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
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
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
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
Google’s Lars Rasmussen announced yesterday at Google I/O developer conference that Google Wave is now open to everyone, it no longer requires an invitation. If you have a Google account, simply visit wave.google.com to wave.
“Anyone on a wave can edit or reply to any section, keeping discussion in context with relevant content. Everyone’s typing shows up instantly, and Google Wave lets new participants get up to speed quickly with organized discussions and playback to see how a wave evolved.”
Google Wave is also available in Google Apps, businesses, and organizations now have an extra communication tool.
via [Google Operating System]
