VLC 0.9.2 Gishenko released today

The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.2 – Grishenko.
Resulting of 2 years of development, it features many new functionalities, including a new interface for Windows and Linux.
A comprehensive list of new features can be found on our our wiki or by reading the release notes.

– From http://www.videolan.org/news.html

The first thing you’ll notice is the NEW UI. The media controls are now all placed in the lower part of the window. The play button is bigger than the other media buttons. The volume is now a rainbow slider amplying volume up to 200%. The new buttons include: Toggle Video fullscreen, Show playlist and show extended settings. The fast-forward and fast-backward buttons are removed. The player is yet to be tried

Old VLC UI

– Photo by plakboek

Youtube: Ads in Videos

For the first time I encountered an ad in a Youtube video.

First, it show up like in the image above. It will occupy 1/5 of the player with the title, the description and the link to the ad.

After a while, it will minimize showing only the title the phrase ‘Ads by Google’ and the close button.

Pressing the close button will further minimize the ad into a button with a play sign and the word ‘Ad’.

Here’s the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUdWApwbudQ

New Ipod Nanos Released Earlier Today!

New Ipod Nano

New Ipod Nano

Read more about it here.

Google Chrome Web Browser Released Yesterday

I just knew about this today! Been outdated with tech news lately. I should read Digg more often.

Google Chrome

Google Chrome Features and Download here..

Most shortcuts in Firefox also apply in Google Chrome. But, you will be missing your addons.

Things that don’t work:

• Facebook and many of its apps don’t work properly
• No subscribe to this page.. button in the location bar.

YouOS is Shut Down

YouOS is a web operating system that lets you run diverse applications within a web browser. Small applications like sticky notes or clocks. Large applications like word processing, mp3 players, and instant messaging. Even better, it’s very easy to tweak an existing application or write your own.

– YouOS Manifesto

The last entry in the YouOS blog was on October 16, 2006.  I expected YouOS to be a great tool someday. But too bad that’s not gonna happen. And too bad to all those who wasn’t able to experience running an OS in your web browswer..

First time I used it on January 2007

GMail Captcha

I just noticed it today. Has this been around for a long time now?

HowTo Create a Symbolic Link

a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution

– Symbolic LInk at Wikipedia

In Windows:

Goto to the Command Prompt.

To create a symbolic link for a file

mklink C:\Path\To\Link\File C:\Path\To\Target\File

To create a symbolic link for a directory

mklink /d C:\Path\To\Link\Directory C:\Path\To\Target\Directory

In Ubuntu Linux:

ln -s /Path/To/Target /Path/To/Link

• link – Specifies the new symbolic link name.
• target – Specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link refers to.

VisualBoyAdvance: Unsupported VisualBoyAdvance save game version 9

Unsupported VisualBoyAdvance save game version 9 (Click to enlarge)

It happenned to me when I transferred my save states from an Ubuntu Linux laptop to a Windows laptop. The main reason for this is because the save states from my Ubuntu laptop was created by VisualBoyAdvance 1.8beta3 version and on the Windows laptop was VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2.

To fix this just install the VisualBoyAdvance 1.8beta3 version

OR

If you want to use to still use whatever version of Visual Boy Advance you have in both laptops make sure that you save in-game and transfer the battery files instead.

VisualBoyAdvance: Internal battery has run dry

Internal battery has run dry. (Click to enlarge)

For Gameboy Advance games that has real-time based events like — Pokemon Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald.

You can fix this error by going to

Options -> Emulator -> Real Time Clock.

Very easy.

Real Time Clock (Click to enlarge)

Ubuntu Language Support for Filipino Dialects

Filipino is the standard language in the Philippines. It is expected that Ubuntu should support either Filipino or Tagalog. What is not expected is that Ubuntu also supports Filipino dialects such as Hiligaynon (Iloilo) and Cebuano (Cebu).

Hiligaynon

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

– From Ubuntu.com