Sunday, October 28, 2007

Using The Avant Window Navigator (AWN) On Fedora 7

This document describes how to set up the Avant Window Navigator (AWN) on Fedora 7. The result is an eye candy, dock-like bar at the bottom of the screen as a replacement for the standard gnome-panel. The Avant Window Manager provides an easy to use interface where you can configure/customize it to your needs. Launchers, task lists, and third party applets are supported.




This document describes how to set up the Avant Window Navigator (AWN) on Fedora 7. The result is an eye candy, dock-like bar at the bottom of the screen as a replacement for the standard gnome-panel. The Avant Window Manager provides an easy to use interface where you can configure/customize it to your needs. Launchers, task lists, and third party applets are supported.

http://www.howtoforge.com/avant_window_navigator_awn_fedora7








Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Video Editing Options for Linux



We know our video editing applications for Windows (read Adobe Premiere, AVID, Ulead Video studio etc) and Mac (Final Cut Pro!), but what about video editing on a Linux powered system? Well here's a list of video editing applications for your Linux


1. Kdenlive: Kdenlive is a non linear video editor for the KDE environment running on Linux. It is based on the MLT video framework which relies on the FFMPEG project.

The project was initially started by Jason Wood in 2002, and is now maintained by a small team of developers. Kdenlive is available in English, French, German, Dutch, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and Catalan.


2. OpenMovieEditor: Open Movie Editor is designed to be a simple video editor, that provides basic movie making capabilities. It aims to be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use. The downside with OpenMovieEditor is that it only supports PAL at this point.

3. Blender: Blender is an all-in-one 3D modelling and animation suite. It can be used to produce computer-generated images and movies. It is open source freeware, so it costs nothing to use. It is available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

4. Cinelerra: Cinelerra does primarily 3 main things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It's a seamless integration of audio, video, and still photos rarely experienced on a web server.

Its crash prone, resource hungry, and really weirdly put together, but if when it works, it does a good job.

5. Pitivi: PiTIVi provides several ways of creating and modifying a timeline. Ranging from a simple synopsis view (a-la iMovie) to the full-blown editing view (aka Complex View) which puts you in complete control of your editing.

Other interfaces can be added via the plugin system, aimed at more specific uses like a SlideShow creator or a subtitling editor. It is even possible to use pitivi without a user interface in order to do batch rendering.

But open source video editing software still have a long way to go when compared with their Windows and Mac counterparts in terms of video resolution, additional features and program crashes.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Open source webdevelopment

Open source CMSs have been getting a lot of attention recently.
They are free and have a lot of useful functionality for building and maintaining a website.
With less effort a dynamic website can be made for the same cost as a static website.The three widely used CMSs are Joomla,mambo and drupal.
The modules are well structured that could be implemented easily and can be customized.
Thousands of free templates are available online that could be customized according to ones needs and implemented.There are lots of attractive ad-ons and components available to implement on the CMS based website.These CMSs have certain attractive tools for SEO too.
These CMSs have special modules that can be used to integrate the website with payment gateways to create an e commerce website.
Open source shopping carts are also there like OS-Commerce that can be used to create an online shopping website.These shopping cart CMSs are specifically used for creating online stores.
Different modules are there from product customization to payment gateway integration.
So, it's well worth choosing an open source CMS to create a website that will reduce cost and effort.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Vista versus Linux Search Battle...

Hello people, i am just giving some search results that are reflected back by Google and yahoo on some nice keywords regarding Vista and Linux...

* Who is Greater
"Vista is great"
137,000,000 results from Google
51,400,000 results from Yahoo

"Linux is great"
165,000,000 results from Google
48,500,000 results from Yahoo

* Which has more bugs
"Vista has bugs"
18,200,000 results from Google
4,920,000 results from Yahoo

"Linux has bugs"
69,700,000 results from Google
9,710,000 results from Yahoo

* Who suck more ??
"Vista sucks"
2,340,000 results from Google
6,530,000 results from Yahoo

"Linux sucks"
2,290,000 results from Google
5,180,000 results from Yahoo

* Stability
"Vista is Unstable"
1,720,000 results from Google
2,020,000 results from Yahoo

"Linux is unstable"
2,100,000 results from Google
2,430,000 results from Yahoo

* Who use what
"I use Vista"
461,000,000 results from Google
118,000,000 results from yahoo

"I use Linux"
450,000,000 results from Google
146,000,000 results from Yahoo

* Which is secure
"Vista is secure"
62,000,000 results from Google
21,700,000 results from Yahoo

"Linux is secure"
119,000,000 results from Google
30,600,000 results from yahoo



Amazingly, according to Google, there are more Vista users, while according to Yahoo, there are more Linux users.
One thins is clear, no doubt that Linux has much more bugs than Vista, but still people think that Linux is great than Vista.