Gizmo Project is a program that uses advanced VoIP technology to allow you to talk with your friends around the world. Gizmo Project uses your Internet connection to make calls to people using other computers. It is simple, and allows you to talk clearly and for as long as you want.
Billed as a “Movie studio in a Linux box,” Cinlerra provides users with the ability to capture, composite, and edit audio and video with sample level accuracy. If you want to make movies, this is the tool you want with its FireWire input/output, render-farm capabilities, and support for HDTV formats.
YouTube has launched YouTube Remixer, a new service that allows users to edit videos online within YouTube’s site.
How times change. When the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and ‘Revolution’ were first announced nearly two years ago it was Sony who got the biggest plaudits, Microsoft a close second and what attention Nintendo did garner was mainly shrugs and giggles. Fast forward to June 2007 and the entire picture has reversed (which, ironically, means the Xbox 360 stays the same).
Microsoft has brought someone aboard to serve as its “Director of Linux Interoperability” and head up the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab — and his name will be familiar to people in the open-source community.
In an e-mail late Thursday night, a Microsoft representative said the role will be filled by Tom Hanrahan, who was most recently the director of engineering at the Linux Foundation, the group created through the recent combination of the Free Standards Group and the Open Source Development Labs.
