After a long series of editing, the videos from August penguin are avilable to be watched and downloaded. Thanks to all the people that participated in this voluntary project. The files are available in a flash viewer, or to be downloaded in MP4 and OGG formats.
Moreover, during the editing I have developed two tools for the Cinelerra video editor, those are also available for download.
Enjoy Watching
Hi all,
I am happy to announce that I am flying to represent my country in the ITU Telecom conference in Bangkok. I am going to be there between the 30th of August and 6th of September. I am going there as a part of the youth forum, which is a nice way because all expenses are taken care of.
The goal of the ITU is to take care of telecommunication standards and you can read about them in Wikipedia. However I am going to a conference whose main objective is closing the digital gap in third world countries.
Hey all,
This weekend I am once again editing the video of the lectures we took at August Penguin, the Israeli open source community yearly meeting. This year it was kinda hard because there were two lectures being given simultaneous, so there are about 8 hours of video to edit.
Like last time, I am editing the videos with Cinelerra, the open source video editor. Last year I also wrote a post in Hebrew while editing the video, and I was hoping to keep the tradition. Also, this year, I have a little code surprise :-).
Hey All,
My bank seems to block my Iceweasel (Firefox) browser off their site. So here is a Greasemonkey script I wrote to bypass this problem.
If anyone else has this problem, please use this script.
Guy
In the past few days, I wrote a script that will take basically any video file, chop it to equal parts under 10 minutes, and upload the result to youtube.
The effect is that I can publish all of my video podcast to youtube, without the long and painful chopping and uploading of files via a browser.
I based the uploading on a perl script from catonmat. I wrote my extension in python.
Here is a link to the sourcecode (under GPL license)
I would love to receive feedback, and improvments.
Bre Pettis, was the MAKE magazine Podcast maker, the famous DIY magazine.
A few months ago, aired a podcast about making sympathy dolls. I started to make a doll for my girlfriend, when I stumbled on a secret message, that made me do this:
I got in contact with Bre over Jabber (Gtalk) he did like the 555 chip addon, however he also told me that he isn’t working for MAKE anymore 
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A little disappointing, however, I still have a cool doll….
Hello all,
This post isn’t related to software for a change. Its about Irish music.
During the weekend, I was in Jacobs Ladder Winter festival. And I took my video camera with me. I really just chucked it somewhere, and placed a microphone in the middle of us, while we played in the main session, managed by Braha Avraham (the general session scheme is that someone starts a tune, and those who know it join in, its all spontaneous!). Also in some parts, Colum Sands, from Ireland joined in. Also Shay Tochner, a well known local musician joined in.
I was surprised how much of it actually came out, so I am uploading it all here as a reference.
Also, I recorded two songs that Colum Sands sang. I am linking them here too (With his permission).
Lastly, I have all of these videos in high quality digital video files. I can make mp3s or better video out of any of them. If anyone wants to do something with them, contact me, I’d love to help.
You can view them from bellow, or go in the youtube playlist i made for them.
I have a good solo in Part 10.
Hello all,
I thought I might share a small of report of an event that happened to me in Second Life, and also, I thought i’d use the opportunity to show the podcast world in second life.
Hello all,
I am starting to work on the first Israeli video podcast, and we are now trying to figure out what format to publish it under. While pondering about this, I wrote a graphical program that will let you convert Video files for PSP format. And it should also run on iPods (however the screen resolution is specifically for PSP).
The program uses a command I found somewhere (you can see it in the code). The GUI is written in wxpython, which I just started learning not long ago. It is really useful for these small apps.
The requirements to get this working are:
To run it just type:
python pspenc.py
This is really a translation of a post I wrote in Hebrew out of Linmagazine.
Here is my own DIY guide to build a waveguide antenna. This antenna will dramatically boost your wireless connection to a specific direction, enabling connectivity to great distances.
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