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List of UPnP AV media servers and clients This is a list of UPnP AV media servers and client application or hard appliances. UPnP AV media servers[edit] Software[edit] Cross-platform[edit] Complete Systems[edit] FreeNAS, a free NAS operating system . Microsoft Windows[edit] DivX, a Windows application, mainly for video encoding into DivX format, but has the ability to stream multimedia files via DLNA.DVBViewer, a Windows application, mainly for TV/Radio recording/playback, but with the ability to stream live TV/radio as well as multimedia files via UPNP/DLNA.KooRaRoo Media, a commercial DLNA media server and organizer for Windows. Linux[edit] ReadyMedia (formerly known as MiniDLNA) is a simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. Android[edit] vGet, Android App that can play videos embedded in websites on DLNA Renderers. Hardware[edit] See also[edit] List of NAS manufacturers – there are many uncatalogued NAS devices with UPNP. UPnP AV clients[edit] Cross-platform[edit] OS X[edit]

Linux Hardware Reviews, Benchmarking, & Gaming Roundup of Best GIMP Tips & Tutorial GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. Gimp Galaxy By Abduzeedo Although I really like the Adobe’s main product, I have seen a lot of articles about GIMP, that stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, and people creating amazing effects using this tool. Leopard’s Aurora Borealis wallpaper By Abduzeedo what I want to show on this tutorial is how to create that Aurora Borealis effect using the new GIMP. Gold Text Effect By Gimpology Learn how to create a beautiful gold text effect in the GIMP. Authentic Vintage Effect By Gimpology A beautiful effect for giving your photos an old vintage feel.

How To: Download apps from Google Play directly to your PC - Tech2.in.com We have been testing and reviewing a lot of Android phones and tablets in the recent past, and we definitely need to keep a few apps for benchmarking and other such information. In order to do the same, we initially need to set up wireless networking, punch in the credentials of the Google account, then search for the needed apps and download them. Downloading apps from the Google Play Store requires an account and hence the entire exercise. Real APK Leecher Many others who constantly do ROM installations and updates on their Android devices would also like to keep a backup of the apps. Set up the utility In order to overcome this obstacle, we found a Windows-based utility on the XDA forums, developed by the ‘Codeimba.com’ team from Vietnam, called ‘Real APK Leecher’. Get your Device ID Download the Real APK Leecher utility from here. The details of this procedure are also provided in the same window where these details need to be fed in the utility. Set the download location

uPnP and Security Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols that permits networked devices, such as personal computers, printers, Internet gateways, Wi-Fi access points and mobile devices to seamlessly discover each other's presence on the network and establish functional network services for data sharing, communications, and entertainment. UPnP is intended primarily for residential networks without enterprise-class devices. The UPnP technology is promoted by the UPnP Forum. The UPnP Forum is a computer industry initiative to enable simple and robust connectivity to stand-alone devices and personal computers from many different vendors. The concept of UPnP is an extension of plug-and-play, a technology for dynamically attaching devices directly to a computer, although UPnP is not directly related to the earlier plug-and-play technology. Overview[edit] UPnP was published as a 73-part international standard, ISO/IEC 29341, in December, 2008.[2][3][4] Other UPnP features include:

untitled High performance access to file storage Google has published code for Java to reduce the amount of hand coding needed for commonly occurring or popular features in applications. The search giant has slipped out its Google Collections Library 1.0, extending Sun Microsystems' existing Java Collection Framework. The code has already been tested in Google's GMail, Reader, Blogger, Docs & Spreadsheets, AdWords, and AdSense. The library includes new collection types for Multimap, Multiset, and Bitmap, a MapMaker builder for concurrent hash maps, and an Ordering collection Google described as "Comparator on steroids." You can read more here. Jared Levy, one of the primary creators with Google colleague Kevin Bourrillion, told JavaLobby the main benefit for developers is convenience. "The library's functionality simplifies your code so it's easier to write, read, and maintain," he told JavaLobby.

5 Ways to Tell Which Programming Languages are Most Popular Are older programming languages like Java and Perl giving way to newer languages like Python and Ruby? Is HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript overtaking Flash and/or native mobile application development? Do Microsoft’s languages still have a large developer following, even as Microsoft promotes other languages as first-class citizens on platforms such as Windows 8 and Azure? Finding the answer to these questions can be harder than you think. In many cases, of course, the popularity of a given programming language may not matter. Companies deciding what language to use for greenfield projects. There’s no definitive source of information on programming language usage and popularity, but looking at a cross-section of data sources can offer some ideas about overall trends, in terms of popularity with developers and popularity with employers. 1. Pros: This method draws on two different data sources, and reflects what developers choose to use on their own projects. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pros: ? Conclusions

The Best Application Launchers and Docks for Organizing Your Desktop Is your desktop so cluttered you can’t find anything? Is your Start menu so long you have to scroll to see what programs are there? If so, you probably need an application launcher to organize your desktop and make your life easier. We’ve created a list of many useful application launchers in different forms. You can choose from dock programs, portable application launchers, Start menu and Taskbar replacements, and keyboard-oriented launchers. Dock Application Launchers Docks are graphical application launchers that enhance and organize your desktop. RocketDock RocketDock is an application launcher, or dock, for Windows that sits along one edge of your desktop. We’ve previously shown you how to install, use, and extend RocketDock and how to make RocketDock portable. ObjectDock ObjectDock is another dock for Windows that is similar to RocketDock. There is also a paid version ($19.95) of ObjectDock that allows you to create as many docks as you want and to add tabs to your docks. RK Launcher

Digital Living Network Alliance - DLNA The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a nonprofit collaborative trade organization established by Sony in June 2003, that is responsible for defining interoperability guidelines to enable sharing of digital media between multimedia devices.[3] These guidelines are built upon existing public standards, but the guidelines themselves are private (available for a fee). These guidelines specify a set of restricted ways of using the standards to achieve interoperability and include almost no free audio formats and only the most common (free or otherwise) video formats, meaning that DLNA servers generally have to support transcoding in order to produce a useful service.[4] DLNA uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management, discovery and control.[5] UPnP defines the type of device that DLNA supports ("server", "renderer", "controller") and the mechanisms for accessing media over a network. History[edit] Specification[edit] Home Network Devices[edit] Member companies[edit]

Biblioweb spinn3r-client - Google Code This projects implements client bindings to access the Spinn3r web service. All of our drivers will be released under the Apache 2.0 license. The APL is a very liberal license and basically allows customers and researchers using the Spinn3r API to build whatever type of application they want on top of our platform without having to worry about legal and licensing implications. The Spinn3r API is a firehose API of live weblog, microblog, and social media content and is fetched and updated it in near real time. Users of the reference client run it from the command line as a daemon and write .protostream files to a directory on their hard drive. Once the .protostream files are written to your local disk you can use a C#, perl, python, or C (including any language where protocol buffers are supported) client to read the protostream and index the data specific to your application. Documentation Permalink API

Top 7 Semantic Search Engines As An Alternative To Google There’s no denying the power and popularity of the Google search engine, and in comparison to other similar search engines such as Bing, where results are based on page rankings and algorithms, they excel. But there are other ways to search the web, using what are known as semantic search engines. Using a semantic search engine will ensure more relevant results based on the ability to understand the definition of the word or term that is being searched for, rather than on numbers. Semantic search engines are able to understand the context in which the words are being used, resulting in smart, relevant results. This is a list of the top 7 search engines to get you started in the world of semantic searching. Kngine Kngine’s search results are divided into either web results, or image results. Kngine currently contains more than 8 million Concepts, and that is where the site’s strength lies. Hakia Hakia can also be added to the list of search engines included in your browser’s quick search bar.