Simple test of video streaming connection.

Just put this URL into your browser address bar.

https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport

Will see how your connection working by video streaming quality results and providers.
Try more of tutorials, tips and tricks, programming features at free-tutorials.org.

News: The new Google Spaces from google.

Google Space it's a way for groups to quickly share text, images, videos or links.
This news was announced yesterday by Google and is available as a web service and in form of native applications for Android and iOS.
If you want to access Spaces then this is not protected.
The only security that prevents uninvited users from accessing a Space is a random invite string.
The customization options let you change the header graphic, change colors, and add a name to space, but that is about it.
Google Spaces is part Google Plus and part Wave and will come with new features.

Fedora 24 alpha - Twine software.

Today I tested teh Twine open-source tool with Fedora 24 alpha. I used virtual box software the last version.
I donwload the Twine from here - the linux version. I start the application and working well.

About the Twine - you can read from official website:
You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready. Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes. Twine was originally created by Chris Klimas in 2009 and is now maintained by a whole bunch of people at several different repositories.

 

New version of Virtual Box software.

The date of this release was: 2016-04-28.
This software has been released like a maintenance release.
This software come with this changes.

News: About Fedora 24 Alpha.

I used Fedora 24 Alpha because is a great operating system.
First I will share some links with more info about Fedora 24 Alpha.

If you want to read about the release schedule for Fedora 24, then take a look at Fedora 24 - Releases Schedule.
What is Alpha a release?
A release contains all the features of Fedora editions in a form that anyone can help test.
Where you can get it?
You can read and download this release from here.
...now about testing the new Fedora 24.
You can make one Live DVD /CD or just use one virtual machine software like Virtual Box.
The Virtual Box software from Oracle it is an x86 virtualization software not just for Linux distro but also for any operating system. You find many tutorials about how to do that.

So, I install the new Fedora 24 Alpha and I test it. 
First, the team makes a great job with this features:
- not many packages ;
- the speed of my VirtualBox is good with virtual Hyper-V, enabled 3D - Acceleration and 64 Mb on video was under 1 min to see the first screen and almost 2 min to start the GUI install on a hard disk with my old Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU 2117U has 1.80GHz;
- the design starts with a beautiful wallpaper; 
- the installation GUI is simple;
- the size on disk to make the first update I used is 15Gb - is too much for me;
- the initial size of the installation comes with ~6Gb;
- the last Virtual Box version 5.0.18 r106667 come with full network settings so you can use the internet to update Fedora packages and use the browser.
I don't use this distro with Live DVD or install on my HDD but you can do that...
I want to make this article more complex but is enough for now ...

Regards. 

 

Tested the Libre Office software.

Today I tested Libre Office suite. The last version is 5.1.2.2 and has many features.
I like to used because I can export my work under Microsoft Office and also to open document.
You can download it from libreoffice official page.
This software can be used with many ope systems, like:

• Linux x64 (deb)
• Linux x64 (rpm)
• Linux x86 (deb)
• Linux x86 (rpm)
• Mac OS X x86_64 (10.8 or newer required)
• Windows
• Windows x86_64 (Vista or newer required) 

You have LibreOffice come with Impress, Calc , Writer, Math and Draw to deal with any type of issue.  I don't like for example the way to rename the macro. You need to go to : Tools -Macros -Organize Macros -LibreOffice Basic.. the Organizer button and finally double click to the name of the macros , rename and close. I think this come from permisions of the macros.
Also You can deal with macros what do you want. For example in this example I delete some fields from one document - one matrix make from A3 to B10.

  Dim myDoc As Object
  Dim mySheet As Object
  Dim myCell As Object
  Dim myRange As Object
  Dim myFlags As Long
 
  myDoc = ThisComponent
  mySheet = myDoc.Sheets(0) ' Refers to Sheet1 as in 0, 1, 2 etc
  myRange = mySheet.getCellRangeByName("A3:B10")
 
  myFlags = com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.VALUE + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.DATETIME + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.STRING + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.ANNOTATION + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.FORMULA + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.HARDATTR + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.STYLES + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.OBJECTS + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.EDITATTR
 
  myRange.clearContents(myFlags)

This is a simple type of macro using LibreOffice Basic language. You can also use Python , BeanShell, JavaScript.
So if you like this software and you want to survive this software, you can make a donation of at least 5 USD.

LibreOffice is Free Software and is made available free of charge. Your donation, which is purely optional, supports our worldwide community.If you like the software, please consider a donation.

Today ...

I wrote about one game to another blog here.
My concern for today is about that blogspot and how to improve it.
Maybe will need to make some changes because I have just one subscriber :) .
I will try to make more good  for subscribers or maybe to promote over internet.
Also I don't waht to delete the blogspot because has some great posts.

If you have some ideas to improve that blog just comment bellow.
Thank you. Regards.

Simple animated clock with SVG file.

Today I make a simple clock using animated svg file. I make also one tutorial to show you how is working. Just take a look at Make clock with animated SVG file.

Blender 3D new tutorial - hologram effect.

I make today a new tutorial about Blender 3D version 2.77a - the last version of Blender software. Is a simple tutorial with a cube and one plane but with some nodes and Cycles render engine. The result is a beautiful result of hologram effect. So you can take a look here.

News: The skin display.

I don't like to post about hardware, but this news is great. I hope will see soon into the market.
The news comes from the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering developed a mechanical flexible and stretchable "e-skin" film through the use of an organic light-emitting diode display.
The total thickness of the devices, including the substrate and encapsulation layer, is 3 microns, or three-thousandths of a millimeter.
You can read the full article.

Deal with highmaps.js - javascript library.

Another tutorial I make today about highmaps.js.
This simple example just allow us to understanding how this library working.
The tutorial can be found here.
This is result of the html5 files:

Google celebrate Safer Internet Day 2016 with one great gift.

All you have to do is check your secure account.
After that will see this message: To help celebrate Safer Internet Day 2016, we added 2 GB of free Drive storage to your Google account because you completed the Security Checkup.

News: Copy and CudaDrive will be discontinued.

Today I got one questionable mail survey about cloud services and I think about the cloud and prices.
Now I saw one news about Copy and CudaDrive after my Dropbox take some space.
The news it's come from Copy and CudaDrive and will be closed.
This is the message from the official website: copy.

Copy and CudaDrive services will be discontinued. We are announcing today that the Copy and CudaDrive services will be discontinued on May 1, 2016. Copy and CudaDrive have provided easy-to-use cloud file services and sharing functionality to millions of users the past 4+ years. However, as our business focus has shifted, we had to make the difficult decision to discontinue the Copy and CudaDrive services and allocate those resources elsewhere. For more information on this decision, please view the blog post from Rod Mathews our VP & GM, Storage Business.