Transcode Video For The HTC Incredible on Linux
If you regularly follow my blog you know that I recently got an HTC Droid Incredible smartphone. This phone has a native screen resolution of 480x320 pixels. MPEG4 video with AAC audio is supported in both the .mp4 and .3gp container formats. Read more
Shorten Your Links The Open Source Way
If you're a big social networking user, you're probably familiar with link shortening services. The most popular of these are TinyURL and bit.ly. As an open source fan, you may be wondering, "where can I find a free and open source link shortener?" Read more
Gnumeric: A Light Weight Spreadsheet Program
Most Linux and Open Source enthusiasts are familiar with the OpenOffice.Org office suite. OpenOffice is great, but sometimes you just need a lighter and faster alternative. Maybe you've got a netbook or an older computer and you don't need a full, integrated, office suite, but just a few of the main applications like a word processor and a spreadsheet program. Gnumeric is one such spreadsheet program.
Gnumeric is available for Linux and 32 bit Windows. If you're running Ubuntu Linux, you can install Gnumeric from a terminal with Read more
New Android Phone
So I finally got myself an Android smarphone. It's the HTC Incredible on Verizon Wireless. I'm still getting it figured out, but so far it's pretty cool. I downloaded the WordPress application for Android and I'm using it to write this post.
Well, I was able to upload the post, but it went in as a draft. It looks like I've got more to figure out.
Free vs. Proprietary and HTML5
I just read a couple of articles (x264Dev and Phoronix) about the latest open source decoder for the recently open sourced VP8 codec from Google/On2. It turns out that the new ffvp8 decoder library from the FFmpeg developers is already outperforming the libvpx decoder that was released as open source by Google back in May. Read more
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