CHDK: Unleash the POWER in your Canon PowerShot! – “ Canon Hack Development Kit; Temporary – No permanent changes are made to the camera. Experimental – No warranty. Read about the risks in the FAQ. Free – free to use and modify, released under the GPL.“
gPhoto: Freedom From Film – “gPhoto2 is a free, redistributable, ready to use set of digital camera software applications for Unix-like systems, written by a whole team of dedicated volunteers around the world. It supports more than 1100 cameras.“
Granite Bay Software: Time-lapse Software for Canon Digital Cameras – “In the past time-lapse photography was done with very expensive film cameras, but with digital photography it has become much cheaper and easier. If you have a Canon digital camera, you can create interesting and beautiful time-lapse videos.“
ffmpeg – “FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library.
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Audadcity – “Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.“
VirtualDub – “VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.“
Replicator: Replicator Cinema – 3D Printing Videos – “A super clear and concise explanation of a MakerBot at CES 2010. Not addressed in the video is the fact that they are now selling ~150 kits a month at $750-950 each. putting them at $1-1.7MM in revenue“
Make: Build a Better 3D Printer, Win $100K! – “The Foresight Institute has announced its Kartik M. Gada Humanitarian Innovation Prize to design and build a better RepRap. There is an interim prize of $20,000, and a grand prize of $80,000. They consulted with the core RepRap team before the announcement and we were initially concerned that the prizes might drive developers to secrecy in order to give themselves a competitive edge.“
Alex Bosworth: Building HTML5 Webapps – “In the revamp of TweetBe.at and for another contract project for the iPhone browser I’ve been working a ton with new HTML5 (+CSS3) features, and I’m finding them very very useful in building rich web applications, although new capabilities are not without their perils.“
TopUp: The #1 Javascript Pop Up / Lightbox – “TopUp is an easy to use Javascript library for unobtrusively displaying images and webpages in a Web 2.0 approach of popups. “
Wiseheart Design: The Demise of Plain CSS: Why Sass And Languages Like It Will Triumph – “Sass is essentially a programming language for designers. It is extremely limited when compared with other languages, but it does a magnificent job of translating the core concepts of a programming language in a way that makes sense for styling a document.“
Sass: Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets – “Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is CSS, plus nested rules, variables, mixins, and more, all in a concise, readable syntax.“
Second Life Blog: Coming Soon: Viewer 2 Public Beta – “With Viewer 2, our revamped web site, a new Orientation Island and much more, we’ve taken a step back and tried to create an end-to-end experience that will be much more compelling and relevant for a new Resident. There’s still more to do, but we believe we’ve made a pretty dramatic step forward.“
Lifehacker: Learn Proper Sushi Etiquette to Make a Good Impression – “Like many aspects of Japanese culture, there’s a certain etiquette to eating sushi. Take the time to peruse these helpful tips so you can make the best impression on your sushi chef or dining companions the next time you’re downing some maki“
OpenShot: OpenShot 1.0 Has Arrived! – “I am proud to announce that OpenShot Video Editor 1.0 has just been released! This release is jam-packed full of new features, bug fixes, and some shiny new graphics! We hope you enjoy it!“
Thinkbalm: The Enterprise Immersive Software Decision-Making Guide – “The Enterprise Immersive Software Decision-Making Guide is a use case-based guide designed to aid business decision makers in the enterprise immersive software selection process. In this report, we present “if/then” scenarios and highlight good-fit vendors for common situations, with a focus on the most prevalent use cases: meetings, conferences, and learning and training.“
Official Second Life Blog: Diary of a Paranoid Mysql Upgrade – “We first tried to upgrade way back in November of 2007, but it turned out that 5.0 was just not fast enough, despite what sysbench and our other benchmarks had indicated. After two or three long, wretched days of cascading downtimes, degraded services, and intermittent data loss, we gave up and rolled back to 4.1, all thoroughly traumatized by the experience. This is the story of our successful second attempt, and all the things we learned and checked and verified in order to make it successful.“
Official Second Life Blog: Happy New Year! Looking Back…Looking Ahead – “You’ll recall that we replaced the original LSL virtual machine with Mono in 2008 — which runs LSL much, much faster. Next up is allowing content creators to use a much richer language for scripting (C#) that will open up Second Life to a larger community of developers“
Caleb Booker: Virtual Worlds as Green Workplaces? – “At a recent panel discussion in Second Life, hosted by the US Department of State, experts from industry and the non-profit world pondered some fairly topical questions: to tele-commute OR not to tele-commute?“
New York Times: The Other Plot to Wreck America – “Americans must be told the full story of how Wall Street gamed and inflated the housing bubble, made out like bandits, and then left millions of households in ruin. Without that reckoning, there will be no public clamor for serious reform of a financial system that was as cunningly breached as airline security at the Amsterdam airport.“
Lifehacker: Use Better Tools to Be a Better Student in 2010 – “What good is all the computing power of the pre-1960s world sitting on your lap if you’re not using it to make college life easier? The following is a guide for students everywhere that want to spend less time on the tedious stuff, and more time on the things like study and research that actually produce results.“
Machinimatrix: Primstars – “This is a short film about a builder who receives the order to create a five pointed star. Unfortunately she has not the slightest idea how to manage this built in the given time. So she activates her strongest weapon against lack of knowledge (again) …“
