The fellow behind Android, Google’s mobile phone, Andy Rubin together with other members of the crew talk about the so-called Gphone. Basically, Android is a Google’s term for a Linux operating system, desktop and applications. Little is known about Android as these guys operate under a cloak of secrecy. The video tries to get us a little closer.
Whilst Google on one hand comes up on the 12 of November with a Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers, on the other it pairs up with Sun Microsystems to provide a matching developer environment for Android based on the Sun’s Netbeans Java developer tools.
A better YouTube is a new Firefox extension that bundles up YouTube Greasemonkey scripts (allows you to change how your favourite pages behave and look) into a single and more convenient package. It help you to customize YouTube video( not only), for better viewing.
To install follow the famous three step process for installing Firefox plugins.
1. Get the new Firefox extension Better YouTube
2. If you have default security settings on your browser, you should be asked for a “permit” to use this extension. After adding this site to the list of Trusted sites, click Install Now.
3. Once successfully installed, you’ll be asked to Restart Firefox.
For now Better YouTube does not have a toolbar icon like Gmail, so each time you have to customize your YouTube video you have to go the extensions Preferences dialog(Tools > Add-ons > Better YouTube). This makes it a little boring, nonetheless it is a try-able plugin.
After installing Better YouTube, tweak around with some of it features, like turning off comments and related video or disable Autoplay. You must refresh your video page to see changes.
Better YouTube is released under the GNU/GPL License
Xvidcap; The most classic screen recorder for Linux, Ubuntu. Xvidcap records both video and audio. It uses the ffmeg tool for video recording while the audio is taken from the system’s interface(need a working microphone).
Xvidcap is very easy to use. It records everything that occurs in that little red box. By clicking on lock button the red box can be unlocked, resized and repositioned anywhere you want.
To change the default settings right-click the movie-counter and choose Preferences. There you can change many default settings including the output format, say from MPEG4 to Flash.
Xvidcap gets your job done even though you could find a few bugs and still needs some improvements. Contact the developer if you have good solutions to propose.
Xvidcap is available for download in Debian and Source code. It is released under the GNU General Public License
Another worth mentioning screen recording tool is the vnc2swf for ShockWave Flash (swf) format. The VNC server transfers the graphic content of an X-Windows session through a TCP/IP connection. vnc2swf is usually used in remote maintenance. Since vnc2swf is also capable of recording screen images that it compiles into the flash format, it can also be used for creating screen video.
vnc2swf has one advantage; it is platform independent. You can record a video on any platform that has the VNC Server. The tools does not necessarily need to be active on the computer whose screen recorded.
vnc2swf is available for download in a Python and C versions(disadvantage) and it is released under the GNU General Public License.
Updated 04/12/2012
Other Linux Alternatives Kazam Screencaster
Install Kazam in Ubuntu: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/unstable-series
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kazam
Wink
Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats.
Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals
DemoRecoder – A screen recorder for Linux. Output format: Flash, AVI, MPEG 1, 2, 4; License: Commercial
France’s Internet Service Provider(ISP) Orange adopts OpenID. The news is a recent one and comes straight from the Digital ID conference in San Francisco. It simply says, Orange the big French ISP with over 40million subscribers around the world adopt the OpenID registration standard. This is a major move by the French operator to lower the cost of password or account management by embracing the Open Source OpenID registration/classentification standards.
So what is OpenID all about? More»
