It’s has a really cool and simple iphone application, it reminds me so much of a recorder that i used to play while in primary school.

ocarina.smule.com/

Ocarina UI

By just blowing into the mic input of the iphone, and covering the 4 holes on the UI, different pitches are generated. I think i might be out of date, as this is such a simple application, but it has such fun! Online scores of popular songs are also available at their websites. Furthermore there are also some sharing of the music that you have played/created, a great social experience and also a graphical feast, as the blobs are floating around the globe. Reminds me much of flOw and flOwer.

Fl0wer gameplay on Youtube

Do check out this great app, it’s only 99 cents and have fun!

My first screencast, took about 1 day plus of fiddling and trying out different software.
1. In the end i used wink for the screen capture and annotation
www.debugmode.com/wink/
2. Camstudio use to capture the output from the swf
camstudio.org/
3. Audicity for trimming and fade out of MP3
audacity.sourceforge.net/
4. Virtualdub for encoding and putting the mp3 together
www.virtualdub.org/

Hope everyone enjoys it, though the upload quality is really bad.

Some links on using vimperator as well
1. www.linux.com/feature/114419
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator

Bang, we got 4 tabs in firefox. Tabs are so addictive in firefox. Normally i would have like 20 tabs or so at any one time.
Lifehacker recently reviewed another tab management extension.
lifehacker.com/5123708/tabhunter-adds-faster-tab-switching-to-firefox

I say, nar, not good enough.
I’m using vimperator. vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator

It is my favourite firefox extension which i think i can’t live without now. It is based on the concept of vim keybindings. Love VI/VIM? Vimperator is the extension for you in firefox.
Let me have a run down on how this firefox extension improved my life, increase productivity and basically makes me the master of my browser. Vimperator allows basically mouseless browsing.

I’ll try to do a screencast probably over the weekend.
Let’s do a rundown on the basic functionality that i love about vimperator.
1. How can i open a new tab? Press “t www.google.com“. It auto expands to :tabopen www.google.com, with a total of about 12 characters i can open up the google search page, without even touching my mouse! Without vimperator, probably you need to press Ctrl T, F6, www.google.com ?
2. How can i switch to another tab? CTRL-TAB and CTRL-SHIFT-TAB? Yeah, with vimperator. you press “b”, you will get a list of the tabs that are open, like in vim buffer. For example, if you have gmail in one your 40 tabs, you can press “b gm” bingo, you jump to the gmail tab if there is only a tab with the words gm.
3. How to copy the current URL location? Press “Y”
4. How to close the current tab? “d”
5. How to unclose the last tab? “u”

I use to use mouse gesture in firefox. Why bother now to use the mouse gesture to open tab and jump to the keyboard to type the url? Down left-> close tab, Down right -> unclose tab?

Oh for godsake, give vimperator a try. You will love it, take a look at this screencast done by Jean Paul
blog.jpboodhoo.com/VimperatorTeaserScreencast.aspx
Though it’s a bit confusing on that screencast, it has some basic information. Hopefully i can do a better one.

Look out for my screencast and another post on yubnub
Another “extension” to firefox.

I say SMPlayer, frontend of MPlayer. smplayer.sourceforge.net/
Two major reasons.
1. Playback speed, variable playback rate, by just pressing [ and ] . This is critical if you have backlog of videocast to watch. Basically saves about 33% of the time required to clear them. I’m using the discountinued tcpmp on my wm5 hp6965 to clear my podcast. Too many podcast as again.
2. Subtitle support, jump to next line in subtitle file. No more subtitle that are not synced.

Do try this opensource app out.