Thursday, 14 February 2008

istanbul receives overhaul



Istanbul receives overhaul

Istanbul is a simple "desktop session recorder" that allows you to

create screencasts. It sits in your notification area, and to use it,

you simple click its icon. Its simplicity gave it the potential to

become a very useful tool.

However, over the past year it had fallen out of date and contained

many bugs, pretty much making it unusable in Ubuntu 6.06 - until now.

The creator, Zaheer Abbas Merali, has blogged that Istanbul has just

received a UI overhaul and can now record 3D applications as well as

composited environments (eg. XGL). For now, if you'd like to try out

these updates, you'll have to use the bleeding-edge CVS version, but

you can look forward to them in the next release.

Update: That's what I get for writing this article a week ago, but


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