Want better video playback on Linux? Can you code? There will be a hackfest this November in Barcelona from November 19-22, 2009. If you can go and join the hackfest because this is something you are personally hacking on, then I think it’s just right that you contact those who are organizing it. Check out this email for more details on how to participate in this particular hackfest. This is all about making X, Cairo and GStreamer work better to give everyone a better user experience when it comes to videos on Linux. Here’s …read more

If you’re a collector like me then you probably have spreadsheets of these things you’ve collected in the past how many months or even years. Personally I only started becoming aware of the need to keep track of all these things. I think it’s partly because I am running out of shelf space. And some of my books ended up on my sister’s shelves. Tsk, it’s really time for me to sort things out!
Tell It to Tellico…
And Tellico will save just about everything you enter in the application. This is not a difficult application to …read more

I wanted to convert some of my files to mp4 so I could watch them on the iPod. Fortunately it was possible using Handbrake. Handbrake lets me convert files easily because I only need to point it to the source file and then select the output type — if it will be for the iPod, a gaming console like a PSP or something else. You could also have custom settings.
So yes, Handbrake. What does it really do? It’s basically a transcoder of video files. It doesn’t rip DVDs but it converts files to other …read more

It’s been difficult not having a Yahoo! Messenger counterpart because most of my contacts, including my mom, are always using Y!M. It’s not easy to communicate if I can’t even do voice and video chats with her. I forgot all about GYACHI until I read this blog entry about how to install GYACHI on Ubuntu.
So far, the webcam on my Acer Aspire One works well with it. I tested with one of my co-workers this morning. But — here are some things I have to figure out first:

The voice chat. It’s been looking for a …read more