Author: Jeff
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How do you visualize grouping?
Here’s a tricky usability question: how would you represent the actions of grouping and ungrouping clips on a timeline? (Un)grouping is used for changing the way selections affect a set of clips. It allows you, among other things, to separate and remove the audio from the video of a clip. It is very hard to…
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PulseAudio 2.0 + Empathy = awesome
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for months. You may remember me being a fan of SFLphone. Well, turns out that for the past year, I’ve been using only Empathy to do my VoIP calls. All you need to do is install telepathy-rakia to have SIP support (and then you can use Ctrl+M to start…
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Autohiding fullscreen toolbar, error dialogs and file format filtering
Here’s one of the reasons why I’m not exactly in a hurry to learn C. When you ask me to read through C code, this is what happens: No jokes. Even after simplifying and compacting the code, it’s still such a pain for me to navigate through C that I actually felt the need to output…
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Reducing our core apps' software inventory
In my free time, I try to help other open source projects get rid of accumulated weight from the years. At GUADEC 2012, I told the Epiphany devs that the 3.x series (with its new design direction/vision and the gradually improving WebKitGTK backend) would be the perfect opportunity to close massive amounts of old bug…
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YouTube considered harmful
This morning, there was a nice surprise waiting for me in my inbox: apparently Dragons Dream infringes “La Red”‘s copyright. Bullshit. My video does not infringe on anything. It is a pure mashup of Elephants Dream and Sintel. No other music, sounds or visuals were used. Yet, they claim that the visuals belong to La Red (whatever/whoever…
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Why you should be using GES
Thanks to our friends from Ubicast, there is a nice recording of the talk I gave with Thibault in San Diego. Unlike what the title says, this is actually not a case study 🙂 it is aimed at those of you who are wondering what GES is all about, why it matters, how it works, and…
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M60 2012
I went to see one of the screenings of the Montréal 60 seconds film festival Friday night, it was really entertaining (there’s a final screening tonight if you missed the first two). As expected, there were some dubious movies, lots of good/okay ones and a couple of wonderful gems. It was nice to see my…
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Le filet de badminton
Je me suis dit que ça serait bien de tendre une corde entre les escaliers et un des arbres du jardin, histoire de balancer des serviettes dessus et de s’en servir pour jouer quelques parties amicales de badminton. Sauf que mon père ne fait pas les choses à moitié. Le lendemain, il y avait ceci…
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Ducknapping
Following up on Seif’s blog post, I would like to provide you with an update on our efforts to recover the missing duck. We’ve been in a very delicate situation lately. It turns out that a group of hacktivists kidnapped Duckie! They sent us this picture: As you can imagine, until now we refrained from…
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GUADEC talk video published
No no no, I said video, Not videos. Seems like even though I spent hours editing and rendering a single recording, I’ve still beat the GUADEC organizers when it comes to “time to publish” 😉 My “neko edit” also has good sound quality (from a dedicated USB microphone) and high resolution versions of the slides…