Virtual Dimension – Virtual Desktop Manager with Transparency Support

Virtual Dimension

You are using too many softwares running at the same time and you feel that you need a bigger monitor. Well before buy that new monitor, you might want to try Virtual Dimension first. This is a SourceForge hosted free GPL licensed virtual desktop manager. You can manage multiple virtual screens as many as you want .

Actually Virtual Dimension gives you full control over the how to manage and process applications, I was just surprised and never use any other virtual desktop manager.

Some of the nice things that you can with Virtual Dimension are

  • You can move application around between virtual desktop so easily by moving the icon from one desktop to another
  • You can easily make the application to show in all desktop by right click on the icon and click on “All desktops” menu. For some applications, like application launcher, you will need to access from all desktops.
  • It comes with a very nice transparency function. You make the windows transparent! By using the short cut key, you can easily turn on and off the transparency. Or you can save the settings so it is transparent whenever you execute the application. So great!

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How to add Streaming Video in your website 2 – embed Flash Video Player

Note: This instruction requires you to have basic skills and ideas how to upload data to your website and access them in the browser. And basic knowledge in HTML. I am currently preparing WordPress plugin for FLV player. So come back later if you are interested.

Now that I have converted my old video files into Flash Video files, what do I need to do to add them in my website? I wondered.

The answer: You will need to have the Flash swf component that will play your FLV video files which will be embeded in your web page. And install or save it in your website. And add addtional javascript or embed elements in your webpage. See Wikipedia page for more information.

So I spent some time googling and tried to find free or open source (So I can probably improve it after I learn Flash 🙂 ) FLV flash player. In this Wikipedia Flash Video page, there are several players listed.

Also another player , JW Media Player is well-known but it is also free only for non-commercial. According to the website, you should buy commercial liscence if you have ads in your website such as Adsense or display banners. So basically this is not a solution for me at least.

And I do not like such limitation. Free for all cases is what I would really want. So I choose FlowPlayer and OS FLV as they are under GPL licenses.
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