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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

20Mbps for $199/Month unlimited bandwidth

I just noticed an inexpensive hosting service, called ServerMatrix, who offer unlimited transfer capacity dedicated server hosting at 20Mbps with an 80GB HDD anf 1GB RAM for only $199 per month:

http://servermatrix.com/unmetered.html

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Write GameBoy software with the SGADE

If you ever wanted to play around with writing software on your old GameBoy that you never use there's a project called SGADE (The Socrates Gameboy Advance Development Engine), available from here:

http://www.suddenpresence.com/sgade/index.htm

Additionally, I just found that if you want to watch DVDs on your GameBoy it's all possible, and more, with this amazing GBA Movie Player cartridge from Lik-Sang:

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=6&products_id=3983&

Here's a site all about GBA movies:

http://www.gbafilm.com


Thursday, December 02, 2004

DV Cameras using Kino

While LiVES is able to edit video imported from many formats Kino is designed specifically for IEEE1394 (FireWire) DV Camera video manipulation:

http://kino.schirmacher.de/

When Kino is used in combination with a DV Camera, the JVC GR-D200 is available for only $250 for example, then fairly professional results should be within easy reach.

Online Teaching with Moodle

I just found a tool that fills a niche which I hadn't really considered to be available through Open Source Software. The niche is that of online learning site creation and the tool is called Moodle:

http://moodle.org/

Moodle is an open source CMS (Course Management System), as Moodle describes itself. In other words; it's a web based interface to create web based training sites.

As far as features go; Moodle has everything that would be needed to create a complete web based training site, including quizzes, forums, multimedia, assignment submission/upload, LaTeX mathematics equation support, surveys, and student/user management.

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Presentations with Criawips

There's a strange story behind the name of this tool, and very little information about the tool itself. Basically Criawips is a very very alpha, as of today December 1st 2004, Gnome presentation package:

http://www.nongnu.org/criawips/

and here:

http://gnome-de.org/criawips/

Once you have your presentation in pdf form you could just convert it to a series of images using:

bdash$ convert -density 100 inputfile.pdf outputfile.png

note: A multipage pdf will create images of the form outputfile.png.[0-n]

Here are some useful convert usage tips:

http://www-cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/~marko/xray/convert.html

You could then view the images as a slideshow in GQview:

http://gqview.sourceforge.net/

Or embed them in a web page using javascript to manage page reloading.