Jan 062011
 

recoll
Article wrote by: Francesco Di Leo
Actually, I tried them all, from the mythical Beagle to Tracker. Beagle is now in effect a dead project. It was quite interesting, able to search many types of files and miscellaneous information, but personally I was not willing to use so many resources for Mono. Patience, they had developed from the outset with the standard libraries perhaps it might be on all computers. I tried other less known programs, Catfish, Pinot and some other that escapes me, cursed memory, up to lead to Tracker a searching program for files (and information) for Gnome. Until version 0.6 it seemed that someone had finally decided to engage seriously in the implementation of a program that allowed me to not always use the memory to remember which file or e-mail contained the information i was searching for. I was promptly denied (and betrayed).

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Jan 032011
 

dark resurrectionI know that is not related to items usually presents on this blog about Linux and open source, but today I want to present to you the project “Dark Resurrection“.

Dark Resurrection is an experimental Non-Profit movie inspired by Star Wars and split into two episodes lasting 60 minutes each.
Even if it has been realized with limited means and with a very low budget (approximately 7000 Euro) the LucasFilm itself, after having watched the trailer, defined it “Truly Amazing”.
Result of both digital technology and creator’s passion, this project has attracted the attention of the most important italian magazines (Ciak, Jack, XL, Panorama etc etc).

The cast is mainly composed by amateurs, but there are also several professionals who have been attracted by all the rumors generated by the trailer on the web. These professional actors decided to offer their collaboration for free.”

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Dec 282010
 

LinuxariaIt seems almost incredible, but www.linuxaria.com has reached its first 100 articles, I take this opportunity to thank all those who followed and contributed to the success of the Blog, and also to make some statistic and publish the top 10 (for rating among the first 100 published articles) .

But first a bit of promotion, if you like the site, prove it to me and do not miss a single item via:

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Dec 202010
 

recordmydesktopAfter reading the article “How to create a screencast of your Linux desktop” I started doing some test of screencast with the program recordmydesktop.

In particular, I did some testing with both the gtk frontend to the command line, but unfortunately in the first trials i was not able to get any sound in the video.
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