2″ sticking out of the sandwich.
24. Use lots of pins!!!
25. Take a look at the pillow bottom to make sure you pinned the fabric far enough in on the back that you catch the fabric plus have extra fabric to trim away in step 30. You don't want to sew around the entire pillow and then realize that you've missed a part of the back and have to redo. It is best to catch it now!
26. After pinning all the way around the circle, stop when you have about 3 jelly roll strips left. (This will be the opening to stuff your pillow). Leave the remaining piping dangling. It is good if you have more than enough left there to finish up the circle. We will cut it down later.
27. Begin sewing 2″ in from where you put your first pin (don't forget to backstitch a few stitches to lock in your seam so that when you are stuffing the pillow, the thread won't come out). The reason you leave a little bit of it unsewn at the beginning is to make it easier to finish the piping after you have stuffed your pillow.
28. Keeping your zipper foot on, put your needle all the way to the left in order to sew as close to the piping as possible. I like to put my finger right in front of where I am about to sew in order to help the needle get super close to the piping.
29. Sew all the way around the circle as close to the piping as possible. When you get to your last pin, back stitch a few stitches and cut your thread (leaving the 3 jelly roll strips still open).
30. Now trim off all excess fabric around your circle leaving 1/4" of fabric on the outside of your seam. I used pinking shears, but this is not necessary. Don't cut too close to your seam or the seam may come out at that spot. It is better to leave more fabric on the outside edge than not enough.
31. Turn your pillow right side out through the hole that you left open.
32. Stuff your pillow. I used 2 ¾ (24oz.) bags of Silky Soft poly-fil. This stuffing is seriously soft! Use whatever you can find though…stuffing from old pillows, bean bag filling, etc. (However, if you do bean bag filling, you may need to make an inner liner to hold them all in.)
33. When you are ready to sew the pillow shut, you will want to bring the two sides of the piping together because you should have extra piping that needs to be trimmed down.
34. Trim off the excess piping, but leave the fabric that was wrapped around it.
35. Fold in the edge of the excess fabric to give it a finished look, and then wrap it over the other side of the piping to complete the circle and pin it shut. (If your piping doesn't meet perfectly together, no one will anyone ever notice!)
36. Now, you can either blind stitch the pillow shut by hand or use the zipper foot again to top stitch it closed. I took the
lazy quick route and sewed the pillow closed. I used the right side of the zipper foot this time, moving my needle all the way to the right.
37. Now the fun part….time to make your covered buttons! For each pillow you will need two buttons. I used Dritz' Cover Button Kit (size 1 ½") which was the largest button I could find at Joann Fabrics.
38. These are super simple to make. Especially the large buttons. Just follow the instructions on the back of the kit. The kit has everything you need in it to make the button (other than the fabric that you want to add to it).
|You can make some seriously cute buttons with Sherbet Pips!!!
39. Taking the largest needle you have, I used a Darning needle (but I am sure there are larger ones out there that I don't know about), thread it with strong beading thread or fishing wire. I originally tried it with regular polyester thread, but it broke when I pulled the thread tight.
40. Attach your thread to the button that you want on the front of the pillow. Doubling up the thread wouldn't be a bad idea! Send your needle through the center of the pillow top.
41. Pull the needle out on the bottom of the pillow and send your needle through the hoop of the back of the 2nd button. Send the needle back up to the top and go back through the hook on the top button. Do this over and over (about 3-5 times). When you think it is secure enough, pull the thread tight in order to tuft the pillow in the middle.
42. When you are ready to tie off the thread, first wrap your thread around the bottom of the button a few times to make a shank. Then knot your thread and cut.
Ta Dah!
You just finished a beautiful jelly roll pillow!
Creating the smaller pillow
Now, using all the scraps that you just cut off from the first pillow, let's make another pillow!
This is going to use the same process, only it will be much faster because you've already cut all your strips.
Take your first two strips and sew them right sides together.
Press open.
Add next strip and press open.
Trim up your strips.
Continue all the way around the circle.
There you have it… two pillows with one jelly roll!
One floor pillow measuring 40″ in diameter and a smaller pillow measuring 28″ in diameter.
I really hope you are able to follow along with this tutorial. I can't wait to see your creations. Don't forget to stop by my blog for a Giveaway sponsored by The Fat Quarter Shop.
Val Campbell


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KBasic Brings BASIC to Qt World
KBasic is a new programming language similar to Visual Basic. It combines the best features of those tools and comes with built-in backward support for those tools as it is 100% syntax compatible to VB and QBasic. It is written with Qt making it entirely cross platform. The Full Version Professional Edition is available to download for KDE now. It follows the old Qt licencing of being GPL licenced for Free Software and commercially sold for proprietary software.
KBasic is an open source project backed by years of continual development. Versions are available for KDE, Windows and Mac. It allows developers with an installed base of VB applications to start developing for a mixed Windows, Mac OS X and Linux environment. It is made up of a compiler, an interpreter and an integrated development environment. It is about 15 MB source codes in C++ and about 1000 source code files.
People around the world join KBasic - inspired by the idea to make software available for everybody: a programming language that is easy to use, and a development platform that is stable, reliable and available at a low price.
We communicate by different means, most of them on the Internet. The KBasic community rests on dedicated volunteers to further improve our programming language and development platform in a number of different ways. Whatever your skills, there are lots of places to start contributing.
The project is under active development and has a vibrant community. Take a look at ways to contribute.
KBasic supports calling functions of C/C++ library files, enabling you to mix C/C++ and BASIC code. KBasic uses SQLite as an embedded database engine, which creates database files locally on your machine without the need of a database server. Libraries are availalble for data/time, i18n, RTF, web browser.
KBasic Software is a small software company with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. KBasic Professional is its flagship product, the multi-platform BASIC programming language and environment.
Not a KDE app...
... but still a nice and welcomed addition to the free software world.
I started programming with BASIC on a Laser 210 computer when I was 10, and maybe I can "convert" one of my students to Linux; he is 14 and currently writing VB.NET apps on Windows.
Who else had his first programming experiences with BASIC?
By christoph at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
The first language I learned was QuickBASIC, in grade 6, and while I'm not really a fan of BASIC anymore, I still have fond memories of it :P
By Jeffery at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
Same for me, of course along with the games Nibbles and Gorillas! :-) That was really funny :-)
By dh at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
Basic V2 (Commodore 64), AmigaBASIC, GFA-Basic (atari ST and Amiga), STOS (Atari ST), Amos (Amiga). Does that count...
By Jonas at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
Good stuff! I had all kinds of fun with Amos back in the day. :-)
By Nikolaj Hald Nielsen at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
Hmm, I don't know if it counts as an "experience", but my first contact with programming was when I got my hands on a book about BASIC when I was 5. Didn't have a computer to try it out, but nevertheless I was thrilled :). The first "programming" "language" I really wrote in was DOS batch files (later including NDOS), followed by QBasic and Pascal.
By slacker at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
My first programming experience was with TI-BASIC on the TI-85...
By momo at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
Same here, but on the TI-84+
I wrote pong for it and it was CRAZY slow. I'd love to be able to write apps for it in C/++ and compile them and put them on the calc instead of having to choose between BASIC and ASM..
By ethana2 at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
Sinclair Basic on a ZX-Spectrum 16. Fun times. It was a loaner, and I persuaded my parents to buy the infinitely cooler 48k speccy because I demonstrated filling up the available memory with basic code.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Who else had his first programming experiences wit
I had. My first computer was ZX Spectrum 48)
By Dark Amateur at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Who else had his first programming experiences wit
Mine too. Sir Clive Sinclair is a hero. =)
I fondly remember games like "Jet Set Willy", "Underworld", "Sabre Wulf" and "Elite". Apart from programming dead simple things like text adventures and the occational drawing app. The draw app was controlled by a joystick and could only draw lines. I think that was assembly code though as it was lightning fast. So fast that a single tap on the joystick would send it out to the screen-edge and from there it would only draw a "box" following the screen-edge. Not really useful.
By Oscar at Thu, 2009/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
When I was very small I used to draw pictures using the cursor keys and the graphics symbols you got by SHIFTing keys on a Commodore PET. I started programming when I wanted to save my pictures and copied the REM statements I saw in one of my dad's programs, thinking it meant REMember. Typing "REM (-:" into the basic interpreter was fine but it didn't save my graphical masterpieces. Fortunately my dad came along and explained line numbers, ?"(-:" and DSAVE "WILLART" and I was off like a shot.
By Will Stephenson at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
Nope. I still can't understand BASIC to this day. I'm glad. It always takes me a while to understand what's going on when I have to clean up someone ugly BASIC code.
By winter at Thu, 2009/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
Basic was the first language I learned with my Epson QX-10 many centuries ago. I was like 12 or so... My mother gave me a book called "1000 games for basic" or something like that.
By eamner at Thu, 2009/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
In 1978 (or was it '79) I had an Atari 2600 VCS and bought the BASIC programming cartridge and keyboard controllers. I learned the whole language and exhausted all the coding possibilities of the limited 2600 environment in about a week. That convinced me I'd like to get into computers
Later in high school we had BASIC classes with Apple IIs. It was another year until I could afford my own computer -- An Atari 800 with an enormous 48K, and BASIC. I couldn't afford a floppy drive, so only had the 410 tape player. Later came the enhanced and faster BASIC XL.
By the time the Amiga appeared I was doing C and assembly. I've been coding in C for unix (and unix-like) systems for over 20 years now. I still miss writing games in Basic and 6502 assembly on the Atari 800.
By Ken Jennings at Thu, 2009/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
I started with Basic MSX on Yamaha.
By Ilya at Fri, 2009/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Not a KDE app...
My first program language is GVBASIC which is similar to QBASIC but not worked in PC when I was 14. Since I've loved linux I never use any software belong to Microsoft.
By WarGrey at Sat, 2009/01/24 - 6:00am
I started off with GW-BASIC on my Dad's Olivetti when I was about 8 years old, and I got hooked on programming :-)
By Claire at Sat, 2009/01/24 - 6:00am
Yeah! The greatest abomination of a programming language in existence now makes its way into KDE!
How is the progress on KCobol going?
By slacker at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Yeah!
>Yeah! The greatest abomination of a programming language in existence now makes its way into KDE!
Not even close. KDE has already been introduced to the worst language ever made: C++.
By Ronald at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Yeah!
C++ is the worst compiled language ever... except for all the others!
By David Johnson at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Yeah!
Try using Haskell or Ocaml. You'll curse all the years you have been using C++...
By Functional guy at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Yeah!
At least it puts bread on the table.
By David Johnson at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Yeah!
Actually I have used both. And I curse Haskell beyond anything else... I don't know if I would rather use BASIC, but it is possible :). Cool paradigm spoiled by "academic purity" getting in your way all the time.
OCaml on the other hand is quite nice, and for some applications the functional paradigm makes a hell of a difference. Still, there is a substantial performance difference when compared to C/C++. And I find wasting processing power impolite towards the end users. After all, they have paid for it. Also, there are some subtle scalability problems that can bite you with larger projects.
All in all, I will stick with C when I have the choice :). I'm not a great fan of C++, either.
By slacker at Thu, 2009/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Yeah!
Yes regarding haskell "academic purity" does hurt sometimes, but I honestly hope that most of these pains are just the symptom that theory isn't quite there yet, and some improvement will be possible while still sticking to the principles on which the language is founded. These are what makes it so beautiful when it works.
There's lots of ideas in the hair. Many of these would make haskell easier to use right now. However that's not the goal of the language, you don't want a good enough solution for the present, you want a very good solution for the future... so it takes time.
All that said, I honestly think that the language is already at the point where for many tasks, it can be an excellent choice.
By Jad at Fri, 2009/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Yeah!
You probably mean the "Kobol" sf project? Last time I checked they had a new punchcard plasmoid and several skins for that.
By Deral Pern at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Yeah!
Yes, all this interactive BASIC stuff is a bit new for me. The jCquard JavaScript library is where it's at for that cool Plasmoid:
Of course when I started programming we couldn't afford punchcards and had to cut up old cornflake packets instead. Didn't have any computers either, had to do it all in our heads. You were lucky..
By Richard Dale at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Yeah!
Yes, BASIC is probably the worst computer language. Notice that I said computer language since it is one of those languages that is not really compileable and is thus not a *programing* language. Not to mention that it is obsolete.
It is unfortunate that obsolete computer (and programing) languages are perpetuated just because people know them. But, that is the way with C as well.
What is BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) really? It is a pidgin based on FORTRAN IV that was modified so that it it was easier to interpert specifically designed for timesharing systems. Don't know what a timesharing system is? As I already said, very obsolete. :-D
Could someone please design a modern procedural language to replace it?
By JRT at Fri, 2009/01/23 - 6:00am
MDI Interface
According to the screenshots, this uses an MDI interface. Is this now accepted in KDE applications?
By Brian Pritchett at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: MDI Interface
I hope not XD
By Luis at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: MDI Interface
Is this important? Either use it or not...
By Peter at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: MDI Interface
> Is this important?
Of course the UI paradigm an app follows is important.
> It's not for end users but for developers and developers probably can live with that.
So you say developers can live with crappy interfaces? I object. If I use an IDE and not emacs/vi and the like, and want a streamlined and effective interface, one that classic MDI doesn't provide (not to mention that it doesn't work with multi-display setups).
(Disclaimer: that's all general remarks without judgement about kbasic)
By Hanno at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
why are people complaining ?
I saw some of you are already begging to complain about this and that and ... What I really don't understand is why. Don't like basic ? Fine , don't use this , there are still a number of way to write apps in qt besides this. Don't like how this program looks ? Again , use another IDE, there are plenty to choose from.
By Marius at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Gambas <-> KBasic ?
How does it compare to Gambas?
I once did a small project with gambas and I must say it's a very nice, stable and feature-rich environment.
By thomas at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Gambas <-> KBasic ?
Gambas isn't compatible with VB6, nor does it have the ambition to become compatible.
The professional edition is probably bought the most by small businesses that want to port their old VB6 apps to a modern platform without switching to vb.net.
By Paul at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Gambas <-> KBasic ?
KBaasic currently supports Qt4 while Gambas does not. But Gambas has packaging abilities which KBasic does not have.
By Ilya at Fri, 2009/01/23 - 6:00am
Compiling only in professional (paid) edition???
Note that the compile to executables feature is available ONLY in the professional (PAID) feature...
By Trapanator at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Compiling only in professional (paid) edition???
This is under Windows. Under Linux you can easily compile executables with free version.
By Ilya at Fri, 2009/01/23 - 6:00am
Well, actually there are simple languages as Javascript or Python that serve the same objective as Visual Basic 6: they reduce complexity hells for desktop uses.
It is merely psychological as a barrier.
I am convinced that C++ or C are not designed for desktop applications. In theory you can use all the powerful features but in reality you run into a bug and memory management hell. Shuttleworht call to use Javascript for the Desktop is up to the point.
By Andre at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Kbasic
I still don't understand why Python hasn't displaced VB on Windows. Perhaps it's the NEBM syndrome (not endorsed by Microsoft).
As for C++, it's very appropriate for the desktop. But unlike many scripting language, is unforgiving of bad programming practices. In terms of memory management, just remember that everything you allocate you need to deallocate. Destructors do much of this work for you, object hierarchies like Qt's QObject do a lot more. You can even use a full blown garbage collector. But ultimately it's your responsibility as a developer to look after your own code.
By David Johnson at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Kbasic
Yes, and it happens all the time that Developers make mistakes. A programming language should not provide for that. C++ is not unforgiving of bad programming style, it makes bad programming style possible.
It is like real construction workers, they don't like to wear a helmet. Programming languages were not created for memory management.
By Andre at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Kbasic
Hate to break the news to you, but bad programming most certainly exists outside of C++.
By David Johnson at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Kbasic
BASIC is probably preferred over Python because it is a procedural language.
By JRT at Fri, 2009/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Kbasic
When you learn how a computer works and when you start to write assembly or when some one stresses to you the importance of memory management first thing, you tend not to forget it. So I don't really see what the deal is with C++ and all the whinners. It tends to be a very fast compiled language. Fortunately, some of us aren't wasteful enough to write desktop suites in Python or BASIC or Javascript. Oh, and then there are garbage collectors. How nice.
BTW, in game programming, you'd be hard pressed to used something else. There has to be a really strong reason other than performance not to use C or C++. I've seen the Java and Python engines. Most of them just have a scripting interface, which is nice for fast prototyping.
By winter at Thu, 2009/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Kbasic
I'm not sure if you have noticed, but many games (FPS too) are "written" in Python, Ruby or Lua. Basically a C++ engine which is controlled via a "scripting" interface on top. This is same architecture that you use when writing desktop utilities or applications in Python, BASIC or Javascript. The engine in this case is typically a libraries like Qt and/or a bunch of other C/C++ libraries. It is a very smart and effective way of working. I don't see what is so "wasteful" about it.
As for garbage collection, it is probably the single most important language feature out there for improving programmer productivity. Just MHO.
By Simon Edwards at Fri, 2009/01/23 - 6:00am
64 bits?
Only works in 32 bits?
By Vagner at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
THE WORST programing language of ALL time!
Worthless programing language based on THE WORST programing language of ALL time!
By kojot at Wed, 2009/01/21 - 6:00am
Good god, I could become a programmer again!
Good god, I could become a programmer again! :-(
I wrote COBOL for Honeywell mainframes, and I also became reasonably proficient with Bill Gates' BASIC on my Radio Shack TRS-80 microcomputer. I was likewise able to use QBASIC on my first IBM PC clone (back in MSDOS days). BASIC somehow disappeared about the time that Windows 95 appeared, and I have missed it ever since.
By Kenyon Karl at Thu, 2009/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Good god, I could become a programmer again!
You might want to think about that. We wrote Kommander for point and click novice programmers. Having used many languages I once bought a cross platform Basic package that ran on OS/2. I quickly realized I was spending all my time with the reference book open looking up functions. Then I tried VX-REXX and realized I was productive with a natural language computer language. Remember Basic was never standardized and codified. If you need Basic it is because you have many lines of Basic already, and then you must consider compatibility.
Over the years I used Perl and PHP on the web and then got a job on a project where I had to work with ASP, which is essentially MS Basic. I thought at first the programmer had been whacked, but the more I tried to write good code and fix things the more I realized that ASP inherently made you write bad code, had lousy reporting and was just syntactically annoying. I refused to do any more of it. Having had to learn C++ and work with Qt to work on Kommander I was once again constantly working with my nose in the docs. However the elegance and power of C++ along with the remarkable framework of Qt made it a joy.
When I was young I thought bagpipes were cool. You don't hear them in contemporary or classical music. A little goes a long way and a lot makes me crazy. If you used to play bagpipes I'd recommend you got back into music by learning piano or guitar. Likewise I think I would pick nearly any language except scheme over Basic if I was going to get back into programming. This project is expressly useful and good because it empowers legacy code bases, but when it comes to programming legacy languages != fun.
By Eric Laffoon at Sat, 2009/01/24 - 6:00am
Good for them.
Any new piece of free open source software is welcomed.
I learned BASIC when I was about 9, but I quickly moved onto Assembly since Basic was too slow then on my Commodore 128. A few years later I started programming in Pascal, then a whole bunch of other languages (including obviously C++). Honestly I have no desire to ever program in Basic again (someone used the word abomination?). It is highly unlikely that KBasic would ever be downloaded to my computer.
But KBasic clearly gives a great advantage to whoever has some old code in VB, wants to reuse it, and for some reason gambas doesn't do it. That might bring more software into Linux and that is clearly positive for everyone.
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