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  This month’s emphasis is on hardware. We look at video acceleration, smartphone security, and new life for old devices.

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• Tech Tools

  MythTV 0.25 Released

  Android Emulator Improvements Announced

  Qt 5 Alpha Released

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• VIDEO JOCKEY

  Video jockeys (VJs) are a by-prod-uct of music TV. Instead of juggling with LPs, VJs projected colored images onto the screen. Today, all you need to be a VJ is a standard PC and the right effects program. To get started, you just need a couple of snippets of original video material and the free effects program, Veejay. According to the ads on the project homepage, Veejay “allows you to ‘play’ the video like you would play a piano.”

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• Command Line: MPlayer and MEncoder

  MPlayer and MEncoder have considerable potential, and you can control them by means of intelligent command-line options. We’ll put both programs to work.

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• Ardesia

  The Ardesia sketchpad software and compositing manager allow you to draw freehand on the desktop, so you can quickly sketch a presentation and give the audience an extra dash of information on top.

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