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Gaim-vv – Gaim with Webcam and Voice support

Gaim Logo

Do you miss the pleasure of viewing your friends’ webcam after you migrated to FOSS Operating System? Well, now you can try gaim-vv!

Gaim-vv is a fork of the multi-protocol messenger gaim project which support webcam and voice chat, which will eventually be backported to the main gaim project, when the functionality is complete.

Though currently only supports viewing webcam (no broadcasting support yet!) from Yahoo and MSN protocol, the main project of the Gaim-vv is to support full webcam and voice functionality of any IM protocol by developing a general framework to do that.

I’ve tried the latest release of gaim-vv, and i find it stable and useful enough to view my friends’ webcam. You can download gaim-vv and it’s depending library at gaim-vv website, make sure that you read the documentations first!

For those who are using Ubuntu and Debian, you can add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file :

#gaim-vv
deb http://people.debian.org/~smimram/debian unstable main
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~smimram/debian unstable main

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Joomla! 1.0.0 is available for download!

Joomla!, a content management system based on the popular Mambo Open Source is now available for download. This marks the first Joomla! release after a group of Mambo former developers decided to form a new project over a dispute with Miro International.

Overall, the current version of Joomla! (1.0) is not much different than Mambo 4.5.2, be it the installation, administraton, and the main content page. The most noticable changes is mainly to the name Mambo being replaced by Joomla! to reflect the new directons.

  Joomla Screenshot

According to Joomla! website, Mambo modules, themes and database (except patches) can be use with Joomla! 1.0. However the Joomla! developers made no claim about its compatibility with Mambo in future releases, cited that both of the projects is heading different directions now.

Well, I don’t find appealing reasons for me to switch to Joomla! right now, hope the next version of Joomla will implement features that was held back in Mambo Open Source.

Here’s a link for those interested to download Joomla! 1.0

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Microsoft Xbox 360 isn’t so worldwide after all

The new Microsoft Xbox 360 game console is going to be region-locked for both games and DVD. This means that you can only play games or watch DVD from the same region your Xbox 360 is locked to. The region-lock imposed by Microsoft may prevent you from buying some hard-to-get games abroad and play it on your Xbox 360, because the game might not be playable on the console!

Ironically, The Xbox 360 is scheduled to be launched world-wide by the end of this year and was touted being a world-wide brand, yet it’s media and software cannot be use “worldwide”.

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Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy and GNOME 2.12 LiveCD

Today, I finally had the time to sit down and blog about my experience using GNOME 2.12 via GNOME LiveCD.

I had great experience testing out GNOME 2.12 LiveCD, it has exceeded all of my expectations from a demo cd. I can do most of my work using only the demo cd, like reading and printing documents, get online, watch movies, listening to music/radio, instant messaging and obviously blogging ;). The CD also includes some pictures from GNOME community events as well as freely distributable musics and videos .


Gnome 2.12 LiveCD Why I haven’t use GNOME 2.12 on any of my operating systems? Because I’m waiting for Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) to come out. Just to let you know, the official GNOME 2.12 LiveCD is based on Ubuntu 5.10 which will be released officially on October 13, 2005. I’m satisfied with the LiveCD and thus i’m satisfied with Ubuntu Breezy too!

Well I guess that’s all for now, time to go to sleep.

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Finding your stuff with Google Blog Search

I’ve just noticed that now you can search blogs using google at http://blogsearch.google.com/. Having this kind of search engine means that you can search blogs for specific terms with ease.

Still in Beta, the Google Blog Search isn’t only limited to blogger.com users, but it also covers other blogs too. Utilizing the Google Search, the site is certainly useful if you want to know about particular thing that people have blogged about.

But since blogger.com is owned by Google itself, seems that the company has given extra attention to blogs based on blogger.com. Well, seems pretty logical for me…

Refer here for more information about Google Blog Search.

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jar2jad – My first python application

I’m publishing my first python apps from my self-taught python class as promised.

This apps generates JAD file from *.jar file which is widely used in J2ME java mobile application. This apps is simple+compact and can be executed in any platform that supports python.

I was going to publish this earlier, but I’ve been busy for the past few days doing other stuff besides python.

Download links

  1. jar2jad-0.1.tar.gz
  2. jar2jad-0.1.zip

Python is interesting, i might create and publish more apps in python to polish up my skills.