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Recently I’ve been looking around the net to find some tutorials on Flash/Flex and I came across AdobeTV which has loads of tutorials.

You can look at the videos via your web browser or use Adobe’s Media Player AMP which is an AIR application that runs on pretty much any OS.

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Recently I purchased the D-Link DPH-120S as a trial and I have been impressed so far.

Setup with Trixbox was pretty easy, I only had to change the DTMF Method to outband and of course add the SIP account settings.

It has all the basic features you need like missed call log and message lamp indicator.

The sound quality is certainly better than the two DECT cordless phones I have running through a WAP54GP2 but that’s just cordless phones for you.

After downloading TrixBox 2.6 VMWare image and trying to get it to work VMWare Server 1.0.x and found that it was created for VMWare Workstation 6, VMWare Player or VMWare Server 2 Beta. I decided to convert the VMWare image for ver 1.0.x use.

The process I did.

Downloaded the TrixBox VMWare image

Grabbed QEmuInstall(do a google search and download it) if you are Windows user, if not install the qemu package on your linux box.

Convert the image from VMWare format to a raw hard disk image.
qemu-img convert trixbox-ce.vmdk -O raw trixbox-raw.hdd

Convert the raw hard disk image back to VMWare format.

qemu-img convert -f raw trixbox-raw.hdd -O vmdk trixbox-ce.vmdk

Then I created a new VMWare Session using an existing disk the trixbox-ce.vmdk

Please note this process requires that you have about 10GB or so of disk space free.

I might share a re-pack of the VMWare image for VMWare Server ver 1.0.x if people are interested. Just leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Lately I’ve been using Google Reader to keep up-to date with my RSS Vidcasts,  but that involves me downloading the video links manually when there is something new to watch until now.

I came across Miro, this program lets you auto-download videos and watch them all within one program. Of course I use my xbox with xbmc instead but It’s great to find a program that can get all the videos I want to watch for me.

Miro also lets you search all the major video sites like YouTube and Google Videos and can poll every hour to download the content you want to watch.

Check out my Miro Channel here

Another version is out 0.3beta, this version includes

- Fixed bug that caused XBMCDPI not to run if you did not have Python 2.5 installed.

check it out here

btw, Sorry to all who have taken the time to download my program to find it did not run. I appreciate the bug reports.

For a while now I’ve been looking for a easy way to get photos from Google Picasa into WordPress without exporting the photo and then uploading the image one by one.

Then I came across Windows Live Writer. Man what a difference, once you have setup Live Writer all you have to do is drag the photo from Picasa into the Live Writer window and that’s it your photo is now part of your post.

Where to download

    Windows Live Writer

Just select "Get Windows Live" and then when asked what products you want to install, you only need the "Writer" one.