Open-Source
Just as you can rotate your desktop wallpapers periodically with tools like Wally, Personas skins can be periodically swapped with Personas Rotator, a firefox extension that automatically rotates and loads your Personas skins. Loaded skins are chosen from within collection of your choose, you can log into GetPersonas.com and select your own favorites, the add-on will try to rotate your My Favorites personas. If you have no My Favorites personas the rotation is completely random through different collections. More»
Posted in Firefox, Open-Source | Comments Off on Personas Rotator Periodically rotates your Firefox Skins
Looking for a media player to playback your video converted to open WebM with Miro Video Converter, then grab Moovida media player. Open Source Moovida media player formerly known as Elisa is one of the first media players to boast support of the open source VP8 codec.
Moovida also supports wma, flac, flv, mpeg4, matroska(mkv), Theora and many more file formats. Its a free download for Windows and Linux. A Mac version will be out this summer. Ubuntu Linux users can install via the Software Center or using the terminal: sudo apt-get install moovida
Posted in Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows | 1 Comment »
Miro Video Converter, a useful open source tool for converting videos to several kinds of formats – including Ogg Theora was released a two months ago together with overhauled Miro 3.
Today the development team has released Miro Video Converter 2.0, with support for Google’s new open WebM (vp8) video format, so users can quietly convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for the Android and iPhone. Miro developers believe that “WebM can help us all escape from the traps of closed, patented video formats”. More»
Posted in Open-Source, Windows | Comments Off on Miro Video Converter 2.0 adds support for open WebM (vp8) video format
Mozilla hasdecided to rebrand Weave Sync as Firefox Sync – but what’s is in a name? Easy to guess, Firefox Sync delivers the message, it sounds like synchronization is an in-built feature in Firefox, though it remains a plug-in. More»
Posted in Firefox, Open-Source | Comments Off on Mozilla rebrands Weave Sync as Firefox Sync
The next major Firefox update, Firefox 4 (Firefox 3.7 is out of bounds) will feature an in-built web developers tool called Web Inspector. Though in its early stages this utility can help you to closely inspect elements that are being displayed on the current web page. Analogous to DOM inspector or Firebug inspector, in-built Inspector will support rulers & guides, palettes, layers, a graphical highlighter, it will be fast and pretty but its certainly not a return of DOMi into Firefox says Rob Cambell, the Mozilla developer leading the Inspector development. More»
Posted in Firefox, Open-Source | 2 Comments »
