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Posts Tagged ‘JAVA’

Xuggler

If you’ve ever fumbled around with ffmpeg and other tools, there is a superior alternative I was turned onto today by Paul Gregoire via his blog: Xuggler!

The Media Tools are particularly of use to folks like me – how suhweeet is this?

satellite browser

NASA hopes we enjoy J-Track 3-D.

Clicking on the thumbnail below or here or there will activate JTrack3D and it will appear in its own window and begin loading a database of over 900 satellites.

What you will see (presuming the system you’re on supports Java) is a plot in 3-dimensions showing the position of these satellites. Choose them all from the pull-down menu.

If your system isn’t currently supporting Java, skip the conniption, there are also some satellites that can be viewed without it:

thinfilms Picture 111 150x150 satellite browser