Archive for the ‘Multimedia’ Category

Realize your dream of a linux mediacenter with the help of payday loans

Posted by gautam on February 24th, 2010 under Information About, Multimedia, Tips & Tricks • No Comments

Your child had been pestering you for that Linux mediacenter which he came across a few weeks back at the shopping mall and you promised to gift him on this birthday but all your plans went haywire af…

HP Coupon Codes: Lets you save on your Linux mediacenter purchase

Posted by gautam on January 24th, 2010 under Did you know, Multimedia • No Comments

Hewlett-Packard has won a highly lucrative and bitterly contested battle against Kodak as the printer supplier for photo kiosks in thousands of Wal-Mart stores, giving HP a dynamic and long-lasting re…

Picasa bumped up to version 3

Posted by Rom Feria on October 14th, 2008 under Multimedia • No Comments

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Nicolas Loran

Google just upgraded its photo editor, Picasa, to version 3. This new version brings the following new features:

Sync Picasa 3 with Picasa Web Albums
Ne…

Apricot, the open source Blender game

Posted by Rom Feria on July 12th, 2008 under Multimedia • No Comments

The Blender 3D open source community is highlighting the power of their software by producing Apricot, an open source Blender game. By the looks of the various sample videos (see one below), it shows …

Let the Banshee manage your multi-media

Posted by Rom Feria on June 16th, 2008 under Multimedia • No Comments

When I wrote about music players available on Linux, a reader commented about Banshee. I decided to check it out now that version 1.0 is already out.

Banshee is a like an open-sourced iTunes player…

Open Movie Editor

Posted by Rom Feria on May 31st, 2008 under Multimedia • No Comments

Not too long ago, I featured two entries, "Linux Video Editing" and "State of Video Editing", on video editing in Linux. Today, I feature another one that I just recently discove…

How to access your Flickr assets like a file system

Posted by Rom Feria on May 31st, 2008 under Multimedia • No Comments

I have been a Flickr user for a long time already and I have gigabytes of images hosted there, some of which I have uploaded directly from my mobile phone (no local copies). I have thought of downlo…

Skype 2.0 for Linux officially released

Posted by Rom Feria on March 19th, 2008 under Multimedia • No Comments

by Sebastian Bergmann

I have been playing with the beta version of Skype for Linux on the Asus Eee PC before and I must say that it is stable and awesome. Video support is a welcome addition to this …

Gnash

Posted by Rom Feria on March 19th, 2008 under Multimedia • No Comments

We all know that YouTube and other popular video-sites use Flash as their multimedia file format. Whilst Adobe provides versions of their flash player for Linux, the player is in no way open source. …

Picasa for Linux

Posted by Rom Feria on January 12th, 2008 under Multimedia • No Comments

Back in 2006, I wished for a Linux port of Google's Picasa for photo editing and sharing. Google answered my prayer and gave us a Linux port.

Whilst it is not entirely a native Linux applicati…