Cheese is a simple open source, Linux, webcam application that can help you take snapshots and video. Written as part of Google’s 2007 Summer of Code, Cheese is almost a carbon copy of Mac OS X’s Photobooth.
Cheese has as its foundation, the well known open source GStreamer library and GTK. Cheese gives an added value your webcams as most webcams don’t even have to be configured. You just need to attach your old USB webcams, kick-off the intuitive GUI picture/video taker. More»
DownloadHelper is a Firefox extension offers and easy and alternative way to download your favourite video from sites like MySpace, Google video, DailyMotion, YouTube etc. It also extracts audio and picture galleries.
DownloadHelper signals to you with an animated icon what video you could download; by simply clicking on the menu beside the DownloadHelper icon. If you find yourself on a page with a video you could instantly download that video using the menu of DownloadHelper. More»
After much talk about the Gphone, Google’s Engineering Director, Steve Horowitz says “there is actually no Gphone” instead there is the so-called Android platform that would permit thousands of people to create Gphones. On this video Steve together with Sergey Brin talk about the availability of the SDK(now available for download), Open Source and the demo applications on the Android platform. More»
Talking about how for the KDE team has gone with the building of the so-called KDE4: Plasma, here comes a video by Aaron Seigo (People Behind KDE) on the final stages leading to the KDE 4.0 release.
A preview of Containments in Plasma, and other status updates, by Aaron Seigo.
Now it is possible, up to now it was not, with Skype 2.0 for Linux, Linux people join the rest of the VoIP (Voice over IP) world with video too, so get your web cams ready cause you can now show who you really are whilst chatting. Skype finally added video chat to the Linux version. Its still a Beta but it is very welcomed. So quickly download and enjoy video chatting;
— Free video call with anyone in your contact list.
— Group chat with up to 100 people.
— Conference call with up to nine others.
what video you could download; by simply clicking on the menu beside the DownloadHelper icon. If you find yourself on a page with a video you could instantly download that video using the menu of DownloadHelper. 
