Linux And Friends

The Google office based in United Kingdom has put together an awesome video depicting the entire history of Google right from its inception to all its achievements till date.

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was released on October 28 2009. This latest version of Ubuntu has numerous features and improvements over its predecessor Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.02.

This is an excellent video tutorial on photo retouching. Here the author explains how to use Photoshop to remove the flash hotspots you encounter in your photos when you shoot pictures.

With the advent of free video sharing sites like Youtube, Blip.tv, Vimeo, Viddler, Dailymotion, and so on, screen video capturing tools have gained in popularity. The leader in screencasting is no doubt Techsmith’s Camtasia Studio. However Linux users can put together decent screencasts using XVidCap screen capture utility. Recently there has been a spurt in [...]

The other day, I had explained how you can download subtitles for your movies from opensubtitles website using a nifty software called Subdownloader. Once you have downloaded the relevant subtitle file for your movies, it is quite trivial to show subtitles for the movie in Totem media player – the default video player in Ubuntu [...]

SubDownloader is a program for automatic download/upload subtitles for video files (DIVX,MPEG,AVI,VOB,etc) and DVD’s using fast hashing. It sports a friendly interface which allows users to have a better movie experience since searching for subtitles is no longer dull or boring. SubDownloader follows the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle. This utility makes subtitle searching [...]

A student has invented a folding bicycle which can be completely folded into its wheel’s 26 inch circumference. Check out this video. [Source : News.sky.com]

In Ubuntu Linux, you may not find a software in the league of  Techsmith Camtasia Studio to create screencasts.  Nevertheless, it is possible to create very good screencasts in Ubuntu Linux. Only, you have to make use of several tools instead of one. These are the steps needed to create a screencast in Ubuntu Linux.

This is a TED talk given by Pattie Maes from MIT labs. Here she demonstrates a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. She gives us a glimpse of what our digital world is going to be like and how we will be interacting with it,  say [...]