Screencast - creating round gradient button in Inkscape

As promised, here is a demo of how to create professional grade rounded button for your website using Inkscape.
By the way, in order to create this video, I learned how to do screen recording in Ubuntu Linux. Well, soon I will post that how to :)

How to create beautiful button using Inkscape

For the un-initiated, Inkscape is a very powerful, free, open source and friendly SVG graphic editor. When I was browsing around Apple's web store, I saw a beautiful "select" button. That is a typical apple-ish button with gradient and rounded edges. I did some research to find how to create such a nice button in Inkscape. I could create a nice professional looking button in a few minutes (not as good as Apple though). Here it is:


Watch for a step by step tutorial on how to create this - over the weekend.

The new way of technical presentation.

Recently, I came across a discussion on presentation and content delivery in the web 2.0(whatever that is) world.
With fast computing resources and huge availability of graphics and other media ( who cares about licenses anyway), the face of presentation has started changing.
If you are still stuck on the old way of textual/animated text presentations(PowerPoint, keynote or whatever), you should take a look at the presentations by Dick Hardt and Lawrence Lessig. Very innovative and capturing.
But the point is you cannot effectively convert any presentation in to this genre. Though you might succeed, the audience may not be ready yet to accept the quick and "on-your-face" mode of delivery. I guess this suits generic introduction kind of talks.