tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97380762024-03-14T01:28:17.295+05:30Open Source Applications for WindowsAll about the Open Source Applications which I use...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger113120tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-37111466019511211662015-12-30T03:12:00.000+05:302015-12-30T03:12:26.706+05:30Simple animated screen captures using LICEcap<h2>
Simple Animated Screen Captures: <a href="http://www.cockos.com/licecap/" target="_blank">LICEcap</a></h2>
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LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below). </div>
<br />LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance.<div>
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Github Mirror: <a href="https://github.com/justinfrankel/licecap">https://github.com/justinfrankel/licecap</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-19471523882516852372015-10-04T12:52:00.003+05:302015-10-04T12:52:51.047+05:30ShareX - Screen grabber, snipper, recorder, screen caster, uploader<h2>
<a href="https://getsharex.com/" target="_blank">ShareX</a> i<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, arial, nimbussansl, liberationsans, freesans, clean, sans-serif, 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">s an open source program that lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or instantly upload them to over 40 different file hosting services. In addition to taking screenshots, it can upload images, text files and all other different file types.</span></h2>
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Additional tools to make certain tasks more efficient.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Color picker: Allows you to select color from color box or screen and provide values of RGB, Hue, Saturation and Brightness from selected color.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Screen color picker: As the name suggests, allows you to retrieve the color from anywhere on the screen and copies it to clipboard.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Image editor: Based on <a href="http://getgreenshot.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4078c0; text-decoration: none;">Greenshot</a> image editor. It offers functions such as ability to add annotations, highlighting or obfuscations to the screenshot. It allows to draw basic shapes (rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows and freehand) and add text to a screenshot.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Image effects: Allows to apply over 37 different image effects with their own settings to image. Edited images can be saved in PNG or other formats.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hash check: Allows you to check/compare file hash values.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">IRC client</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">DNS changer: Allows you to quickly change computer DNS settings with popular DNS servers such as <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4078c0; text-decoration: none;">Google DNS</a>.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">QR code: Open QR code window which you can enter text to get QR code of it. You can copy QR code image to your clipboard or save as file.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ruler: Allows you to get X, Y, width, height, distance and angle information on screen.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Automate: Allows you to write simple script to automate mouse and keyboard commands.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Index folder: Allows you to share the index of a folder contents by uploading the index of the selected folder as text, html or xml.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Image combiner</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video thumbnailer</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">FTP client: Opens a basic FTP client you interface for the currently configured FTP account.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tweet message: Allows you to post message to Twitter.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Monitor test: Allows you to render different colors on the screen which provides you the opportunity to test for bleeding and dead pixels on LCD monitors.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-34703768002339847262013-04-15T20:55:00.000+05:302013-04-15T20:56:49.040+05:30Whonix: Anonymous General Purpose Operating System <br />
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Whonix is an anonymous general purpose operating system based on Virtual Box, Debian GNU/Linux and Tor. By Whonix design, IP and DNS leaks are impossible. Not even malware with root rights can find out the user's real IP/location.</div>
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This is because Whonix consists of two (virtual) machines. One machine solely runs Tor and acts as a gateway, which we call Whonix-Gateway. The other machine, which we call Whonix-Workstation, is on a completely isolated network. Only connections through Tor are possible.</div>
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This is only a very brief introduction. See <a class="" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/Documentation/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(0, 119, 170); background-color: transparent; color: #006699; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Documentation</a> and/or <a class="" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/Design/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(0, 119, 170); background-color: transparent; color: #006699; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technical Design</a> for a more comprehensive description, security features and threat model. To find out how secure/anonymous Whonix is, see <a class="" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/Technical%20Introduction/#security-overview" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(0, 119, 170); background-color: transparent; color: #006699; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Security Overview</a>.</div>
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Whonix is produced independently from the Tor® anonymity software and carries no guarantee from The Tor Project about quality, suitability or anything else.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-42190224969999185102013-03-01T00:25:00.001+05:302013-03-01T00:26:37.812+05:30Saladin: Open-Source, Dual-Pane File Manager With Focus On ConvenienceSource: <a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/saladin-open-source-dual-pane-file-manager-with-focus-on-convenience/">http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/saladin-open-source-dual-pane-file-manager-with-focus-on-convenience/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/saladin-open-source-dual-pane-file-manager-with-focus-on-convenience/">Saladin: Open-Source, Dual-Pane File Manager With Focus On Convenience</a>: <br />
File Managers come in all shapes and sizes, and we’ve already covered quite a lot of them for our readers, including <a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/free-double-commander-is-an-alternative-of-total-commander/">Double Commander</a>, <a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/bru-file-manager-includes-ftp-client-creates-compressed-archives-and-sync-files-folders/">Bru File Manager</a>, and <a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/multi-commander-customizable-tabbed-file-manager-with-dual-panel-layout/">Multi Commander</a>, just to name a few. <strong>Saladin</strong> is another file manager with a dual-pane interface to let you easily manage your files and transfer them between different directories without having to open two Explorer windows. Saladin also has a host of other features such as Windows Shell integration, built-in file viewer, file archiving, FTP etc. Read on for details.<br />
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Saladin’s interface is pretty much what you’d expect from any dual-pane file manager. It contains buttons for almost every supported feature at the top in a ribbon-like interface, allowing you to quickly access them but at the same time making things a bit cluttered. As mentioned earlier, you can open multiple directories side by side in the two available panes. The navigation bar at the top of each pane lets you independantly navigate its contents.<br />
<a href="http://cloud.addictivetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Saladin-1-1.png"><img alt="Saladin (1) (1)" height="213" src="http://cloud.addictivetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Saladin-1-1.png" width="320" /></a><br />
The navigation bar also houses buttons for easily switching between your disk drives. You can also move to parent, previous or root folders in the focus pane using the arrow buttons in the right edge.<br />
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The View section of the top toolbar allows to toggle hidden files, open the same folder in both panes, or simply swap the panes. Apart from simple copy and move operations, you can click the drop down arrow next to both these options and select further commands including copy/move to target directory and clone/rename in source directory. The select mask and its related buttons come in handy to quickly select or deselect all items. The right part of the toolbar contains buttons for some more features. For instance, clicking Open Console launches the Command Prompt in the selected folder, Pack lets you archive a ZIP file, Show Size displays the disk space allocated by the selected item, and Search allows to look for a particular file within the target directory.<br />
<img alt="Saladin_Top_Right" border="0" height="173" src="http://cloud.addictivetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Saladin_Top_Right.png" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Saladin_Top_Right" width="320" /><br />
The Pack To ZIP feature is fairly handy to compress and archive your desired file with a single click, though the application doesn’t give any option to configure compression ratio or other parameters.<br />
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During testing, we weren’t able to find the integrated viewer for text and image files that the developer has advertised on Saladin’s webpage. Other than that, it’s a versatile, user-friendly file manager that works exactly as it is supposed to. The application works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 8.<br />
<a href="http://saladin.mimec.org/">Download Saladin</a><br />
Read <a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/saladin-open-source-dual-pane-file-manager-with-focus-on-convenience/">Saladin: Open-Source, Dual-Pane File Manager With Focus On Convenience</a> by <a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/author/waqas/" rel="author">Waqas Ahmed</a> on <a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/">AddictiveTips - Tech tips to make you smarter</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-33229007455185805092010-07-19T10:28:00.001+05:302010-07-19T10:29:09.817+05:30The writer's editor - TextRoom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://textroom.sourceforge.net/images/textroom.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://textroom.sourceforge.net/images/textroom.png" width="200" /></a></div><a href="http://code.google.com/p/textroom/">TextRoom </a>is a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Writer">writer</a>'s editor for distraction free writing and editing.<br />
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<a href="http://code.google.com/p/textroom/"><b>TextRoom</b> </a>is a free (as in freedom and free beer) full screen <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Text editor">text editor</a> developed especially with writers in mind. TextRoom and all other similar editors share one goal: to get you writing right away by providing distraction free environment to your liking, as well as familiar set of keyboard shortcuts to control its behavior. If you don't feel comfortable already with your editor of choice, you may find it useful. <br />
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The list of features is long and some of them are:<br />
<ul><li><span style="font-size: x-small;">basic <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Rich Text Format">rich text</a> editing: bold, italic, underline, and changing font, font size and color </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">configurable statusbar colors and fonts </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">configurable editor width and height </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">configurable behavior: full-screen on/off, auto save, flow mode (disable delete and backspace keys), load last document on startup, remember position in text for the last file </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">insert current time and/or date in a configurable fashion </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">live word count for all text and selected text </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">live character count option </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">configurable page count option </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">live clock on statusbar </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">targets: setting deadline from a graphical calendar </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">targets: setting a target word count </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">targets: setting short deadlines to write in minutes </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">keyboard shortcuts for the most common tasks (if you start the program for the first time, just press F1 for help) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">typing sounds similar to a typewriter which can be disabled </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">cross-platform, TextRoom has a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Windows">Windows</a> installer now and it's possible to compile on Mac too. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Spellcheck with hunspell (US English and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tr-spell/" rel="nofollow">Turkish</a>, for now.). </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Universal <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Linux">Linux</a> installer. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Printing support. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Background images. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Transparent statusbar. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">File association with .txr files. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Restoring all settings to defaults. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Plain text">Plain text</a> only or rich text options. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Scratchpad. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Line indent. </span></li>
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<div class="zemanta-related">Link: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/textroom/">http://code.google.com/p/textroom/</a></div><div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;">Related articles: </h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/24/distraction-free-text-editor-zen-edit/" rel="nofollow">Distraction Free Text Editor Zen Edit</a> (ghacks.net)</li>
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One significant use would be to capture web based trainings which cannot be saved and are available only for a short period of time. <br />
Its definitely not fancy, with lots of features but will work well for easy screen recording.<br />
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I am not sure if given a choice they will start using <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/">Thunderbird</a>, but <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Notes" rel="wikipedia" title="IBM Lotus Notes">Lotus Notes</a> still is the favourite with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata%20Consultancy%20Services" id="aptureLink_hMKjQ7Ryj8">TCS</a>.<br />
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Mentioning about OpenOffice, there seems to be a much leaner and faster fork called <a href="http://www.go-oo.org/discover/">Go-OO</a>. I have not personally tried <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-oo" id="aptureLink_XEiE7LiTcL">Go-OO</a> but will do that shortly.<br />
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Going open source proves once again that where there is a will to save, there is always a open source app.<br />
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Speaking of which TCS has tried to contribute to the open source world in its own way. Check out the <a href="http://wanem.sourceforge.net/">WANEM</a> and <a href="http://jensor.sourceforge.net/">Jensor</a> projects in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://sourceforge.net/" rel="homepage" title="SourceForge.net">SourceForge</a>.<br />
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Other organizations can take a few pages out of TCS' experiences and try replacing some expensive applications with its open source counterparts.<br />
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Way to go TCS!<br />
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We would not have needed his help had the subtitle been packaged and put up online somewhere (usually <a href="http://opensubtitles.org/">http://opensubtitles.org</a>). And neither would we have read this post. So here I went hunting for one of the simplest and easiest and above all open source subtitle editor for videos or movies.<br />
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It was on this worthwhile quest that I found <a href="http://www.jubler.org/">Jubler</a>. A very simple, innocuous looking application, which at first glance might not look too useful. Truth is that like the rest of the apps I try without reading its faq or help, I was not able to figure out a few of the options which Andy said he needs to have to be able to use it. But a quick read of the simple FAQ answered all my doubts and was enough for me to start adding and editing subtitles.<br />
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Jubler lets you add subtitles section by section of the movie. Lets you slide and sort the subtitles around the movie and also offset them if required. We can hear the dialogues and even play the movie while adding or editing the subtitles. Jubler, needs the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/" rel="homepage" title="MPlayer">mplayer</a> video player to be also installed in your system to play the video. Mplayer luckily is open source and pretty famous as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://wiki.videolan.org/Libvlc" rel="homepage" title="VLC media player">VLC</a>. Its not mandatory that you have to have mplayer installed, cause you get to hear the audio track of the movie in Jubler itself and the start and end of a subtitle section is identified with snapshots of the section being edited.<br />
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Well Andy has got his app but when is he going to add the subtitles? That is something we will have to wait for, hopefully not long! Till then happy movie watching and happier and quick subtitle editing with <a href="http://www.jubler.org/">Jubler</a>.<br />
Update: Andy has got me the subtitle and is so proficient with Jubler, he has plans for adding subtitles to many more movies. Thanks to Jubler he is a happy subtitle editor and me a happy audience for his movie collection!<br />
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This could be helpful when we are trying to download pictures from albums hosted on sites which don't have a download option.<br /><br />The best way would be to start using <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/" title="Firefox" rel="homepage">FireFox</a>.<br />And then use any of the following addons/extensions.<br />Listed below are few of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source" title="Open source" rel="wikipedia">open source</a> options to achieve the same.<br />1. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006">Video DownloadHelper</a><br />2. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/220">FlashGot</a><br />3. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3104">BatchDownload</a><br />4. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2503">Image Download</a><br /><p>You could even try <a href="http://www.httrack.com/">HTTrack </a>with some changes to extract only the pictures from the downloaded offline webiste. </p><fieldset class="zemanta-related"><legend class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles<br /></legend><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5145074/save-images-extension-saves-all-linked-images">Save Images Extension Saves All Linked Images [Downloads]</a> (lifehacker.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/01/07/open-source-free-download-manager-v3-adds-tons-of-new-features/">Open Source Free Download Manager v3 adds tons of new features</a> (downloadsquad.com)</li></ul></fieldset> <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/bc20ec58-1d46-4fd5-bf96-c20318ea6c19/" title="Zemified by Zemanta"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_c.png?x-id=bc20ec58-1d46-4fd5-bf96-c20318ea6c19" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-2998250468052795722009-01-27T06:24:00.013+05:302009-02-05T01:58:50.635+05:30Touchfreeze - Freeze Laptop Touchpad While Typing<p class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 212px;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Touchpad.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Touchpad.jpg/202px-Touchpad.jpg" alt="Touchpad and a pointing stick on an IBM Laptop" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" height="145" width="202" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Touchpad.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></p>Annoyed when you are typing a document and accidentally the palm of your hand brushes the touchpad, changing the position of the cursor in your document or accidentally clicking on an option. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/">TouchFreeze</a> is a simple utility for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS" title="Windows" rel="homepage">Windows</a> NT/2000/XP that solves this problem. It automatically disables touchpad while you are typing text. Like syndaemon on x-windows.<br /><br />I had numerous instances when while typing on my <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop" title="Laptop" rel="wikipedia">laptop</a> my palm or the stray finger brushes on the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchpad" title="Touchpad" rel="wikipedia">touchpad</a> and moves the cursor or clicks a different location of the screen. This can easily become a irritating nag for people like me who use a usual keyboard at work and the laptop at home or outside. That was when I found <a href="http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/">Touchfreeze</a>. As its name suggest <a href="http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/">Touchfreeze</a> will freeze or disable the system touchpad only when we are typing or using the keyboard.<br /><br /><br />This app is hosted on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://code.google.com/" title="Google Code" rel="homepage">Google Code</a>. In case you would like to search for some interesting open source options try searching for your application here. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://sourceforge.net/" title="SourceForge.net" rel="homepage">Sourceforge</a> is still my first preference and continues to host some of the best open source apps.<br /><br />This app has been released under the GNUGPL and the source is available.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">For a spam and ad free clean system move to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source" title="Open source" rel="wikipedia">Open Source</a> applications.</span><br /><br /> <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/a70dd923-2b17-40ca-9d32-e65eb6757dd0/" title="Zemified by Zemanta"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_c.png?x-id=a70dd923-2b17-40ca-9d32-e65eb6757dd0" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-55053361825958823412008-09-10T10:01:00.011+05:302008-09-10T12:53:14.512+05:30Transform Firefox into Google Chrome<span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 78%;">image courtesy <a href="http://lifehacker.com/">Lifehacker</a></span><br /><img src="http://lifehacker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/09/chrome-fox.png" height="110" width="220"><br />The new browser <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome">Google Chrome</a> from the stables of Google is out and both me and many others are <a href="http://phoneboy.com/2483/what-i-like-about-google-chrome">raving</a> about its <a href="http://jtame05.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/wow-google-chrome-is-fast/">speed</a>, <a href="http://www.rocketnews.com/topic/technology/Google-Chrome/">features and most of all its looks</a>. There is no doubt that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink">web browser</a> market is only going to get hotter with the upcoming releases of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8">IE8</a> and <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1">Firefox3.1</a><br /><br />But then Google Chrome will <a href="http://www.wizardstower.co.uk/wordpress/2008/09/02/google-chrome-released-and-broken/">still have to work</a><a href="http://www.wizardstower.co.uk/wordpress/2008/09/02/google-chrome-released-and-broken/"> hard</a> to reach the capabilities that <a href="http://www.firefox.com/" title="Mozilla Firefox" rel="homepage" class="zem_slink">Firefox</a> has when compared to its rich collection of addons, themes and flexibility. Till then we can definitely try and get the same look of the new Google chrome in Firefox.<br /><br />Just as I was getting hooked to Chrome I realized that I would like to get the same features in my current Firefox version too. I went around the blogs and yes found a huge amount of information on getting this done, but not one single place to round it all up together. Also there were a few issues with the existing suggestions for the conversion. After tweaking with existing implementations and reusing others I was finally able to get to the closest implementation of Chrome in Firefox according to me. This is how my final Firefox browser looks like after all the changes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYWpI_J08iG2PpIxjyoMvXv-8DTxGmi7Dqu61YKtAAHFgef8JzgOsQlH-wqyDDPimhFDyUKF2mA8ml8L3qO0S9aO_u-i9ssOQ_0BBl_8kYuDyLozYMmHuqVqfRJ3PLVFzM3bH1MQ/s1600-h/FirefoxInChrome.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYWpI_J08iG2PpIxjyoMvXv-8DTxGmi7Dqu61YKtAAHFgef8JzgOsQlH-wqyDDPimhFDyUKF2mA8ml8L3qO0S9aO_u-i9ssOQ_0BBl_8kYuDyLozYMmHuqVqfRJ3PLVFzM3bH1MQ/s200/FirefoxInChrome.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244252015559085746" border="0"></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Theme:</span><br />To start off I hunted for a theme which would closely resemble Chrome and finally found <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8782">Chromifox</a>. 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To get the shade fixed I would have to edit each of those tab images which would have required more time than a flip and had to be sidestepped. Maybe the original author would be faster on this issue.<br /><br />I am attaching the updated/tweaked Firefox Chromifox theme jar <a href="http://www.zshare.net/download/18510238c67b44f2/">here</a> for you to download(please download and install it at your own risk) . You will have to drag and drop it to the themes(addon) window in Firefox. <span style="font-style: italic;">I would like to mention that I take no credit at all for this theme</span>. This theme was designed and developed by <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/1639897">falconer</a> and he has designed a really beautiful and excellent theme for which all the credit should go to him alone.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tab bar on top of the window, like Google Chrome:</span><br />Install the <a href="http://userstyles.org/styles/10253">Stylish</a> Firefox addon. The tab bar on top of the Firefox window is already included in this addon which will move the tabs to the top of the Firefox menu bar.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hide the menu bar (similar to Google Chrome which has no menubar):</span><br />Install the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4762">Hide Menubar</a> Firefox addon to hide the menubar. The menubar can be activated anytime by pressing the ALT key.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Autohide status bar:</span><br /><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1530">Autohide Status bar</a> addon will auto hide the Firefox status bar at the bottom of the browser window. The status bar will be displayed only when you hover cursor on a link or during page load.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The remaining:</span><br />The rest like <span style="font-style: italic;">highlighting the site name</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">displaying the download status</span> of a file at the bottom of the browser window, <span style="font-style: italic;">speed dial</span> etc... can be separately installed. More details on enabling Chrome's best features in Firefox can be found <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5044518/enable-chromes-best-features-in-firefox">here</a>.<br /><br />A complete Firefox addon (<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8790">Chrome Pacakge</a>) is also available, but has a few glitches to it still, which I am hopeful will be resolved very soon.<br /><br />Hope this brings you closer to both Firefox and Chrome. Both are wonderful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source" title="Open source" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink">open source</a> browsers and both beautiful at that.<br /><br />Let me know in case you have any suggestions for improvement.<br /> <br /><br /><div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/6518d7ed-3ded-4dac-9993-fd9772a152be/" title="Zemified by Zemanta"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_c.png?x-id=6518d7ed-3ded-4dac-9993-fd9772a152be" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-86001861394112079622008-05-27T11:46:00.002+05:302008-06-14T09:04:13.103+05:30Open Source Video Editing tool in Windows?<span style="font-weight: bold;">Are there any open source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_editing" title="Video editing" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">video editing</a> tools in <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/default.mspx" title="Microsoft Windows" rel="homepage" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">Windows</a>?</span><br /><br />I saw this <a href="http://ostatic.com/162991-questions/video-editing-tool-ss">query on OStatic</a> and realised that there is a plethora of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">GPL</a> tools on Windows to edit video (in avi, mp4 etc. formats).<br /><br />Best of all most of them are also being currently used by professionals too.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jahshaka.org/" title="Jahshaka" rel="homepage" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">Jahshaka</a> which has been around for quite a few years now has matured to a very stable and active version. It supports some really useful features like edit, effects in real time, animate with unlimited features, paint and design on moving video, support for any format at any resolution etc... In case you would like to try your hands on a software with pro like features, Jahshaka would be your first attempt.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.avidemux.org/">Avidemux</a> another interesting front runner in the video editing stage seems to be very simple and user friendly. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_editing" title="Film editing" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">Cutting</a>, capturing analog video, command line usage, job list support (also batch editing), converting to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD" title="DVD" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">DVD</a> and DVD to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave" title="Audio Video Interleave" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">AVI</a> are some of its nifty features. Like other video editors it too uses multi threading to speed up the editing process.<br /><br />One of the classics that I had come across a few years back was <a href="http://www.virtualdub.org/">Virtauldub</a>, which has matured over this period to be one of the most powerful video pre and post processing tool. 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Where as the same in Unix/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">Linux</a> would be a single command on the prompt '<span style="font-style: italic;">ps -ef'. </span>There are more that I can go on and on about but would leave that to the <a href="http://coconuter.blogspot.com/2008/04/windows-vs-linux-comparison-and-review.html">two communities who are already at loggerheads</a> on who is better than the other.<br /><br />I personally feel Linux is much better and sooner or later would become close to what Windows is to us today. Did you know that the beautiful Mac is also another version of Unix? Very hard to believe isnt it?<br /><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cygwin_X11_rootless_WinXP.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Cygwin_X11_rootless_WinXP.png/202px-Cygwin_X11_rootless_WinXP.png" alt="Cygwin" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.cygwin.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cygwin</span></a> which is GNU licensed ,<span style="font-style: italic;"> is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux-like environment for Windows</span>. It consists of two parts:<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-style: italic;">A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.</span> </li></ul><ul style="font-style: italic;"><li>A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel.</li></ul>Cygwin will operate and run on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_architecture" title="X86 architecture" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">x86 based</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">systems</a> for both 32 bit and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64" title="X86-64" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">64 bit</a> versions of Windows, with the exception of <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/windowsce/default.aspx" title="Windows CE" rel="homepage" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">Windows CE</a>. Hence most Intel based systems with Windows will support Cygwin.<br /><br />But Cygwin has caveats too :<br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" > <li>Cygwin is <b>not</b> a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application <em>from source</em> if you want it to run on Windows. </li> <li>Cygwin is <b>not</b> a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX ® functionality, like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps <em>from source</em> if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality.</li></span><br />Nonetheless you will be surprised with the likeness Cygwin has to Unix/Linux.<br />Cygwin provides a very simple way of trying out Unix and its repository of powerful tools on Windows without having to really install or format the hard drive. It is very helpful for people who want to try and have a look at Unix or Linux before they jump to Linux or who would like the additional tools in Unix/Linux on Windows too.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Installation:</span> The Cygwin installation is simple with the install getting initiated from a small setup app which in turn gives you the option of downloading the packages of your choices from a list of hosted locations. And in case you are not very sure of the packages just go with the default and it should be ok. If for some reason you would like to install Cygwin on a computer without access to the internet, you could reuse the package downloaded locally by copying them to the other computer and selecting them as the source for install.<br /><br />I had always been a fan of Linux and had the opportunity to hang on with it though much of my personal work is on the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/default.mspx" title="Microsoft Windows" rel="homepage" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">Windows OS</a>. Over the years I have come to learn of the huge benefits of having <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" title="Unix" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">Unix</a>/Linux tools around. The tools in Unix and Linux are one of the biggest reasons that people stick to them. Being a person who codes on Unix boxes and executes them on UNIX systems it was hard to accept that we don't have an option to use them in Windows. Tools like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">grep, find, ls, lynx, vi, vim, ps, kill</span> and many many more are missing from Windows. I am sure that these tools might look a bit alarming at first because in the Unix/Linux world most of the time these are run directly from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_interface" title="Command line interface" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">command prompt</a>, but I can assure you that me and most of my friends would happily give way to these in Windows if given an option.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Related Links:</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://ostatic.com/82666-software-opensource/cygwin">OStatic review</a> </span>on Cygwin</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://winik.sourceforge.net/">Winik</a>:</span> a Cygwin/Unix distro, for Windows platforms</li></ul><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin: 5px 0pt; width: 100%;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Zemified by Zemanta"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixie.png?x-id=ac4a650f-769c-4934-928e-3c96fa861702" style="border: medium none ; float: right;" /></a></div><span style="position: absolute; right: 0px; bottom: 0px;" id="ResizeStatus"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-18654227602693688872008-04-24T03:25:00.002+05:302008-04-24T11:46:27.655+05:30Ecstatic about OStatic.com<img src="http://ostatic.com/themes/B7/imgs/h1.gif" />About Ostatic:<span style="font-style: italic;"> Our goal is to increase the adoption of Open Source Software by helping users find viable projects and applications that fulfill specific needs, evaluate them against available alternatives and collaborate with their network of trusted peers.</span><br /><br />What I really liked about <a href="http://ostatic.com/">OStatic</a>.com was that they really do a very good job of comparing proprietary and open source products. Their posts are very relevant and contemporary which I think is a major requirement in the Open Source World! <a href="http://ostatic.com/">OStatic</a> is part of the famed <a href="http://gigaom.com/">GigaOM </a>Network. Definitely quality stuff.<br /><br />I have been following its post for the past few days and enjoyed reading them a lot. The latest as I write is on <a href="http://ostatic.com/159547-blog/opinion-shakeups-ahead-for-yahoo-emc-and-hadoop">Hadoop</a>, something which me and my friend have been bantering about for sometime. <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/">Hadoop</a> is something which I believe will in many ways turn the growth of future computing. Hearing about <a href="http://ostatic.com/159547-blog/opinion-shakeups-ahead-for-yahoo-emc-and-hadoop">Hadoop </a>on <a href="http://ostatic.com/">OStatic</a>, shows to me a maturity on Open Source topics and knowledge of future trends which would be usually a bit hard to capture (more so when we are talking about the Open Source world)<br /><br />The <a href="http://ostatic.com/searchtag/all/project">Software section</a> with each open source item marked with a <img src="http://ostatic.com/themes/B7/imgs/icon-oss.gif" /> and the proprietary one with <img src="http://ostatic.com/themes/B7/imgs/icon-pss.gif" /> is my favorite. Visit this section and if possible contribute to the alternatives if you know one.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Excellent Open Source Resource and Reviews - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://ostatic.com/">OStatic.com </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-46519969529086787322008-04-17T14:46:00.000+05:302008-04-17T18:29:57.707+05:30DimDim -World’s first free web meeting service<img src="http://dimdim.com/images/dimdim-logo.png" /> <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">DimDim</span></a> is the world’s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">DimDim</span></a> </span><span style="font-style: italic;"> is a browser-based web 2.0 service that allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via web cam. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">DimDim</span></a> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">’s hosted service is available for free and can be easily used for small gatherings, to seminars with hundreds of attendees. With absolutely no software to download for attendees, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">DimDim</span></a> </span><span style="font-style: italic;"> gives everyone the opportunity to hold Web meetings and to customize and brand these meetings.</span><br /><br />I have been following up on <span><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>for more than one year. I have also got the alpha version of the open source <span><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>running in my lab. Since then, till now a lot of visible changes have happened. One of the good ones has been their <a href="http://dimdim.typepad.com/dimdim_blog/2008/04/were-open-for-e.html">recent release of hosted public beta to the rest of the world</a>. Good news because its been quite sometime since they have started work on it. In one recent correspondence with DD <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Ganguly</span> I was told they are focusing in a big way on the upcoming release and will let the product speak for itself. I am impressed, not just with their entire approach but also with their determination to make it big. Since I was one of the early private beta users I too have been auto upgraded! Thanks DD...<br /><br /><span><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>can be very easily mooted as a replacement for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">WebEx</span> and MS Live Meeting like applications which help by setting up web meetings and screen-casts on the web. <span><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>focuses mostly on the richness and completeness of a web experience according to me (based on whatever little I was able to spend on the alpha release and now public beta). It looks very promising and has a lot of features which makes it stand out on its own way. Based on a flash based interface which makes it very platform and browser portable, it also includes nifty features like real time chat and discussion. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The best and the really clinching victory over its counterparts is that they have decided to make it Open Source and the community version of </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">is available on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">SourceForge</span>.net</span> <span><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>plans to make money from the support and enterprise version of the same.<br /><br />I had the opportunity to try Microsoft Live Meeting and frankly the experience has been harrowing at times! <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">is a breeze</span> compared to MS Live Meeting, though I wont be able to comment much on the open source edition since I could not upgrade to their latest release in my lab (they have hard coded port 80 which was not the case with earlier releases! can someone help me with that?)<br /><br />Some typical daily uses I foresee for myself with <span><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>is to share my desktop with my brother in Delhi to help him with his incessant queries about his laptop. But the uses are pretty much more obviously! :)<br /><br />Quite sometime back I had emailed DD <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Ganguly</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Sundar</span> S about <span><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>and their team. Sadly they never replied back. Hope they do reply to me as <span><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>sure seems to be on its way up!<br /><br />Make way MS Live and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">WebEx</span>- <span><a href="http://www.dimdim.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">DimDim</span></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>is here to stay :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-2797720616770365432008-03-04T23:37:00.001+05:302008-03-04T23:50:12.380+05:30Site has Moved!<span style="font-weight: bold;">open-source.onestop.net has moved to </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://osafw.blogspot.com/">osafw.blogspot.com</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">While checking today found that ONESTOP.NET has suddenly shutdown their free service without any warnings!</span><br /></div><br />Well luckily I had backed it up on blogspot and was able to republish it in the new site. But obviously there would be many broken links which will take time to be corrected. The inconvenience caused is regretted and apologies for the same.<br /><br />The site feed will continue to be published from: <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/osafw">http://feeds.feedburner.com/osafw</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-46151140926981322252008-02-04T13:50:00.000+05:302008-02-04T15:02:02.097+05:30Mp3 Tag Tools<img src="http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/images/Export1.png" height="40" /> Since I got my own iPod I had to make sure that I get the ID3 tags of the MP3 songs right. Initially it was a tough job because most of the MP3 songs which I had had either no ID3 tags or were incorrect. With the number of songs in thousands it was getting difficult to manage all of them. Thats when I found a desktop tool named<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/">Mp3 Tag Tools</a> which is a neat and extremely fast way to get my songs tagged and in turn accessed right from the iTunes application.<br /><br />The features which I use most to re-tag my mp3s using <a href="http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/">Mp3 Tag Tools</a> are:<br /><ul style="font-style: italic;"><li>Mass ID3 tagging</li><li>Custom Filename Format specification like "(Artist) - Album - Title - Ignore" using shortcuts "(*1) - *2 - *3 - *0" or selecting checkboxes</li><li><artist><album><ignore>Write ID3 tags from Filenames using Custom Filename Format</ignore></album></artist><br /></li><li><artist><album><ignore>Rename Filenames From ID3 tags using Custom Filename or Directory Format</ignore></album></artist><br /></li><li>Recursion - All these tag operations can be carried out by individually selecting one or more files from a mp3 tag list, created by searching a specified directory with or without recursion.<br /></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction</span><b>: Mp3 Tag Tools v1.2</b>(C) 2003 John George K. is <b>GNU GPL free software</b>, intutive ID3v1.1 and ID3v2.x mp3 tag editing utility, with several features such as Mass ID3 tagging, Write ID3 tags from Filenames and Rename Files from ID3 tags using Custom Formats, Copy/Synchronize ID3 tags, Cleaning Filenames and Correcting their case, Create ID3 tags using Directory Formats, Create Directories and organize mp3s from ID3 tag info, Export ID3 tag data, Lyrics and Picture tagging, accurately read all MPEG info and append bitrate and mode to filenames. All these tag operations can be carried out with or without directory recursion. </span><br /></div><br />The other most important feature which I found very useful was that it was not a very big software either in its memory usage or disk occupancy. It was simple to get me going though the tasks were pretty complex at times as I had to do a lot of mass custom tagging on my mp3s. Being programmed in native Windows programming code it is blazing fast and efficient. I would rate this app a 5 on my usability and usefulness list.<br /><br />The application is Open Source (<b>GNU GPL free software)</b> and native Windows (<b>programmed entirely in Visual C++6 & MFC). </b>It has been programmed by<b> </b>John George K.<br /><b><br /></b>My iTunes is now complete with <a href="http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/">Mp3 Tag Tools</a>!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-8768092330399755952007-11-24T10:05:00.000+05:302007-11-24T11:40:32.069+05:30ClamWin Antivirus Glue - for Firefox<span style="font-style:italic;">This extension scans every downloaded file automatically with ClamWin.</span><br /><br />I use Clamwin at home and the only grouse that I have against it is that it still does not have a realtime access scan. A way out of it would be to use the previously talked about <a href="http://open-source.onestop.net/2006/04/winpooch.html">WinPooch</a>. But is it not better to nip the evil at the bud? I mean its better if we scan the file the moment its downloaded from the browser automatically. I had used this Firefox extension a very long time back but with the new releases of the browser the official copy somehow seems to have been moth balled. <br /><br />After some tries I did find it <a href="http://www.outraged-artists.com/flockd/profile.php?ind=866">here</a><br /><br />In case you don't have <a href="http://open-source.onestop.net/2006/04/winpooch.html">Winpooch</a> but are a dedicated Firefox user like me ;) this add-on is a must!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Can someone point me to its IE equivalent please? </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-10360125908937156472007-10-31T16:05:00.000+05:302007-10-31T14:25:45.726+05:30HandBrake -multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter<img src="http://www.ilounge.com/images/uploads/handbrake.jpg"/><span style="font-style:italic;">HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.</span><br /><br />Installed Size on Hard Drive: 10MB<br />Memory Footprint while running(not ripping): 22,256KB<br />User friendliness/ease of use: Pretty Straightforward. The presets cover most output formats.<br />Similar to: many closed source variants, but did not find them any better than this<br /><br />Can be used (and is famous for the same) to rip audio/video from a DVD for the iPod. Obviously can also be used for ripping a DVD to the hard drive in a different format. This will enable us to save the dvd copy at a smaller size on the disk and also archive the same.<br /><br />Links with steps for using HandBrake for iPods:<br /><a href="http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-converting-dvds-to-ipod-format-mac/">The-complete-guide-to-converting-dvds-to-ipod-format-mac</a><br /><a href="http://www.podcastingnews.com/articles/Rip_DVDs_for_iPod.html">Rip_DVDs_for_iPod</a><br /><a href="http://howto.diveintomark.org/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/">iPod-dvd-ripping-guide</a><br /><br />Latest release as we speak: HandBrake 0.9.1<br />Direct Download Link: <a href="http://handbrake.m0k.org/rotation.php?file=Handbrake-win-2.41.exe">Windows GUI</a><br />The command Line Version:<a href="http://handbrake.m0k.org/rotation.php?file=HandBrakeCLI-0.9.1-Win32.zip"> Windows CLI (i386 Binary)</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9738076.post-38153863054876126812007-10-24T16:14:00.000+05:302007-10-31T12:49:49.391+05:30RockBox -Open Source Jukebox Firmware<img src="http://www.rockbox.org/rockbox400.png"/><span style="font-style:italic;">Rockbox is an open source firmware for mp3 players, written from scratch. It runs on a wide range of players:<br /><br /> * Apple: 1st through 5.5th generation iPod, iPod Mini and 1st generation iPod Nano<br /> (not the Shuffle, 2nd/3rd gen Nano, Classic or Touch)<br /> * Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio<br /> * Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5 and M5L<br /> * iriver: H100, H300 and H10 series<br /> * SanDisk: Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series<br /> * Toshiba: Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series)<br /> * More players are in development </span><br /><br />One of the most undervalued software of our times RockBox can really make an iPod rock. Kudos to team of RockBox to hack through closed firmwares and come up with an excellent replacement for many known music player software (in layman terms). RockBox to a music player is like Linux for a computer. RockBox understands the machine and helps play music in various file formats on your electronic music player. It can completely replace the proprietary (and time times completely lackluster) software running on your player. <br /><br />Check out <a href="http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox">why RockBox is better than the original</a>: <a href="http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox">http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox</a><br /><br />Other than <span style="font-weight:bold;">supporting larger number of file formats</span> which it can play on a player, it also <span style="font-weight:bold;">significantly improves the player efficiency</span>. Other than a host of benefits you also have the <span style="font-weight:bold;">ability to give a unique face lift</span> to your player through its <span style="font-weight:bold;">themes and display options</span>. <br /><br />I have personally installed RockBox on my 80GB iPod (which also frequents as my USB drive). With RockBox I dont need iTunes or a separate manager for managing my songs on the iPod. I just copy the songs directly from my Windows box to the iPod drive. This has immense benefits as I can now share the songs with anyone I want just as I would do from a portable drive and also play the same songs on my ipod. RockBox also has its own video player which means I don't have to convert the videos (.avi) to see them on the iPod, I can directly play them without any conversion. <br /><br />My remorse with RockBox and iPod has been its hunger for power. The battery life seems to be much less than what I would get from Apple's firmware. The RockBox team seems to be working on it and I more hopeful about them resolving the problem than Apple freeing up the player from their proprietary format. <br /><br />Installation might seem a bit difficult but if you follow the simple and excellent procedure as mentioned in the documentation I am sure you will be able to start RockBox in a few minutes.<br /><br />If you are concerned about the warranty I would suggest that you don't try RockBox. But if you are brave enough I will say that you can always reformat the iPod later with its original software to get it back as new (on the software front atleast). So go ahead and have a rocking time with RockBox on your MP3 player or iPod.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0