Category: All

All posts across the whole website belong to this category. They might also belong to some other categories as well, but this one holds all of them. Hence the descriptive name – All.

Day in brief

  • I love the smell of filtered coffee in the morning. #
  • Shared: The art of the animated gif http://bit.ly/duelzN #
  • How often do you get to see naked hardware these days? http://twitpic.com/35tmtv #
  • Bookmarked: Notifications in Fedora 14 http://bit.ly/bhlj1p #
  • I love our new Internet connection in the office. Torrent DVD download takes less than 10 minutes. That's 21st century in my book. #

Screencasting in Linux

I came across an excellent tutorial on how to do screencasts in Linux.  The original article is in Russian, so I just grabbed the important bits and translated them below.

  • Install screencast recording application.  recordmydekstop is available via yum install recordmydesktop and comes with a simple and straight-forward interface for both KDE and Gnome.
  • Record a screencast.
  • If you want to edit the screencast (cut out mistakes, add music, etc), install a video editor.  These came recommended: Pitivi, Kino, Kdenlive.
  • Edit your screencast.
  • Convert to AVI if needed (recommended before uploading to video hosting services, such as YouTube, as they don’t always work well with Ogg).  ffmpeg -i screencast.ogv screencast.avi should do it.  ffmpeg is also available in most distributions.  You can play more with parameters, or prepare the video during the editing stage.
  • Upload the video and share.

This is the kind of a guide that I need once in a while, but which I can’t seem to find when I need it.  Hopefully now that I have it blogged, it’ll come handy.

Day in brief

  • Beautiful morning. Unfortunately no sign of the upcoming winter. #
  • Shared: Install Android 2.2 Froyo on your jailbroken iPhone 3G over-the-air with Bootlace http://bit.ly/9w6q0u #
  • Shared: Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java http://bit.ly/cEBjRJ #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — Speedflying in Wengen 2010 http://youtu.be/UwWLnaME0CI?a #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — WILLIAM SPENCER-HOLLARADO! http://youtu.be/BT_45XGhE1o?a #
  • Car termometer shows +30C outside. Some November… #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — Millimetres Matter http://youtu.be/Y6nshKhqyqU?a #
  • Follow @longreads if you like reading long, well written articles from across the web. Some awesome stuff there. Not enough time. :) #
  • I don't even know how to retweet the long cat, so here you go with a screenshot. http://twitpic.com/35lbrq #
  • About to teach my kid how to bust baddies in NFS Hot Persuit Demo. This way I can buy the full game for him for Christmas. #
  • Yeah, parental control is for lousy parents. :) #

Day in brief

  • I got an email from Google recruiter again. I failed miserably with my previous two attempts. Wondering if I should try or give up now. #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — Harum Scarum Printers – Dot matrix printer music – Nesem… http://youtu.be/NcmP6fzj2KM?a #
  • My pension age is not up until 2043! This fact just thew me into a deep depression. I need Plan B, as I'm not even sure I'll live that long. #
  • Bookmarked: AIS Dispatcher – Linux version http://tinyurl.com/2c359wm #
  • Bookmarked: PrimeTel speed test http://tinyurl.com/24qlrne #
  • Bookmarked: XE – World Currency Symbols http://tinyurl.com/2dcjs74 #
  • Bookmarked: Hellenic NetBanking for Personal http://tinyurl.com/287rlaa #
  • Bookmarked: What Page of Google Am I On? http://tinyurl.com/2bmxeu6 #
  • I am now pushing all my public Delicious bookmarks to Twitter automatically, using http://twitterfeed.com/ #
  • Shared: LHC generates a mini Big Bang http://bit.ly/cYlDeo #
  • Added 'tweet' tag to my Google Reader, made the feed public, and added it to TwitterFeed. This way I can selectively tweet shared items. #
  • Twitter is my social glue.I want it to have an update from social activity,so that it ends up blogged in the daily digest via Twitter Tools. #
  • Bookmarked: twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter http://twitterfeed.com/ #
  • I wish I had better tools to integrate Google Buzz with my blog, my social networks, and my non-iPhone/non-Android/non-Blackberry phone. #
  • Shared: Microsoft's new slogan gets official http://bit.ly/94pqyH #
  • Bookmarked: lagger – Project Hosting on Google Code http://bit.ly/aw6ZW7 #
  • Bookmarked: PHP Console – Google Chrome extension gallery http://bit.ly/cN31fF #
  • My boss smokes at work all day long… http://twitpic.com/35e5vr #

Happy 6th birthday, Firefox!

Download Squad reminds us that it has only been 6 years that Firefox is with us.   That’s true, but I find it so hard to believe.  What was the web experience before Firefox came along?  I remember that Firefox made it way better, but I don’t really remember how bad it was before that.  And even though I spend most of these days using Google Chrome, I clocked thousands of hours in Firefox and it is almost like a relative to me.

Happy birthday dear browser! Best wishes and may you continue to improve, especially now that you have some competition to get you going.