ffmpeg -i IN.MOV -s 320x240 -acodec libmp3lame -vcodec mpeg4 -vtag XVID -qscale 5 output.avi
ffmpeg -i IN.MOV -s 320x240 -acodec libmp3lame -vcodec mpeg4 -vtag XVID -b 1000k output1000.avi

This player is much better than the Memup K-Slim LS i used before...

TeXshade is alignment shading software completely written in TeX/LaTeX; it can process multiple sequence alignments in the .MSF and the .ALN file formats. In addition to common shading algorithms, it provides special shading modes showing functional aspects, e.g. charge or hydropathy, and a wide range of commands for handling shading colours, text styles, labels, legends; it even allows the user to define completely new shading modes. TeXshade combines highest flexibility with TeX output quality — all in a bundle that does not demand excessive development time of the user.

http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/help/Catalogue/entries/texshade.html
Beitz E. TEXshade: shading and labeling of multiple sequence alignments using LATEX2 epsilon. Bioinformatics. 2000;16(2):135-9. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10842735.

Seems extremely powerful...

http://lightroom-news.com/2009/10/28/direct-timelapse-video-export-from-lightroom/

This seems to be a good way to start. Also, since the template files are just text files, you can change the 24fps to any number you want.

Basically just follow the instructions here: http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/scone-home.html

only!

1. put in half as much sugar, but instead chop in some white chocolate chunks

2. use cream cheese instead of butter

3. use matcha+milk mix instead of the milk. (30%matcha+hot water -> let this cool and add 70% milk)

I'm not sure if you still want to call the result a scone, but it is definitely delicious! Also, you can even treat it as a cake dough and not bother splitting the dough to form scones... yuuummy

Everything is running smoothly, except for the update manager. (I assume it's a problem of the upgrade.) After 20 min reading around however the problem was solved.

The original error message was:
E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-repository.list
(dist parse)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

Then after I click "close" in the next window I get:
E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-repository.list
E: the list of sources could not be reached
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache -> open () failed, please report

The way around it is:

replace in in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-repository.list

deb file:///usr/share/local-repository katya/

by

deb file:///usr/share/local-repository binary/

Also, here is an example of my cleaned up version of my sources.list:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ katya main upstream
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ natty partner
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty main
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ natty free non-free
deb http://www.mendeley.com/repositories/xUbuntu_11.04 /

Apart from this, I really like mint. The colour theme is much more pleasing and the general look and feel is what you would expect from a linux system. Also, it might just be me, but my computer feels like it's running slightly faster than before... But bootup is definitely faster than ubuntu.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/

Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
Locate the preference keyword.URL, double-click on it and change it to

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%...-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

(found on http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=672678821)

P.S. For the search result page i use a keyword...

I found a recipe here: http://nookandpantry.blogspot.com/2007/03/chinese-daikon-cake-luo-buo-gao.html (A very nice blog in general)

Follow her instructions, I just adjusted the recipe a tiny bit:

1. for the water, use the water you soaked your mushrooms in.

2. flour: water ratio should be 1:1 or even more water works much better I find. (If you used too much water, use (potato) starch to thicken it down again)

3. How much daikon+rest stuff you dump into the flour-water mix is really up to you, so in that respect, the recipe is flexible

4. you can leave out the chinese sausages if you're vegetarian. I think it tastes better without...

5. add a part of the spring onions last to the batter (so don't panfry it with the rest)

and I probably can't stress enough: don't use glutinous rice flour (糯米粉), but just rice flour (米粉)!

1st step: when login in, choose 'classic' instead of unity frm the menu where you normally select if you want KDE or gnome. (I haven't tried out the kde version yet... )

2nd step: compiz settings. There are a few new additions to the compiz maze of settings. So, what I think the only things you will need is probably:
From windows management:
-Scale (for the fancy F9 mac-style window picker - that the only fanzy thing I allow to indulge myself ;P)
-Move Window
-Resize Window
-Static Application Switcher (The last three thing you really need! If you switch it off you can't move, resize or alt-tab anymore)

From Utility nothing if you're minimalistic, I left the Bailer on.
No effect, no extras, no accessibility.

From Desktop: Only Desktop Wall, it's quite useful for moving windows between desktops (edge flipping) and navigating desktops - that is if you work with different desktops.

From General: it's probably useful to keep Composite & OpenGL on, as well as Gnome Compatibility.

Now I (or we) still haven't found how to drag and drop an item into an inactive window by dragging it onto the taskbar.

As for music, there is the new banshee player. From 30 mins of testing I can't say anything negative about it and it has the nice function of shuffling by songs, albums, artists and rating. I'm just replacing my rhythmbox icon by the banshee icon

After 1h: guys, throw banshee out of the window. It crashed on me twice and the shuffle by artist doesnt work! *replace banshee again* - haha and: you can't even close it properly, I had to kill it in a terminal.

I don't know what these ubuntu guys are doing, it used to be such an amazing, fast and reliable system and now it's just so messed up!

Oh yes: uninstall indicator-messages to get rid of the envelop in the top right corner...

http://meld.sourceforge.net/

And it does look very promising even from the screenshots: http://meld.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html