Pidgin Embedded Video And Images Now Available In An Ubuntu PPA

The Pidgin Embedded Video with with the image patch has been uploaded to the Frasten PPA (thanks to Frasten for the heads up!) so you no longer have to compile it. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, see this post.

To install Pidgin Embedded Video in Ubuntu, run the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:frasten/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pidgin-embeddedvideo

Then activate the plugin from the Pidgin options.


If you don't want to add the PPA, you can also manually download the .deb file.

How To Convert .IMG Files To .VDI For VirtualBox [Quick Tip]

To convert an .img file to .vdi in Linux, so that you can directly use it in VirtualBox, open a terminal and paste this:

VBoxManage convertdd  file.img file.vdi

For instance, to convert the recently mentioned ChromeOS Cherry from .img to .vdi:

VBoxManage convertdd ChromeOS-Cherry.img ChromeOS-Cherry.vdi

To do this is Windows (I haven't tested it but it should work), open cmd.exe (Start > Run, enter: cmd.exe), navigate to "C:\Program Files\innotek VirtualBox" (using the "cd" command), then run this (after placing the .img file inside the "C:\Program Files\innotek VirtualBox" folder):

VBoxManage.exe convertdd file.img file.vdi

Please let us know if you have tried this in Windows and rather or not it worked.

To use it in VirtualBox, create a new Virtual Machine, select "Use existing hard disk" and browse for the recetly converted .vdi file:

You may also want to check out how to create a shortcut to launch Virtual Machines without opening the VirtualBox GUI (for both Windows and Linux)

"Transload" (Upload) Any Image In Firefox To ImageShak or Phyrefile Using One Click [Add-on]

Image Transloader is a Firefox extension which automatically sends any image in your browser, to ImageShack or phyrefile, copying the code to the clipboard, all with just one click. You can customize the code so that you get the image code for posting it to a forum, direct image link or HTML code for using the image into a website.

Using this Firefox add-on is very simple: just right click any image and select "Trasload to Imageshack" or to "phyrefile", depending on which service you set to be default. The image code will then be automatically copied to the clipboard. Additionally, you will have a menu to access the images you have uploaded before.

Image2mpeg Linux Converting Tool

Image2mpeg is a tool to convert digital photos (or any other images) into MPEG video streams, with transitions between the images. The photo stream may be accompanied with music (or any other audio stream). The resulting slideshow may be prepared for VCD, SVCD, or DVD playback in stand-alone players, or the MPEG videos may be converted into FLV (Flash Videos). The type of transition can be selected for each image separately from a set of fade, slide, roll, etc.

Image2mpeg also supports the Ken Burns Effect, where photos can be panned and zoomed during display.

In addition, you may want to use VCDimager to generate VCD or SVCDs from the generated streams. For DVD authoring I suggest DVDStyler.

Download Image2mpeg (source files, instructions for openSUSE and Debian) | Ubuntu .deb download