PeterMaking video recordings of your screen can be very useful. If you're trying to demo something to someone or just want to record something on your desktop, it can be an invaluable tool.
One such program for recording your Linux (or other X11-based) desktop is Istanbul.
Istanbul is very easy to use and creates open standard Ogg Theora files that will play back on any modern Linux distribution (you …
PeterMyself and Chris Van Patten (of sister site YouMakeMedia) recently interviewed Mark Kennedy, CEO of Celtx. Celtx is a commercial open source product for media production. It bills itself as:
Celtx is the world’s first fully integrated solution for media pre-production and collaboration. It replaces old fashioned ‘paper, pen & binder’ media creation with a digital approach to writing and organizing that’s more complete, simpler to work …
JacobLet's face it: setting up a full-scale web server and site is hard, no matter what OS you use. You need server software. You need databases, scripting engines, libraries.
Nobody likes taking the time to set up a server like that manually, and the folks at BitNami realized that. They bring to the table BitNami Stacks, and already the name gets you thinking of what it does.
Offered …
PeterWhether it's physical sticky notes, text documents you save on your desktop or something else, most of take notes. Reminders to do things or snippets of information you might need later.
While the latter method of text documents on your desktop is a way in which you can keep notes on your computer, it's not all that efficient and useful.
Enter Tomboy. Tomboy is a note-taking application for GNOME, …