Showing posts with label Ubuntu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ubuntu. Show all posts
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
EZDVD is back!
Hey all, I'm working on my application again after being ludicrously busy with other stuff (much more boring than this!) Anyhoodlums, I've prototyped a new interface,
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
EZ DvD Ripper Beta!
Hey all! Just an update, I have uploaded a beta version of my EZ DvD Ripper here.
Now I must warn you that a) the progress bar doesn't yet work and there is no "Balanced" either. I have tested the other two and they seem to be working well. I have had particularly nice results with the "Slow" setting although it does take an age.The Fast setting produces pretty good results too and transcodes an awful lot...well...faster!
To run it you'll need to execute from the command line for the moment due to the lack of progress bar. I know I know! It's meant to be simple. It will be I promise I've just had a life to get on with lol.
Now I must warn you that a) the progress bar doesn't yet work and there is no "Balanced" either. I have tested the other two and they seem to be working well. I have had particularly nice results with the "Slow" setting although it does take an age.The Fast setting produces pretty good results too and transcodes an awful lot...well...faster!
To run it you'll need to execute from the command line for the moment due to the lack of progress bar. I know I know! It's meant to be simple. It will be I promise I've just had a life to get on with lol.
Monday, 2 August 2010
The Great Windicator Mystery
After the much anticipated release of Ubutnu 10.04 Mark Shuttleworth gave his opinion on where to take the UI experience. These Windicator things seem to be at the forefront of the so called improvements.
I don't tend to shirk from change. In the Open Source world, that seems, counter-intuitive. However, I may be mistaken but, I haven't heard or seen anything since his annoucment. October is closing in fast and I'm not seeing any evidence of them. Not that I'm complaining, there has been a lot of progress with the sound and messaging menu which actually matters more to me than the windicators. But still I was quite excited by it. It signalled a new way to think about Linux as a whole. It would have more of an identity. Something that has been highlighted recently with Fedora's row with Canonical regarding their contributions to Gnome. The whole thing is ridiculous but thats by-the-by.
I'm still very excited for the new release of Ubuntu. I fully expect it to be full of bugs but we all know they'll be fixed pretty quickly. Only Time will tell.
I don't tend to shirk from change. In the Open Source world, that seems, counter-intuitive. However, I may be mistaken but, I haven't heard or seen anything since his annoucment. October is closing in fast and I'm not seeing any evidence of them. Not that I'm complaining, there has been a lot of progress with the sound and messaging menu which actually matters more to me than the windicators. But still I was quite excited by it. It signalled a new way to think about Linux as a whole. It would have more of an identity. Something that has been highlighted recently with Fedora's row with Canonical regarding their contributions to Gnome. The whole thing is ridiculous but thats by-the-by.
I'm still very excited for the new release of Ubuntu. I fully expect it to be full of bugs but we all know they'll be fixed pretty quickly. Only Time will tell.
