Unhandled Perception

OpenMenu™ has created the first standard to regulate the way restaurants store and share their menus over the Internet by standardizing the menus’ structure and format. Combined with OpenMenu Registrars, OpenMenu is providing a regulated system for sharing accurate menu information.

Link: http://openmenu.org/

get familiar with Lightworks, an Academy and Emmy award winning professional-grade editor with over 20 years of history in the film and broadcast industry. Having cut hundreds of films such as Pulp Fiction, The Departed, Centurion and Shutter Island, it includes a full feature set of editorial tools — from advanced trimming and media management, to stereoscopic support and realtime effects including multiple secondary colour correctors. Lightworks has an advanced effects pipeline, utilizing the power of your GPU. And with support for up to 2K workflows with realtime effects, it is the most advanced editing application available.

Lightworks:
http://www.lightworksbeta.com

Movies which used the software:
http://www.lightworksbeta.com/…

One DVD, 111 Open Source applications all at Opensource-DVD.

 1. 7-ZIP
2. Abiword
3. AlbumShaper
4. AllChars
5. Ant Renamer
6. Areca
7. Argumentative
8. ASuite
9. Audacity
10. AudioMove
11. AutoHotkey
12. AutoLyrix
13. AviDemux
14. AxCrypt
15. Blender 3D
16. BlockParty
17. BORG Calendar
18. Bulk Image Converter
19. CADEMIA
20. Cdex
21. Clavier+
22. Code::Blocks
23. Compact Timer
24. Console
25. ConvertAll
26. Copy Handler
27. CopyRightLeft
28. Currency Converter
29. Cuttermaran
30. Data Crow
31. Desk Drive
32. Dia
33. Disc Cleaner
34. Ditto
35. DM2
36. Double Commander
37. DoubleType
38. Drempels
39. Eclipse
40. EiffelStudio
41. Electric Sheep
42. Eraser
43. FileVerifier++
44. FileZilla
45. FireFox
46. Free Download Manager
47. FullSync
48. Ganttproject
49. GenealogyJ
50. Gimp
51. Gnumeric
52. Gpgwin
53. HDGraph
54. Highlight
55. iCopy
56. Imgv
57. ImLab
58. Incollector
59. Infra Recorder
60. Inkscape
61. iTunes Export
62. Jajuk
63. jGnash
64. KeePass
65. KeyNote NF
66. Kid3
67. Lazarus
68. LMMS
69. LockNote
70. MakeHuman
71. Marble
72. Mazio
73. Mediainfo
74. Media Portal
75. MicroPlanet Gravity
76. Miranda
77. Miro
78. Mousave
79. mtPaint
80. MySQL
81. MyTodo
82. NetBeans IDE
83. NiftyWindows!
84. Notepad++
85. Opcion
86. OpenOffice.org
87. PDFCreator
88. PDF Forms Designer
89. Poptray
90. Process Hacker
91. Processing
92. Rainmeter
93. Rawwrite
94. Really Slick
95. Rocket Launcher
96. RollerCoaster 2000
97. Sumatra PDF
98. Sweet Home 3D
99. TestDisk
100. Textreader
101. Thunderbird
102. Tor
103. TrueCrypt
104. UPM
105. Virtual Dub
106. Virtual Floppy Drive
107. VirtuaWin
108. VLC Media Player
109. VVV
110. WinHTTrack
111. Winmerge

Link: http://www.opensource-dvd.org

PDF Split and Merge is a very simple, easy to use, free, open source utility to split and merge pdf files.

What you can do:

• split your pdf documents (into chapters, single pages, etc.).
• merge many pdf documents or subsections of them.
• extract sections of your document into a single pdf document.
• mix alternate pages taken from two pdf documents in straight or reverse order into a single document.
• rotate pages of the selected pdf documents.
• visually reorder pages of a selected pdf document.
• visually compose a document dragging pages from selected pdf documents.
• save and load your environment to automatize your recurrent jobs.
• manage pdfsam settings and set an environment to load at start up.

Link: http://www.pdfsam.org

In case you don’t know, SimplePie is a way to parse your RSS items with PHP. This means that if you want to make a custom feed for yourself, SimplePie makes it… well simple. I’ve taken 14 of the top tutorials out there and put them into a nice list just for you.

SimplePie makes working with RSS Feeds a snap.

Sample of what can be done with SimplePie:

• HorseUrls: http://horseurls.com/
• Restaurant Industry News: http://openmenu.com/industry/

Link: http://thedesigned.com/…

Install multiple apps at once without toolbars or clicking Next.

1. Pick your favorite software below.
2. Click “Get Installer” and run it.
3. You’re done!

Excellent way to get your system all setup for web design / development.  Click through the applications you want, download the custom made installer and install the apps.  Couldn’t be easier.

Link: http://ninite.com/

Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal, the leading open source content management system. This is a killer combination for anyone looking to build a community around a product, sell access to premium content, offer paid file downloads, and much much more!

Link: http://www.ubercart.org/

GoogleCL is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services. It streamlines tasks such as posting to a Blogger blog, adding events to Calendar, or editing documents on Google Docs.

Currently supports:

• Blogger
  $ google blogger post --title "foo" "command line posting"
• Calendar
  $ google calendar add "Lunch with Jim at noon tomorrow"
• Contacts
  $ google contacts list name,email > contacts.csv
• Docs
  $ google docs edit --title "Shopping list"
• Picasa
  $ google picasa create --album "Cat Photos" ~/photos/cats/*.jpg
• Youtube
  $ google youtube post --category Education killer_robots.avi

Link: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/…

Watch the video to see what’s new and exciting about WordPress 3.0

Link: http://wordpress.org/development/2010…

We feature hundreds of different downloads every year at Lifehacker. If all you want is the best of the best, look no further than our annual Lifehacker Pack: One download that installs only our favorite, must-have Windows applications in a few clicks.

As with last year’s Lifehacker Pack (and its much older predecessor), the Lifehacker Pack is intended as both an up-to-date compilation of our favorite Windows apps and utilities, and an actual bundle of software you can easily install.

Link: http://lifehacker.com/…

PST Data Structure View Tool (PSTViewTool) is a tool supporting the PST file format documentation effort. It allows the user to browse the internal structures of a PST file.

Developers can now develop tools to directly interact with Outlook data files.  If you’re looking for more information on working with Outlook data files check out the interoperability press release.

Link: http://pstviewtool.codeplex.com/

Years ago Google added SSL encryption to products ranging from Gmail to Google Docs and others, and we continue to enable encryption on more services. Like banking and e-commerce sites, Google’s encryption extends beyond login passwords to the entire service. This session-wide encryption is a significant privacy advantage over systems that only encrypt login pages and credit card information. Early this year, we took an important step forward by making SSL the default setting for all Gmail users. And today we’re gradually rolling out a new choice to search more securely at https://www.google.com.

This isn’t the same as private browsing, this just means the pipe between you and Google is secure.  Keeps prying eyes, like when you’re traveling and using hotspots or Hotel connections, from viewing your searches.

If you really want private browsing then you would need to use something that bounces your connection around so your identity is never know to the site you are visiting.  This can be accomplished with something like Tor.

While you’re at it you might as well check out the recent LifeHacker post “Internet Survival Guide for Traveling Where Privacy Isn’t Respected”

Link: https://www.google.com

In this article, I’ll introduce you to the fundamentals of PHP. We’ll focus on using PHP to access Web services and on turning static HTML pages into dynamic ones by retrieving data from the Web and by showing different content depending on what the user has entered in a form or requested in the URL.

You won’t come out a professional PHP developer, but you’ll be well on your way to building a small page that uses Web services. You can find a lot of great PHP info on the Web, and most of the time you will end up on PHP.net itself. But I was asked repeatedly on several hack days and competitions to write this quick introduction article, so here it is.

Great into for anyone who wants to develop, or learn about, but hasn’t started…

Link:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…

Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, we’ve learned from multiple sources. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said. And with that release, Mozilla — maker of the Firefox browser — and Google Chrome are expected to also announce support for HTML5 video playback using the new open codec.

Link:
http://newteevee.com/2010/04/12/…

Many developers and designers want to release their work into the world as open-source projects. They want others to be able to build on and share their code. The open-source community is vibrant because of this. Open-source software is available for virtually any application you could think of. Most designers use open-source software or code on a regular basis (WordPress, Drupal and many other CMS’ are open source).

Link:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…