Veejay is a visual instrument and real-time video
sampler. It allows you to “play” the video like
you would play a piano. While playing, you can
record the resulting video directly to disk (video
sampling). Veejay can be operated live by using
the keyboard (which is completely user definable)
or remotely over TCP/IP. Veejay can be used to
manipulate video in a realtime environment such as
visual performances or for (automated) interactive
video installations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Easier to compile; several dependencies have been dropped (Unicap, MJPEG Tools, and GtkCairo). Faster capturing (EffecTV’s v4lutils) instead of Unicap. A command line switch to swap YUV range [0..255] <-> [16..235] on input video files. Better slow motion: interpolation of the first/last frame according to loop direction. A skin for 1024×768 reloaded has been added.
JOpt.SDK is an automated vehicle routing and dispatching component for both Java/J2SE and .NET. It can solve Travelling Salesman Problems (TSP) and Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows (CVRP,VRPTW). It offers route and transport optimisation with respect to various constraints such as time windows, load capacities, and prescribed itinerary. The component is based on genetic algorithms, and automatically determines an optimized allocation of vehicels to an arbitrary set of orders.
License: Other/Proprietary License
Changes:
The assisted mode has become the default case. The algorithm has been improved to address a broad range of problem types, and the optimization now always starts with a construction algorithm to create initial solutions. After that, the initial solution is subsequently improved by a second algorithm. Timewindow support has been added to the mixed fleet construction algorithm.
gFTP is a free multithreaded file transfer client for *NIX based machines running X11R6 or later. It has text and GTK+ 1.2/2.x interfaces and supports the FTP, FTPS (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS, FSP, and SSH protocols and has FTP and HTTP proxy server support. It supports UNIX, EPLF, Novell, MacOS, VMS, MVS, and NT (DOS) style directory listings, and has a bookmarks menu that allows you to quickly connect to remote sites. The code is fully internationalized and there are currently 45 translations available.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Improvements to the networking code, fixes for several segfaults, i18n fixes, and 38 updated or new translations.
Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a number of bugs and adds mouse support.
Kanatest is a Japanese kana (hiragana and katakana) simple flashcard tool. It offers fourteen lessons and three drill modes: hiragana, katakana, and mixed mode. The tool displays randomly selected kana characters (respecting mode and lesson) and waits for the user answer (expected as the romaji equivalent). This process continues until all questions are answered or all questions are answered correctly (depending on options). At the end of test, information about drilling time and correctness ratio is displayed. The results are stored, and a user can review his performance at any time.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Selecting kana in user-defined lessons using statistics has been added. Many improvements and bugfixes have been made.
Flickcurl is a C library for calling the Flickr Web service API. It handles the API signing, token management, and parameter encoding and decoding, resulting in C functions for the Web services APIs. It uses libcurl to call the REST Web service, and libxml2 to manipulate the XML responses. The library supports reading photo, tag, and comments information, the photo upload and searching APIs, and writing tags and comments. It provides utilities such as “flickcurl” to exercise the API and “flickrdf” to get RDF metadata descriptions out of photos, tags, and machine tags.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Support for the new Machine Tags API was added, handling machine tag namespaces, predicates, and values. Support for the updated Places API calls was added with access to ESRI shape data and URLs. Support for the (not announced) flickr.tags.getClusterPhotos was added. Some other minor fixes and improvements were made.
The Netbook, take two: When Advanced Micro Devices said it wasn’t going to focus on Netbooks, as Intel and its partners defined them, maybe it was on to something. Intel is re-evaluating the Netbook market as possibly not The Next Big Thing. This from the company that makes the Atom processor and accompanying silicon that go into most of the Netbooks sold today. At a recent Raymond James IT Supply Chain Conference (streamed via this Intel page), Stu Pann, vice president in the sales and marketing group at Intel, said his company sees the Netbook differently now.
Several months ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the Mobile Web Project in an attempt to provide up-to-date university information for its faculty, students and visitors over mobile devices. Early next year, Information Services and Technology (IS&T), the central IT department at MIT, and the team responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the software, plans to open source the code. The MIT mobile site offers a staff and student directory, a campus map, the shuttle schedule, an event calendar, class announcements for students, emergency information, and status updates for many of MIT’s tech services.
Howsoftwareisbuilt.com posted up an interview with Adam Williamson, Mandriva community manager and developer, covering some information on Mandriva development and also more general discussion on the distribution industry. I’d like to take the opportunity here to wish Adam, OSNews reader, the best of luck in finding a new job. Adam told us he’ll be leaving Mandriva at the end of December. Please note that the above interview was conducted before this news was out.
A report in the Sunday Times that Microsoft Inc is in talks with Yahoo Inc to buy the U.S. internet company’s online search business for $20 billion is “total fiction,” according to a key executive cited by an influential U.S. blog. The Sunday Times, which did not cite its sources, said the proposal under discussion involves a complex transaction that would see the U.S. software giant support a new management team to take control of Yahoo.
