I realize that this post is quite late, but it has been difficult to get enough time to find an Internet connection to post this week’s notes. Here’s all the details for the MLR segment on Global Geek #60.
Our first application this week is from “Fluffalope Factory” software called Miyu. This program allows you to quickly and easily add text to a movie file. THis can be very useful for home movies, or in subtitling a video in another language. The simple interface allows you to select the section of video you want the text added to, and simply type it in. The realtime preview shows precisely where the words will line up in relation to the frame, so it’s easy to make adjustments in timing and wording on the fly.
There does seem to be some issue with file types. I tried to run through some files using MPG videos that I had gotten from friends, one worked and the other didn’t. When I ran through a QuickTime trailer I got off the Internet, it worked without a hitch. Miyu is a free application.
http://www.fluffalopefactory.com/miyu/
Second on the docket this week is another desktop updating application called Desktoptopia. This application is another automated desktop changer like DeskLickr that I covered a couple of weeks back.
Instead of taking images from Flickr, it can read from any RSS-based photostream including flickr, iPhoto “photocasts” and others
The interface offers options to change the desktop at a set intervals, and will allow you to select from one or more of the RSS feeds that you’ve entered into the system.
Desktoptopia is not a free application, and does cost about $20 USD. But it works well, integrates directly with the System Preferences panel and is very quick and responsive. The initial trial of Desktoptopia is a 10-day trial and will give you a good idea whether or not you want to spend the money for this nice aesthetic touch.
Third up this week is a Mac-specific browser based on the Mozilla “gecko” platform called Camino. Camino started life back in 2001 as the “Chimera” project, a mozilla based browser targetted at the OS X platform. This was the first “browser only” project to breakaway from the old Netscape suite. just under a year later, a project to fulfill the same need for all platforms. That project was called Firefox.
Camino is like Firefox’s little brother. it does most of the same things, some of them more quickly, but it’s always been a step or two behind.
It does do a few things more quickly, page render times have been documented on several websites as being 10-15% faster. This isn’t a huge difference in most cases, but it is a “feature”.
Many firefox extensions have similar counterparts for Camino, but because of the different codebase, the extensions typically aren’t interchangeable.
If you want a Mac-specific browser, and Safari just doesn’t “do it” for ya, check out Camino. As for me, I’m sticking with Firefox.
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