For those guitar player, editor, composer who can’t seem to let go of GuitarPro, you now have a great open-source alternative in Linux – TuxGuitar.
TuxGuitar is an open source tab multitrack tablature editor and player that allows you to compose songs with various instruments. After 2 years of testing and development, it has finally reached [...]
Adobe launched its second beta of Flash Player 10, codenamed “Astro,” last Wednesday. Astro adds a bunch of helpful new features including Linux support, 3D animation and embedded photo editing tools (called Pixel Bender).
New features in beta 2 include sound APIs and advanced layering of DOM elements (JavaScript pull-down menus appear on top of Flash [...]
Screenie a small tool to allow you to compose a fancy and stylish screenshots. It is cross-platform (for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X) and very easy to use. You will have an impressive screenshot in just one minute! Not much to say here, as I found this cool utility on Google Code which can [...]
Manish Rai Jain developed an interesting tool for Linux based upone the FUSE kernel module that allows you to mount your Flickr account and manage you photos and tag.
“Flickrfs makes uploading to, downloading from, and organizing a Flickr account just like handling files in a mounted file system. After installing and setting up the link [...]
Support for some multimedia formats cannot be included on the openSUSE CDs because they’re proprietary, patented, Restricted Formats. Some of these include MP3, MPEG-4, playing of Encrypted DVDs, etc. Enabling most of them on openSUSE 10.3 is as easy as 1 2 3:
Get the Restricted Format 1-click installer:
For KDE Users
For GNOME users
This will enable you [...]
This simple howto installs the most common restricted codecs in Heron, allowing you to play mp3, aac, DVD ,mp4, avi, wmv and many more formats. It also installs the codecs for ripping mp3s using the lame encoder and making DVD/CDs.
1. In a terminal type:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
2. In order [...]
A new release of the user manual is available:
new translations: Lithuanian, Polish
new content, spelling and grammar fixes for German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Korean, Spanish, Russian, English
updated quick reference translations: German, English, French, Russian, Swedish, Italian
The source files of gimp-help-2.4.1 can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. You will notice that the tarball is a lot [...]
Wow … that was quick. Tanguy Krotoff from the VLC project announced availability of working VLC and MPlayer backends for Phonon. The VLC backend uses libvlc from the latest dev version of VLC, 0.9.
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Ian Monroe napisał(a):
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The new website for phonon-vlc-mplayer backends:
>> [...]
The release notes cover the following products:
Adobe AIR for Linux alpha
Adobe AIR SDK
Table of Content:
System Requirements
Installing Adobe AIR
Application Installation / Uninstallation Details
Tips and Tricks
Features Available
Features Not Available
Known Issues for AIR on Linux
Adobe AIR SDK
Related: First look: Adobe AIR alpha unleashed for Linux
Formerly called Apollo, AIR is the company’s runtime enabling RIAs (rich Internet applications) to run offline on the desktop. Right now, AIR 1.0, which debuted Monday, is limited to Windows and Macintosh systems. Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime for deliverying rich Internet applications on the desktop. Developers using Flex, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, and [...]
Dragon Player is a video player for KDE 4 that focuses on simplicity and easy of use. Dragon Player is the successor of Codeine, a player for KDE 3.
Some Key features:
Simple interface that does not get in the way
Resumes where you left off when replaying a video
Support for subtitles
Video display settings (brightness, contrast)
So, how [...]
Pluto Home is the project that LinuxMCE is based on. They are essentially the same thing, the different is Pluto Home is supposed to be a black box application that takes over your computer (with the advantage of stability) whereas LinuxMCE is designed to coexist with everything else a little better. Pluto Home is also [...]
A streaming version of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
BBC iPlayer (formerly known as iMP, Integrated Media Player, Interactive Media Player, and MyBBCPlayer) is a website and computer program being developed by the BBC to extend its existing RealPlayer-based “Radio Player” and [...]
Adobe Systems today announced it will release the remoting and messaging technologies used in Flex, Flash and other Adobe products as open source projects. Because the technologies are fairly mature, Adobe isn’t so much looking for help from the open source community as it is looking to get its technology into more hands.
Adobe intends to [...]
Didn’t notice, but it came out few days ago. If you are not happy with Digikam (which I like) or F-Spot, or have been using the previous Picasa 2.5 version, then check out the preview of the upcoming release of Picasa 2.7.
New Features:
Upload to Picasa Web Albums
Use the new “Web Album” button to post [...]
Two days ago Adobe has released the final version of its Flash Player Update 3, an important update that brings several new features:
Mainly, support for H.264, one of the most efficient video encoding available today
Hardware based image scaling
Full screen support on Linux
Support for HE-AAC, an advanced audio encoding
Multicore support
Support for Leopard (Mac OS 10.5)
Support for [...]
Several months ago Novell started the project named Banter. It’s being called the next generation collaboration client. Think of it as software that combines all of your online “Web 2.0″ services along with chat, video, and voice into your contact management system.
Banter’s focus is on collaboration with people. One method of collaboration is IM. Banter [...]
Just keeps getting better - the Audacity team has released another update to their popular cross-platform, open source digital audio editing application. The Audacity 1.3.x beta line features a ton of options that aren’t available in the 1.2.x stable versions. For example, it’s much easier to move sound files from one track to another or [...]
Last month, following the availability of Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” was the release of Mythbuntu 7.10. Mythbuntu is an Ubuntu derivative and has been around for less than a year, but they have been making great progress with this MythTV-optimized distribution.
After using Mythbuntu 7.10 extensively, this is the best MythTV distribution [...]
MPlayer is one of the most popular Linux/Unix media player … we all know that, don’t we. Now, thanks to XDA-Developers forum member amitv_17, the porting to Windows Mobile has started.
It’s available HERE, in the official XDA-Devs thread and is, of course, a free download. It seems to be compatible with most WM5 and [...]
Just few days ago Miro, billed as ‘Groundbreaking Internet TV software“, the open and free video player, has gone 1.0, and launched in a polished, slick package for Linux, Mac and Windows. Miro (formerly Democracy Player) is the open and free alternative to Joost, Windows Media Player and iTunes for getting, watching and organizing your [...]
UPDATE to my Previous Post: After tweaking a little with the position of the camera and playing around with the light source, and then later returning back webcam to it’s original position, the view is much better, I mean the brightness/contrast, compared to what I got from my initial experience. I am not sure whether [...]
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