Open Source Multimedia. Audio & Graphics & Video & Web. And games. Create Your Own Media...
Screencasts are quite popular and useful tool, especially when you want to present how exactly works some application, and how to use it. Screencasts can be saved as video files, and published on YouTube and other video-hosting websites. However, there are also tools which enable us to create screecasts stored in GIF files.
Social Networks Visualiser (SocNetV) is an Social Networks Analysis tool for Linux, Mac and Windows written in Qt4. It is a graphical application designed to be an easy tool for Social Networks Analysis and Visualisation. With it, you can load and visualise networks of various formats (GraphViz, Adjacency, Pajek, etc), and/or visually create and modify a network using your mouse.
If you start your own blog, you will soon realize that having only a web-based editor and some good ideas is not enough to become a successful online writer. It won’t help you when you try to send some files to a FTP server, prepare a PDF magazine with your own articles, edit photos, or manage your collections of links and citations. Therefore you should install some other helpful applications, very useful for all professional bloggers.
If you are a blogger, then you know almost for sure, that every popular blog has to contain some media. Photos, films, audio samples – it doesn’t matter. But very ofter it is very hard to find useful, royalty-free audio / graphic files. And, it is not easy to upload them using web-based editors.
Desktop Flickr Organizer is another Flickr photos organizer on your own desktop. However, this is not a virtual filesystem, like the described lately Flickrfs. Still, it is more useful than Flickr’s web based organizer. It can be used even you are offline.
Adding photos to Flickr using web browser can be a very annoying procedure. Thus, the better solution is to use tools, which enable us to maintain our Flickr account directly from the file manager or desktop application. Linux users may choose several solutions. I will present Flickrfs and Desktop Flickr Organizer.
FileZilla 3 is an (S)FTP-client. It is platform independent and supports operating systems like Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.
Pixelpost is a MySQL/PHP-based application allows you to publish a photoblog. You can extend Pixelpost’s functionality via addons, so you can turn your basic photoblog into a powerful photo publishing platform – writes Linux.com. The article Photoblogging with Pixelpost is available here.
PyTube allows to download videos from YouTube, encode and convert them. It also offers the possibility of searching YouTube website. PyTube allows to resize, rotate, apply an external MP3 into a video, it generates a 10 to 30 seconds MP3 ring tones (with fade-ins and fade-outs).