Posts tagged party
Blackberry Coming on Strong with new Stuff
Nov 10th
Blackberry is introducing new APIs for there 5.0 software. This will definnitely make their phone more competitive as new smartphones come quickly into the marketplace. The new APIs will significantly enhance productivity, functionality, and entertainability. Push functions, in third party apps is a big thing. As new apps come on line with push functionality, your message box will become increasingly important and useful.
At Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Developer Conference Monday, the company made a slew of announcements that aim to boost the platform’s appeal to developers.[Source]
The message box is already a communications dynamo. It integrates all of your email, sms, mms, and instant messaging into a single inbox. How much better can it get? Apparently much better. More message, more consolidation, more features.
Ubuntu Karmic – Codecs for DVD, MPG, AVI, and All the Rest
Nov 1st
I’ve hit this topic before, but nowadays its become much more simpler. In older releases of Ubuntu you needed to add the codecs separately, and sometimes even add a third party repository. No you just have to install the restricted extras package.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Now you can play for music, your videos, and watch your oldschool DVD if you still have them. I recommend using the default video player totem, but there are others. The popular ones are:
totem-gstreamer
totem-xine
gxine
VLC
Each one has its feature, but ultimately each will do the same thing; play your files. I used VLC for a while, but totem-gstreamer is will integrated into Ubuntu, and seems to work just fine.