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ekiga

Submitted by rafi on December 23, 2008 - 8:02pm

Hi,
maybe we already talked about this topic here but i wanted to ask for ekiga, a great voip with video-voip support. Of course Opensource software and standart in ubuntu with gnome, like the gimp.
I think under windows it saves the profile localy on hdd and makes reg entries.

http://ekiga.org/admin/screenshots/latest/thumbnails/T_Ekiga_in_a_Call.png

It would be great to make it portable Biggrin
I would like to help but on my own computer i dont have a windows environment and at work i use linux. Maybe i will try a VM for start to help portable apps in 2k9.

here beta:

Mobile Media Converter

Submitted by getco on December 22, 2008 - 5:42pm

A very nice and light media converter for audio and video files to convert between mobile formats and desktop formats.

It converts:

from and to
Desktop Audio: mp3, wma, ogg, wav
Mobile Audio: amr, awb
Desktop Video: wmv, mpeg, wmv, avi, flv
Mobile Video: 3gp

I use it to convert my AMR files to MP3 and really love it!

You can find more info here:
http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm

It has source code located here:
http://www.miksoft.net/products/mmc-src.zip

Format Factory

Submitted by memnarch1113 on December 22, 2008 - 3:25pm

As far as I know, this is the most inclusive formatting app in the world. Its free and would be absolutely killer if run from a thumb drive. Get this app, whether or not it becomes portable.

Sega Megadrive emulator

Submitted by LucyFan on December 21, 2008 - 11:25am

Hopefully I am posting this in the right place, I recently found an old Sega megadrive in the loft and dusted it off to play some of my old favourites (showing my age there) but alas it did not work.

So I was wondering if anybody knew of as open source Sega Megadrive emulator that I could download from somewhere and if it was possible to make the aforementioned software, if indeed it exists, portable.

I know there are some DOS emulators and was hoping somebody may have come across what I am looking for.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Shareaza?

Submitted by Bruce Pascoe on December 20, 2008 - 10:00pm

About two years ago, I think John had a portable Shareaza in the works. What's the status of that? It just kind of dropped off the radar...

Fineprint Equivalent ??

Submitted by kermit.frog on December 20, 2008 - 8:41am

Firstly I KNOW 'fineprint' [http://www.fineprint.com/] is NOT open source/freeware etc & it's more of a 'driver' than a software - but does anyone know of something similar that IS Open Source & can be made portable

The one thing I find a pain @ work is the waste of paper when printing stuff out,
whether it's a Word,PDF,Excel or whatever

Yet by using a program like 'Fineprint' to squeeze 2 pages onto 1 or do double sided printing (even if it does mean manually turning the pages over) would be a god-send

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