links for 2006-10-26
26th October 2006 by eamonn No CommentsMovie Masher: Online Video Editor: Upload, Edit and Share Video
(tags: video service)
Jumpcut – Make Amazing Movies Online
(tags: video service)
“The future is already here. …” *
Movie Masher: Online Video Editor: Upload, Edit and Share Video
(tags: video service)
Jumpcut – Make Amazing Movies Online
(tags: video service)
Video Technology Search Engine
Google Co-op – Custom Search Engine
(tags: video service)
Toufee flash movie maker – Make flash movies in seconds!
Flash movie and presentation maker
(tags: video service)
The current state of video search
A nice survey of the video on the web, and how it could be searched.
(tags: video)
Moving Images
The Library of COngress on video formats for preservation.
(tags: video)
Flapjax Tutorial
This is a really interesting looking language for writing AJAX apps. I allows you to write programs that have the dataflow semantics of a spreadsheet.
(tags: programming ajax)
I started creating a spreadsheet of transit schedules between my home in San Francisco and my office in Palo Alto. It looks like there is no appealing options, but I will try it next week anyway.
Retroweaver
Hopefully I will be able to use this tool to deploy my Java 1.5 application on a Java 1.4 JDK.
(tags: java programming tool)
I followed these instructions for how to mount a FAT partition read-write for communication between Windows and Linux on my laptop. I also followed the instructions further down to mount the main windows NTFS partition read-only.
It is a pity that the Ubuntu System->Administration-Disks->Partitions GUI does not allow you to do this. THough [...]
With Ubunto it seems that Linux is getting closer to be a viable replacement for Windows. I am several days into my experiment of running Ubunto as my operating system on my laptop. So far it is going fairly well, but I have hit the following problems:
I cannot get the Evolution connection to [...]
One problem with my Ubunto installation on my laptop is that the max resolution I can set was 1024×768 which is pretty crowded for soing software development in Eclipse. So I followed the instructions in FixVideoResolutionHowto – Community Ubuntu Documentation:
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.custom
sudo sh -c ‘md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum’
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
update
Well, that worked, but [...]
Next I went to the Eclipse downloads home to get the next vital piece of Java development kit. I just extracted the Linux archive file into a subdirectory of my home directory, navigated into that folder and executed it. It started up right away using the 1.4.2 GCJ Java SDK that comes with [...]
I had to go to Sun’s Java SE Downloads web site to download Java, which is not available via the Ubuntu installer. I considered using one of the open source Java SDKs intead but I make extensive use of Java 1.5 features which are not yet I think well supported by non-Sun compilers.
The installation [...]
Well, I just received a new laptop at work and our IT department put their standard Windows XP image onto it. I decided I wanted to be able to also run Linux on this machine.
Step 1: Before I even logged into Windows for the first time I rebooted off a Partition Magic CD [...]
The Folding Bike Solution
Reviews and advice on folding bicycles, a bit NYC-centric.
(tags: folding bike)
Brompton Bikes : Buying
California stores selling Brompton folding bikes.
(tags: folding bike)
Web Page Analyzer – free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization
Handy performance analyser for web site.
(tags: service)
WP-Cache and the Blank Page problem at Blogging Blog
I was running into this problem as I attempted to speed up this blog using WP-Cache. The fix described here worked like a charm.