August 22nd 2008

The First Step Is For Microsoft To Admit It Has A Problem Bookmark and Share

Posted in: Technology
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Ars Technica brings word of a pair of interesting efforts underway over at the Mozilla Project — both aimed at improving Internet Explorer, whether Microsoft likes it or not.
You may have heard of the first one already: ScreamingMonkey has gotten some press. It aims to make the core of Firefox’s next-generation Javascript engine (originally [...]


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August 11th 2008

wxCam 1.0.2 (Default branch) Bookmark and Share

Posted in: Linux
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wxCam is a webcam application for Linux. It
supports video recording (in an uncompressed AVI
format or Xvid format), snapshot taking, and some
special commands for Philips webcams, so you can
also use the program for astronomy purposes. It
supports both video4linux 1 and 2 drivers.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
A great improvement was made in FPS for v4l1
cameras.


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