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20 OS Tools To Make Your Valentine Memorable
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We will help you create a perfect and lovely Valentine’s Day card along with open source chocolate, open poetry, open source jewellery and much more.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012:
Love is in the air and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. May be you have not planned a perfect date yet. Do not panic, the open source community has you covered. To help you out and honor the season of love, we have put together a list of open source tools for romantics. We will help you create a perfect and lovely Valentine’s Day card along with open source chocolate, open poetry and even open source jewellery. This is not all. To kick start your perfect evening, we have added a cluster of apps together to create a mesmerising sound track that your beloved will love. In addition, we have apps to help you make your dance moves perfect, select the perfect wine and cook an exotic dinner or watch a movie full of romance.
Valentine’s day card
1.Gimp
If you want to add a photo to the card and surprise your Valentine, Gimp is a perfect tool to help. You can crop and edit photos with a wide range of features suitable for amateur or professional designers and photographers. Operating System: Windows, Linux
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2. Scribus
Create your own Valentine's Day message with Scribus. It offers professional-caliber graphic design capabilities with an amateur-friendly interface. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
3. Inkscape
You can create your own vector graphics or edit existing ones. The site includes a gallery with plenty of free Valentine’s day clip art. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
4. Dia
If your significant other is particularly geeky, you might use Dia to create a flowchart demonstrating how your love has grown. (Use this technique with extreme caution) Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
Chocolates
5. Chocolate Invader
People at this website do not offer an application. They are only selling chocolate moulded in the shape on space and they plan to "open source" their design and recipe. They already provide some information about their production process online. If you do not want to order their best tasting chocolate in the universe, you can at least try your hands at creating a Chocolate Invader. Operating System: N/A
Poetry
6. OpenSourcePoetry
Create your own words of love to impress your date. This website offers tools to help you write your own poem or to collaborate with other poets on an open source creation. You can save your lines for your own reference or for others to use in creating new works. Operating System: OS Independent
Jewellery
7. iNacklace
This necklace for Mac fans slowly pulses with light. You can buy it premade or download the open source schematics from GitHub to make it yourself. Operating System: N/A
Music
8. Amarok
Amarok is a music organiser and player that integrate with a number of Web services so you can find new music, just like iTunes. You can set your own playlist with Amarok and its playlist feature makes it easy to play a section of songs. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
9. Aqualung
Aqualung audio player offers gap-free playback between adjacent tracks, and it plays a wide variety of file formats. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
10. Audacity
In case your feelings are not expressed on someone else’s song and you want to write your own, Audacity is here to help you. It offers the recording and editing tools that you need to create your own musical masterpiece. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
11. Jajuk
Jajuk audio player has been called as “iTunes” Replacement and "the most powerful jukebox out there." Apart from digital DJ rules-based playlist, ambiance management, prepare party, best of, smart shuffle and other features. It includes tools that can help you set the right mood for Valentine's Day. Operating System: OS Independent
Practice you Dance Moves
12. Dancecues
Most of us know that everyone cannot dance. But if you really are serious about it and want to make those moves to impress your valentine, DanceCues can help. It is also very suitable for choreographers and makes it much easier to create cue sheets than using a word processor. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
13. StepMania
This game helps you practice staying on beat, and it might help you do a better job of dancing with your sweetheart on Valentine's Day. Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X, Xbox
Wine
14. CellarBoss
For people with a large collection of wine, this app helps keep track of the bottles you own and you'd like to try next. It's Java-based and doesn't require a separate database, so it's easy to get started. You can also use it to find the perfect wine for your Valentine. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
15. Brewtarget
If your Valentine likes beer more than wine, Brewtarget can help you craft the perfect drink. This app is a beer calculator that helps home brewers track recipes and calculate the end results. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
Cook a Romantic Meal
16. Recipe tools
This tool is all set to help you cook that exotic dinner for your Valentine and add elegance to the night you are planning to spend together. Good Valentine’s Day recipes are available with RecipeFox Firefox add-on, you can easily grab recipes off the Internet and save them for use later. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
17. Gourmet
Track all of your favourite recipes with this recipe organiser. It can also create a shopping list to help you prepare for a romantic dinner. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
Watch a Romantic Movie
18. VLC Media Player
Staying in after all the care you show and fun you have, it’s always a best idea to watch a romantic movie.VLC can play nearly any kind of video or audio file (including DVD and Blu-Ray), and it can also convert files from one format to another. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X, others
19. XBMC Media Center
XMBC has been created with PC Home Theater in mind. It supports most remote controls and it can run on a network, so you can keep your multimedia library on one system and access it from anywhere in the house. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X
20. Mplayer
This is an award-winning video player that supports a long list of files and it is most popular with Linux users. In development for twelve years, this is a stable, mature app with plenty of features. Operating system: Linux
Tahir Zubair, EFYTIMES News Network
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