Projects

I check the Official Google MacBlog regularly and, yeasterday, I read something interest on it: SpotlightFS is a MacFUSE file system that creates true smart folders, where the folders’ contents are dynamically generated by querying Spotlight. This differs from Finder’s version of smart folders, which are really plist files with a “.savedSearch” file extension. Since SpotlightFS smart folders are true folders, they can be used from anywhere—including the command line! SpotlightFS is not very complicated, and it’s a good example of what can quickly and easily be done using MacFUSE. Please check out SpotlightFS and the other cool stuff on the newly updated MacFUSE project site. ...

In English… Download blog (where guys have ever nothing to do ;) ) they have founded found* the blog of this dude, Stefanos Karagos, who have done a study about cerebral waves and their “syntony” with external sounds. Founding on this principle, he have composed an experimental audio file: a set of sounds which, based on our elevated frequency (don’t worry, no ultra-sounds!), stimulate our brain like a Cup of Coffè. ...

This web service software takes multiple word processor files (typically .doc) and converts them to OpenDocument and HTML. Web Service receives .doc file and converts it to a Oasis OpenDocument 1.0 which can then be converted to HTML, RSS, or any XML format. The resulting OpenDocument is then optionally converted to HTML or any XML. This is done with XML Pipelines, an approach that supports XSLT, breaking up content over headings or sections, and saving those results to multiple files (e.g., chapter1.html, chapter2.html…). The result is returned in a .zip file. ...

This project (see the video) is insanelly evolving and GROWING! Comments would be useless and never enough… Source, GadgetBlog. The video follows. ...

It’s a new Ubuntu-based distro: it is a “pro-target” Ubuntu, designed for: * photographers * printers * audio editors … and so on. Coming this April… Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional. Source, OSSBLog.

Mark Spencer, developer of many Open Source projects like Gaim and, obviously, Asterisk, and founder of Digium, shows us how much simple is to start a PBX with AsteriskNOW!. I spoke about AsteriskNOW here, at the time of its presentation. Source, OSSBlog.

> Title: 3D morphable model face animation by Volker Blantz This demo, if real, shows a new and fantastic system to make 3d model of our faces. With only one photo, the system can extract our face-structure, in a simple and powerfull way. Obviously, applications are infinites. Source, Gamesblog.

A new distro-based version of Asterisk, with the aim of make a smart-setup of an Astrisk PBX Server easy and quick. Asterisk® in 30 minutes or less. The most popular open source PBX software, Asterisk®, can now be easily configured with a graphical interface. AsteriskNOW™ is an open source Software Appliance; a customized Linux distribution that includes Asterisk®, the Asterisk GUI, and all other software needed for an Asterisk® system. ...

If you have an ADC (Apple Developer Connection) account and you are interested in Widget’s Development, probably you’ll consider interesting to know that Apple have released the beta of Dashcode. Personally, I’m not a Dashboard lover. I have disabled it few days after Tiger Installation: it wolf down much too much memory… and, if I need a “small-service-app”, I use an equivalent web-page or normal-app. Source, Melablog.

No, It’s not a post on politics or demagogy: it’s about foolishness!!! HD-DVD, one of the 2 “standards” of the future of Home-Movie (and Digital Video Storage in general), seems to be cracked… already. An anonymous cracker, called muslix64, have published a post on Doom9 about a very little Java program that is capable of Rip AACS-Encrypted video from an HD-DVD. More info on a page of Wikipedia dedicated to this program, BackupHDDVD. Source, The Inquier IT. ...