Archive for May, 2008
AP - Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse, and its top executives reaffirmed interest in joining forces with Yahoo Inc.
SofTicker is a free RSS reader which displays feeds in a scrolling bar at the top of your screen. It is not an invasive display mode and you can click on the title which is scrolling in that moment to open a tab or a new web page.
There are fourteen default RSS feeds you can manage and of course you can add your own. The good thing about this reader is that it perfectly integrates into your screen and it doesn’t take much space, just a line at the top. The news scrolls very slowly, so it is easy to read, and if you pass the mouse above, you might have a short description according to the web site that originates them. You can even choose the speed of the scrolling and the size of the words, although you can just select between a size 8 and 9. Making the font bold will render the white words more readable as the bar’s background is black.
From a usability point of view, I find for example that showing three news sources at a time and changing them at specific intervals would be more effective than scrolling just one news source which you have to follow in order to read. Moreover, having something that moves all the time on the top of your screen can be really annoying after a while.
SofTicker allows you to be always updated with the last news from your favorite website although the display mode chosen is not the most usable one.
Download SofTicker 1.1 in Softonic
AFP - Brazil, India and South Africa have lodged an appeal against a decision to grant international standard recognition to Microsoft’s Office software package, a standards agency overseeing the case said Friday.
Kino, unlike Blender, is expressly built as a video editor. The developers’ goal in building Kino is to offer “easy and reliable DV editing for the Linux desktop with export to many usable formats” (citation). I think they’ve hit that mark dead on.
Kino’s installation is trivial via yum on Fedore Core (sudo yum [...]
If you intend to distribute your video content via the web then you will want to minimize the size of your video file in order to incur the least cost in terms of bandwidth. There are three strategies that will lead to lower video file sizes: using more efficient or aggresive compression, reducing the [...]
PC World - Malicious software makers are using social networks, video sites, and blogs to peddle their wares to other online criminals.
Audio and video applications require low latency times in order to deliver high data rate content. On Linux, if you want to run audio applications such as Ardour or Rosegarden, which use JACK, then you either have to be willing to run them as root, or you have to set up the Realtime Linux [...]
Reuters - Google Inc is
supplying software technology that will let users of News
Corp’s (NWSa.N) popular social network site MySpace more
quickly search their e-mail, the companies said on Wednesday.
NewsFactor - Apple’s Leopard has some new spots, in the form of the latest version of the Mac OS X Leopard operating system, as well as a security update.
Reuters - Novell Inc turned a quarterly
profit, versus a year-earlier loss, on lower expenses and a
jump in sales of its Linux business software, it reported on
Thursday.