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Featured Linux Download: Record screencasts with recordMyDesktop - Lifehacker

RecordMyDesktop solves the screencasting problem Linux users have faced for a long time. RecordMyDesktop creates high quality recordings of your screen with or without sound. While it is a terminal application, when paired with gtk-recordMyDesktop, a graphical frontend for recordMyDesktop, recordMyDesktop becomes a robust tool for easily creating screencasts. RecordMyDesktop can be tweaked to your hearts content by changing the sound and video quality, frames captured per second, mouse cursor style, compression, and whether to record the current window or the entire desktop.

What can I say but wow! I’m looking at starting some help videos and this will be very useful for Linux. I might have used Virtual PC but some distros have been a little funny about the graphics in VPC. I ‘m looking forward to trying this out.

Linux.com :: Flock 0.9 lands gracefully

The Flock project has been building a “social Web browser” since 2005. The upcoming Flock 0.9 release adds new blogging features, integrates media streams into the browser, and includes an overhaul of the Flock bookmark system. It’s not perfect yet, but Flock 0.9 is a big leap forward.

I liked Flock a lot when I first installed it but the memory leak problem forced me back to Firefox. Hopefully they’ve fixed this problem and I can go back to it again.

Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Expert: Ben Stanley - A New Adventure! Windows Mobile and Ubuntu Linux

Despite my generally positive experience with Ubuntu, I was almost sure that there would be no way to synchronize my Windows Mobile Outlook information (contacts, tasks, schedule, etc.) with Ubuntu. But after a bit of tinkering this morning I’m amazed to report that I am able to synchronize with Ubuntu! Not only is this fact amazing standing by itself, it is even more incredible when one considers that I cannot even synchronize this data with Vista (see my complaint to this effect here)!

I was rather encouraged to see this story. I have preferred Palm as a mobile platform anyway but it’s good to have the choice when using Linux.

movabletype.org: Welcome to MTOS: the Movable Type Open Source Project

The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type 4 Beta on June 5th, 2007. The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.

This looks like something worth looking into.

Researcher: Don’t trust toolbars for Firefox | IDGNS | News | May 30, 2007 | By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

A security researcher has found that Firefox toolbars by companies like Google, Yahoo, and AOL do not update via secure connections, creating a vulnerability

One of the things that moved me from Opera to Firefox was the number of extensions and the fact they added functionality that I actually needed on a regular basis. Scribefire is one of them and I am using it now. The only snag is not being as happy with the security as I was with Opera. I’m not suggesting that toolbars and addons are created maliciously, but these days honest mistakes can be very troublesome.

I suppose I should really go back to Opera, but it is hard to go back to tasks taking longer, even though I know I’ll be safer.