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App Inventor and how easy is to work with it

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:09:47 +0000

Have you heard about App Inventor? No?

Do you want to write your own Android application instead looking on App Market for them and find that none of them are what you are looking for?

This is a App Inventor demonstration:

Now App inventor is not yet a visual programing language is just a Visual Programming Puzzle. You can do a lot of stuff with it like putting a picture with a cat and make the phone to “miou” when you touch the picture, but for now App Inventor is not letting you to write custom code blocks and do very complex applications.

For more about App Inventor go to : http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Open Source Video Conferencing

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:19:30 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:31:17 +0000

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.