My bookmarks for 07/03/2010

• Alchemy | An open drawing project

  "Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways. Alchemy isn’t software for creating finished artwork, but rather a sketching environment that focuses on the absolute initial stage of the creation process. Experimental in nature, Alchemy lets you brainstorm visually to explore an expanded range of ideas and possibilities in a serendipitous way. "

  tags: Open Source software graphics painting

• OpenShot – An Easy-to-use Video Editor For the Average Linux User - Make Tech Easier

  "OpenShot is a non-linear video editor for Linux. It can easily combine multiple video clips, audio clips, and images into a single project, and then export the video into many common video formats. Things that you can do with OpenShot include creating photo slide shows, edit home videos, create television commercials and on-line films, or anything else you can dream up."

  tags: linux video editor

• Build Your Own Ubuntu-based Distro With Novo Builder

  "Novo Builder is a Debian GNU/Linux tool for creating your own up to date Ubuntu variants (only Ubuntu variant for the time being) customised to include the programs, themes and customised settings that you want. You don’t have to learn all the codes or any of the technical process. With a few mouse clicks and a long waiting time, you can quickly create your very own OS (and probably boost it to your friend)."

  tags: ubuntu linux diy distribution

• 18 Free Screencasting tools to Create Video Tutorials

  "Videos are simply great to deliver a message in a very short time and for most people bandwidth is not a problem any more.The following screencasting tools are all free to record screen but of course their features are not as much as paid ones.You can easily record your screen and add audio or edit your recorded screen videos with these tools."

  tags: screencasting

• How to Authenticate Users With Facebook Connect | Nettuts+

  "Lately, there’s been quite a fuzz about lazy registration. It turns out that the less the user has to think, the higher the conversion rates are! What a thought! If everybody seems to have a Facebook profile, why not add a one-click user registration? I’ll show you how to do that today."

  tags: facebook php authentication development

• HTML5 Apps: Positioning with Geolocation

  "At the heart of every location-based application is positioning and geolocation. In this tutorial you will learn the geolocation capabilities of HTML5 and the basic principles needed to take advantage of them in your next HTML5 app!"

  tags: html5 geolocation development

• Introduction to Android Development

  "Today we’ll be taking a look at Android development: explaining why people have choosen to work with Android and providing an overview of the Eclipse IDE and its Java, DDMS and debugging perspectives. Finally, you’ll learn how to get started making your first Android app!"

  tags: android development

• Introduction to iPhone SDK Development

  "This tutorial looks at development with the iPhone SDK. You will learn information about the iPhone platform, how to setup and configure your development environment, and the steps necessary to create a simple fortune cookie application! "

  tags: iphone development sdk

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Element OS 1.3 is now Available

Just came across Element OS 1.3 and from reading their release announcement it looks like a really good project. I have not tried it yet (in the process of downloading), but will get it on a VM and I'll update this post once I take it for a spin.

The main purpose of Element OS is to provide you with a Home Theater PC much like Mythbuntu (both of these distribution are built on top of Ubuntu). From what I can tell it uses Cooliris Media Browser in order to provide streaming of Videos. It also includes an Update Manager (shiny wrapper around Synaptic) to keep your software nice and fresh and a custom Firefox interface.

It also include Clicker TV to offer you streamed content from most of the mayor networks (CBS, ABC, Fox, Showtime, etc.), and Amazon Video on Demand.

Under the hood Element OS 1.3 is built on top of Ubuntu 9.10 and includes Linux kernel 2.6.31-22. Here's a list of other notable features:

• XFCE 4.6
• XBMC Media Center
• VLC
• Brasero CD/DVD Burner
• gThumb image manager
• Thunar File Manager
• Transmission bit-torrent client
• Additional applications through http://element.allmyapps.com

Wine development release 1.2-rc6 available

The Wine development release 1.2-rc6 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):

• Many translation updates.
• A lot of bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

• http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.2-rc6.tar.bz2
• http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.2-rc6.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

• http://www.winehq.org/site/download

You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/site/git for details.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

via WineHQ.

Heroine T-Shirts

Heroine \her-ə-wən\: a woman admired and emulated for her achievements and qualities

ThinkGeek has just added some really cool T-Shirt in honor of real Heroines taken straight from our history books.

Marie Curie - Pioneer of Nuclear Physics

It was Marie Curie's curiosity that set her and husband Pierre on the path to discover two new elements: how was it that an ore could be more radioactive than the Uranium and Thorium it contained? Could the ore house another, more radioactive element?

Ada Lovelace - The First Computer Programmer

We are fortunate that Lord Byron's marriage to Annabella Milbanke ended so poorly. Had she not had such disdain for him, she might not have insisted that their daughter Ada focus on music and, most of all, arithmetic, to the explicit exclusion of poetry.

These two awesome Ladies (Geeks) are just a tip of the iceberg when you look back at all of the great Women of science. I plan on writing a series of articles featuring these Women of Science. The main reason for my fascination with these female geeks of the past is because I plan on reading about them to my daughter which is only two and half year old, but I do believe that if she grows up with these type of heroines to look up to it will help build her confidence and desire to do great thing no matter what.

After I'm done looking at the past I will start looking at the current leading ladies in science and technology.

More Information:

• Wikipedia article on Ada Lovelace
• Wikipedia article on Marie Curie
• Definition of the work Heroine

July Issue of BSD magazine

BSD magazine Issue: July 2010

BSD Mag is a free monthly online publication available for download in PDF format.

This months issue features OpenBSD and features the following articles:

• Building a Desktop Firewall with pf and fwbuilder
• OpenBSD Some Interesting One Floppy Systems
• Remote Installation of the FreeBSD Operating System without a Remote Console
• OpenBSD as a Mail Server
• Performance Comparison ITTIA DB and SQLite
• Interview with Jeff Roberson
• FreeBSD Experience and Success Story

For more OpenBSD goodness check out the OpenBSD journal

Resources:

• BSD Magazine
• OpenBSD
• OpenBSD Journal
• FreeBSD
• fwbuilder
• ITTIA DB
• SQLite
• Jeff Roberson

My bookmarks for 07/01/2010

• Pig - a platform for analyzing large data sets

  "Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets. "

  tags: pig mapreduce hadoop analytics datamining database distributed

• Scribe - A scalable log aggregation server.

  "Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers. It is designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine."

  tags: scribe logs aggregation system administation

• murder - Scalable code deployment with Bittorrent

  "Murder is a method of using Bittorrent to distribute files to a large amount of servers within a production environment. This allows for scaleable and fast deploys in environments of hundreds to tens of thousands of servers where centralized distribution systems wouldn't otherwise function. A "Murder" is normally used to refer to a flock of crows, which in this case applies to a bunch of servers doing something."

  tags: bittorrent deployment distributed development

• Twurl

  "Twurl is like curl, but tailored specifically for the Twitter API. It knows how to grant an access token to a client application for a specified user and then sign all requests with that access token. "

  tags: twurl twitter curl oAuth

• An IRC Tutorial

  "IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a multi-user, multi-channel chatting system. Imagine sitting in front of your computer and "talking" through typed messages with either one person or many other people from all over the Internet, all in real time! Best of all, once you get set up, chatting on IRC is totally free! "

  tags: irc tutorial

• SQLite Database Browser

  "SQLite Database browser is a light GUI editor for SQLite databases, built on top of Qt. The main goal of the project is to allow non-technical users to create, modify and edit SQLite databases using a set of wizards and a spreadsheet-like interface. "

  tags: sqlite database

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