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Virtual Volumes View

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Free indexing app Virtual Volumes View (VVV) helps you keep track of exactly which file is located on which of those numbered DVDs. Once you’ve let VVV take a look at each of your discs, it can show you them in a physical view (each disc and its contents), a virtual view (one giant file system), or let you simply search through files

vvvv-win

vvv-lin

Ant Movie Catalog

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Ant Movie Catalog is a free (really free, i.e. the source code is available) program made to manage your collection of movies on DVD, CD (VideoCD, DivX, …) and tapes.

AMC

If you use GNU/Linux rather than Windows, you can try to use WinE to get this program running; some people notified me that this was working. You can also check Moviefly, which is a complete rewrite of Ant Movie Catalog made with Python.

Moviefly stores information on video media files, including title, actors, genre, descriptions, comments, rating, director, producer, picture, languages, subtitles, video- and audio format, video- and audio bitrates, resolution, framerate, file size and media type. Technical information can be automatically extracted, descriptive information on a title may be downloaded from the internet.

Moviefly

openSUSE 10.3 released

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Features added to OpenSuse 11.0 since version 10.3, the latest stable version, include Linux kernel 2.6.25, Xen 3.2 virtualisation, windowing engine X.Org 7.3.openSUSE 11.0 includes two branches of KDE — the KDE 3.5.x series, which is the stable and older KDE series that many openSUSE users are already familiar with, and the cutting edge KDE4. GNOME users will find a lot to like in openSUSE 11.0. openSUSE’s GNOME is very close to upstream GNOME, because Novell and openSUSE want to do as much work as possible in the upstream release. OpenOffice.org 2.4 provides openSUSE users with a top-notch office suite with a word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentation tool (Impress), and drawing software (Draw). Here’s some of the improvements you’ll see in openSUSE 11.0:

  • Rewritten installer that makes installation even easier
  • Faster and easier package management
  • Easier system updates with PackageKit
  • Easier 3-D effects with Compi z-Fusion and CCSM
  • KDE 4 – The next generation KDE Desktop
  • GNOME 2.22 – Latest and greatest GNOME release
  • Firefox 3.0 – openSUSE ships with Firefox 3.0 beta 5, will update to 3.0 final
  • OpenOffice.org 2.4 – Latest OpenOffice.org, with dozens of improvments and new features, including better VBA support, 3-D transitions in Impress, and import support for Microsoft Office 2007 document formats.
  • Banshee 1.0 – Major update to Novell-sponsored multimedia application.
  • Tasque – Simple and elegant to-do application.
  • NetworkManager 0.7 – Cutting edge release of NetworkManager, which includes support for EV-DO/UMTS cards.
  • PulseAudio – Better sound management in GNOME.
  • Linux kernel 2.6.25 – Most recent major release of the Linux kernel
  • Nearly every application has been updated since 10.3
  • More than 200 new features specific to openSUSE

CherrPal

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Upstart CherryPal announcing that it’s about to bust out a cloud computer that’ll consume 2 watts of power. CherryPal uses for Freescale‘s new 400MHz MPC5121e.mobileGT processor. The MPC5121e processor is built on Power Architecture technology. Manufactured on Freescale’s 90-nanometer low-power CMOS technology, the MPC5121e device is designed to deliver exceptional multimedia performance. The processor is built around an efficient triple-core architecture consisting of a Power Architecture core, a 3D-graphics processor core, and a CD-quality audio processor core.

Specification:

  • 256 MB DDR
  • 4GB internal NAND flash memory
  • 50GB online
  • 802.11b/g WiFi
  • Ethernet
  • 2 USB
  • 32-bit Truecolor display, 720p (1280×720) and WXGA (1366×768)
  • 1.3 x 4 x 6 inches (size of a paperback), 10 ounces

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Google Gadgets for Linux

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Google Desktop is a desktop search application that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. But the Linux version has always been a bit behind the curve. While all three clients let you search the web or files on your computer, the Mac and Windows versions have long supported Google Gadgets, which are desktop widgets that let you do everything from checking the weather to controlling your media player software.

Now Google has released an update that brings gadgets to Google Desktop for Linux.

ggl

AcetoneISO 2.0

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

AcetoneISO 2.0, a free, open-source application for Linux systems, gives you complete control over your disk images and CD/DVD mounting without having to touch the command line once.

AcetoneISO2

Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta for Linux

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named “Astro,” introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements. This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content. Once you’ve installed Flash Player 10 beta, you can view interactive demos.

Alliance – Private P2P File-Sharing Networks

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Alliance, a free, open-source, cross-platform peer-to-peer application, takes nearly all of the security and privacy concerns out of peer-to-peer file sharing by putting you in charge of your own network. The dead-simple interface lets you add Alliance-using friends to your network and files on your system to share, and you can search, chat, and download like any other peer-to-peer app. The traffic between clients is encrypted at a low level, but you can apply an experimental SSL layer.

Alliance

Linux Filesystem Hierarchy

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Cool and beautiful representation of the hierarchy which I found linuxconfig.org site.

Linux FS Hierarchy

VirtualBox

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Sun xVM VirtualBox is an X86 virtualization software package originally developed by German software company Innotek GmbH, now a product of Sun’s xVM family, suitable for both enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

VirtualBox