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Some News On VideoLAN Movie Creator

Remember VideoLAN Movie Creator (VLMC)? Many people (including myself) got really exited on the news that the VLC team is working on a video editor but then everything seem to fade away and there weren't any news about it. That until now, when a blog post from one of the VLMC developers

Opera 10.51 For Windows Released; New, 'Prettier' Linux Builds Available Too

While Opera 10.50 for Windows was released more then a week ago, Linux builds only get 'prettier'.

Psi Is A Feature-Rich Jabber Instant Messaging Client For Ubuntu

Psi is a free, open source instant messaging application designed for the Jabber IM network (including Google Talk) compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

If you're tired with the Jabber functionality of Empathy or Pidgin, both lacking lots of important features for this protocol, you should give Psi a try.

Launchy 2.5 Beta 2 Released

launchy 2.5 beta 2

Workrave Tells You When To Take A Break, Preventing Repetitive Strain Injury

Many of us get caught up in our work on the computer and forget to take breaks. This can cause Repetitive Strain Injury. But Workrave comes to the rescue!

WinFF Is A Great Audio / Video Converter With Presets For iPod-iTunes, Google Android, Blackberry, Etc.

Winff is a GUI fronted for the very well-known FFmpeg, which works on Windows and Linux (unfortunately it doesn't work on Mac OS X).

WinFF 1.2.0 was released a few days ago and it brings 2 new very interesting features: preview and cropping for videos.

Bluefish Text Editor 2.0.0 Released [Windows, Linux, Mac OS X]

bluefish 2.2.0

After 16 development releases and 3 release candidates, Bluefish 2.0.0 is finally ready.

Sikuli (GUI Automation Using Screenshots) Moves To Launchpad, Finally Works On Linux

Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots) which we've covered not so long ago but which at the time of our post didn't work on Linux (but did work on Windows and Mac OS X)

Zaz Is An Addictive Arcade Action Puzzle Game For Windows And Linux

Zaz is an multi-platform (Windows and Linux) arcade action puzzle game where the objective is to get rid of all incoming balls by rearranging their order. The games seems really addictive, so be aware! :-)

VideoLAN Movie Creator Pre-Release Coming Very Soon [Screenshot]

The VLC team has been working (or actually, they call it "support" so they might not do this entirely on themselves) on a new project for quite some time, called VideoLAN Movie Creator, a free video editing software offering features to realize semi-professional quality movies, but with the aim to stays simple and user-friendly.

Tonido: Access And Share Your Files From Any­where Through A Web Browser

Tonido is an extensible personal web application platform (I guess you could call it a "home server" or your own personal 'cloud'), that offers an set of rich and powerful browser based applications. The files are hosted on your computer and you (or somebody else if you allow it) can access them remotely, through these web apps.

How To Convert .IMG Files To .VDI For VirtualBox [Quick Tip]

To convert an .img file to .vdi in Linux, so that you can directly use it in VirtualBox, open a terminal and paste this:

New Releases: Adobe AIR 2 Beta / Flash Player 10.1 Prerelease

Adobe announced the beta release of AIR 2.0, the next iteration of the AIR platform.

New Adobe AIR 2.0 beta features include:

- Support for the detection of mass storage devices.
- Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets.

VirtualBox 3.1 Beta 1 Released

SUN announced on their forums, the release of the first beta of VirtualBox 3.1, the next major update of the popular virtualization software which includes some really interesting changes, such as:

  • Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one machine to another

PlayOnLinux 3.7 Released

PlayOnLinux is a free application that puts an easy to follow wizard style interface on top of WINE and contains some pre-installed scripts to help load a number of compatible applications and games.

RPhoto: Almost Perfect Image Viewer

RPhoto is an open-source image viewer and editor for Windows and Linux. Its origin resides in the lack of a simple software capable of cropping photos with a constant ratio, to avoid white borders when printing.

andLinux: Run Linux Applications Seamlessly In Windows

Better WINE Management With Q4Wine

Q4Wine is a qt4 GUI for Wine (application which can be used to run Windows applications on Linux) which you can use to manage wine prefixes and installed applications.

How To Create .nfo Files in Linux

MediaInfo is a free, open source and multi-platform (works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX) application which supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file, which we are going to use to create .nfo files.

 

Best Free Multiplayer, Multi-Platform MMORPG Game: Regnum Online

Regnum Online is a free fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) game (although premium content is available for enhanced game play) which runs on both Windows and Linux and I must say it looks really good.

 

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