Nisi’s work blog

Nisi’s work blog – programing tips

Open Source Video Conferencing

Every project where people from different location are involved need a Video Conferencing solution. Usualy phone or video calls are used but what you do if you need to have a presentation for some charts or some source code? Then you buy or rent video conferencing services.

Now there is an open source alternative and it came with the name BigBlueButton.The application enables multiple users to login and share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same time, upload office documents or keep everyone in sync with their current page and mouse pointer

More about BigBlueButton on http://bigbluebutton.org/

Some video Overview: http://bigbluebutton.org/content/videos (they say then one image are equivalent to 1000 words and there are 5 movies so … )

Free AMR player and converter

These days I was needed to see a short movie from a Nokia phone and for my surprise was AMR format witch my default I could not see it on my computer. So I did find a free software “AMR audio player software“, witch can play and convert your amr file into mp3.