Good iPhone Applications for Linux Developers

I was going through my RSS feeds, and I saw this article about iPhone apps for developers and freelancers. There's some good stuff in here, so check it out.

Create Oscar-Worthy Movie Scripts With Celtx

Celtx is a media pre-production editor that allows you to easily create screenplays and storyboards for your next movie. You can use it to create a whole assortment of media, including theater, comics, advertising, and video games.



Celtx utilizes a full tagging system for authors to keep track of characters, cameras, and effects. Match that with storyboard scenes and sequences, built-in schedule production, and the detailed reporting features, and it's pretty easy to create a script with Celtx.



This application is not in the official repositories, but it's pretty easy to install regardless. Just click to download the archive, and extract it to a folder. Navigate to the folder using the terminal, and launch the celtx binary with ./celtx. You can append a & like ./celtx & to run it in the background.

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khtml2png - Take Command Line Web Screenshots on Linux

khtml2png is a helpful tool for capturing an image of a webpage with ease. It's nice to use because it will get the entire length of the site, no matter whether it is fully visible in the browser. And, it sure beats shell scripting Firefox to open on a different display and capturing an image with Imagemagick, which is a royal pain in the butt. I embed this application in PHP scripts to create web design roundups over at my other blog. I was able to capture 75 minimal web designs without much hassle.


Example of a khtml2png webshot

This application is a little harder to install because it's not in the Ubuntu repositories. I couldn't find a Deb file, so you'll have to compile it from scratch. Scratch that! I found one at Sourgeforge. Install that, or compile with the directions below. That being said, if someone wants to post a link to a Deb file or a repository, I would love you forever. You need to have a few packages compiled to use khtml2png, including g++, KDE 3.x, kdelibs for KDE 3.x (kdelibs4-dev), zlib (zlib1g-dev), and cmake. This command should work:

sudo apt-get install g++ kdelibs zlib1g-dev cmake

You may need more packages than that. It's hard for me to tell because I have so many already installed ;-) Post in the comments if you need help. After that, compile it!

./configure
make
make install

You can use it to take a screenshot with a command like the following:


/usr/bin/khtml2png2 --display --width 1024 --height 768 http://thedailyubuntu.blogspot.com/ /home/you/webshot.png





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