Well, I'm Jason Kivlighn, a developer for Krecipes. Krecipes has been evolving very rapidly and there are two big additions in particular. I've added recently the ability to save and load recipe layouts to a file. We'll be including some layouts with the program, so I thought you might could get the word out that we'd accept any creative layouts users submit to us ;)

The other addition is the new field for inputting the "preparation method". This helps keep the database better organized, and also helps out a lot with making a shopping list or calculating nutrient info. For example, this way you won't end up shopping for both 'shredded carrots' and 'whole carrots' :) Also, you don't need to store nutrient info, for example, for both 'shredded carrots' and 'whole carrots'. Just load the nutrient for carrots and you're done.

This talk of nutrient info remind me of another relatively new feature added (within the past month). The latest Krecipes CVS now includes the USDA's nutrient database and allow users to load the USDA into the Krecipes database. With this information, Krecipes can automatically calculate all the nutrient info for a recipe.

Finally, I should mention that Unai recently finished an "Ingredient Matcher". In his words:

"Say you look at your fridge. You only have ham, cheese and eggs, and don't know what to cook with it.

Well, then choose in the list "ham, cheese, eggs" (all). It will tell you what's possible to cook using those ingredients."

We have the pleasure to announce the 0.2.4 releases of both Kdenlive and PIAVE. This primarily a bug-fix release over the previous 0.2.3 release, although several new features have been added.

Kdenlive is a video editing GUI for KDE. It provides dual video monitors, a multi-track timeline and clip list. Other features include customizable layout support, preliminary support for effects and translation into French.

PIAVE is a render engine and effect library. It can read DV video files, render effects and transitions between input streams. Streams can be displayed or piped to a file. Any project can link against libpiave and use the provided features. PIAVE also provides a server application which can receive commands from Kdenlive.

Editing in Kdenlive is possible with various tools via the timeline and video monitors, allowing you to move and resize one or more clips, and razor clips into two. All timeline tools can snap to clip start/ends and the current seek position.Kdenlive communicates via an XML based protocol to a render engine which handles the actual video data.

New Features Include:
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• Italian Translation by Daniele Medri
• Initial support for importing Kino project files. (Seems complete, but not fully tested)
• Preliminary support for snap markers
• Play selected button on clip monitor.

Some important features are still missing, but Kdenlive is now useable for small projects. We would like people to test what we have and tell us which features they miss the most. We want to find out what is most important to people, and last not least we want to attract developers. There are many small and not so small things where people could help. Be it GUI development, XML/network development, development of plugins, or simply reporting bugs.

What you can already do:

• Open files in raw DV and AVI DV format (e.g. from dvgrab)
• trim / cut / arange the clips in the timeline
• scroll / step through the project
• play the project
• load / save projects
• export the project to a raw DV file

What you cannot yet do:

• control your DV cam and grab clips (supported by piave but not available via kdenlive)
• import or export other fileformats
• handle sound and video separately
• effects and transitions are not yet configurable via the GUI which means they are practically not available.

Additional Information / screenshots can be found in the following places:

Kdenlive
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Home: http://www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kdenlive.html
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kdenlive/

I would like to introduce my program KWordQuiz. It's a flashcard program that can be used for many types of learning. The program was imported into kdenonbeta a few weeks ago. The plan is to move it to kdeedu shortly as a replacement for FlashKard. KWordQuiz has all the functionality of FlashKard, but with additional features. Files created with FlashKard can be used with KWordQuiz. KWordQuiz has more a powerful editor and provides flashcard, multiple choice and question & answer quizzes. KWordQuiz can also print lists and flashcards.

At this point I would like for as many as possible to test the program so that it gets ready for kdeedu. The nice people at kde-quality have already helped to get rid of some bugs.

More information and screenshots can be found at http://peterandlinda.com/kwordquiz.

Here's the plan:

1. Generic conduit factory that creates a ConduitAction whose exec() function does nothing more than start a QThread with another function to be called. I realize that this requires threading to work. However, I think that removing all the complicated QTimer stuff from conduits is worth it, and for this perl conduit case, absolutely necessary.
2. The thread function sets up a perl interpreter and calls it with the text of a perl script to run. Parameter is just the fd of the socket to the pilot.

I hope perl Palm modules can work from that. And yes, the idea is then to use the existing perl code for Plucker.