There is a 3 member community for using GNU Emacs as a video editor based on GPL-ed free software: mplayer and avidemux. They now have now a working proof of concept GNU Emacs video editor mode in an alpha stage. GNU Emacs is used for composing an Edit Decision List using mplayer for previewing films [...]
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I’ve stopped using Microsoft Office when they came out with 2007. I had Office 2003 and was ok happy with it, but the cost of 2007 was too much, and there where so many cheaper options out there. So when I saw below it caught my attention.
It’s been a good week for anyone praying for [...]
Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long as we could, but to be honest, we’ve been dying to tell you about the bun we’ve got in the oven. We’ll soon be welcoming a new addition to the Google Docs & Spreadsheets family: presentations.
First of all, we want to welcome the team from [...]
eMoviX is a tiny Linux CD distribution containing all the software to boot from a CD and play automatically every video file localized in the CD root. Supported formats are all formats supported by MPlayer, most noticeably DivX & XviD but more in general most AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, FLI and a few others.
If [...]
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There’s a new, faster, more efficient version of Democracy Player out today. Democracy is the free and open Internet video player that can subscribe to easily-published video feeds. It automatically fetches new videos using BitTorrent (so the video-maker’s server is never overwhelmed by sudden popularity) and it plays it no matter what video format it’s [...]
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Our system automatically constructs simple “pop-up” 3D models, like those one would find in a children’s book, out of a single outdoor image. The system labels each region of an outdoor image as ground, vertical, or sky. Line segments fitted to the ground-vertical boundary in the image and an estimate of the horizon’s position provide [...]
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Veteran malware researcher Joe Stewart was fairly sure he’d seen it all until he started poking at the SpamThru Trojan—a piece of malware designed to send spam from an infected computer.
The Trojan, which uses peer-to-peer technology to send commands to hijacked computers, has been fitted with its own anti-virus scanner—a level of complexity and sophistication [...]
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Google launches free, kick-ass word-processor
Google has re-lauched Writely, the online word-processor they recently bought, in public beta. Writely does everything Word does, for free — and saves its output as PDFs and even RSS feeds (subscribe to a word-processor doc!). It features collaborative editing — multiple editors on the same doc at once — [...]
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Official Google Blog: More ways to connect and share with Google Talk
Millions of you use Google Talk every day to connect with friends, family, and colleagues via chat and calls. Today we’re releasing a new version of Google Talk that introduces several more ways to share and connect. You can download it here.
File transfer [...]
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Writer Zone: Introducing Windows Live Writer
We are excited to announce that the Beta version of Windows Live Writer is available for download today.
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service.
Blogging has turned the web into a two-way communications [...]
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