Well as promised I’ve produced a second demo screencast for Gloss. It doesn’t contain everything I’d wanted to get in it as many of these features simply haven’t been finished. I’ve been struggling a lot with gstreamer and bending it to my will. This is shown by the simple fact that the videos shown in the screencast are […]
More Gloss
Well things have been progressing on the Gloss front, not with massive steps, but constant. I’m hoping to have a second webcast up later this week that will demo the new features such as Live TV and DVD watching. Gloss has also been given a more permanent home on Google Code. It can be found at http://code.google.com/p/gloss-mc/ and […]
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Introducing Gloss
Well its been a while between updates, things have been out of control busy (You know, getting engaged and all), but I have been keeping busy. A little while ago I discovered the Clutter project which is a OpenGl accelerated 2D framework for linux and decided that I’d have a crack at producing something with it. Seeing that […]
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Tux gambling FTW!
This picture was posted on the Linux Australia mailing list today and I thought it was great: Its a scratchy that has been issues by South Australian Lotteries, the official site for which is http://www.salotteries.sa.gov.au/games/InstantScratchiesType.aspx?p=73 I guess someone just went looking for a good looking penguin, comforting to know that Tux is the first one they found (Or […]
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My plea to Digg
Dear Digg, You’re one of my favourite websites, certainly one of the ones I visit the most, so it pains me to see you writhing in pain over this whole HD DVD key thing. If history has shown us anything though, its that sitting on your hands in a moment of crisis will do nothing but cause harm. […]
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An invitation
Many of you out there will have already been subjected to my furious advocating, but for those who missed it: This coming Saturday the newly formed Ballarat Linux Users Group (BLUG), in conjunction with Linux Users Victoria (LUV) will be holding an install-fest and full day mini-conference. The day will be held at the University of Ballarat and […]
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Gamer conspiracy theory
On a recent stumbling through the web, an article got me thinking again about first person shooters (FPS) and consoles. The article had said that, despite ‘elitist’ propaganda on the contrary, console controllers were no worse that a keyboard+mouse for FPS’ers. Now in the interests of being open, i should state straight up that I cannot, in any […]
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ASX RSS feed
Well I finally got around to ‘finishing’ another of the little projects I’d been playing with. This one is probably extremely boring to nearly everyone but me, but franklin I don’t really care, it was useful for me 🙂 Basically I whipped up a little site where you can pull Australian Stock (ASX) quotes, for any group of […]
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The Myth Monster
Well my all encompassing MythTV box is finally nearing completion! It still needs a little bit of new hardware (BIG HDD and new vid card) to go in, but its bascially done. It’ll show and record digital TV, has a pretty Web interface for when I forget to tape something before I leave the house, play normal video […]
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Superceded
Well, I knew it was going to happen, but Google finally released their own ‘official’ version of the Desktop Calendar plugin with the features I’d added, thus making my version obsolete and destined to fall slowly in Gadget ranking. They based their new version off my code but have also edited it to their own desires (Eg They […]
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