technology:screen capture

Zuckerberg, hummus and Tel Aviv - Israel National News
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined “Secret Tel Aviv,” an Israeli Facebook group with over 220,000 members.

The group, according to a report in Globes, publishes many posts in Hebrew and English with diverse content, such as housing searches, various recommendations, tips for new immigrants, discussions, and humorous posts about the city and its residents. The group is very active and operates a website.

Zuckerberg joined Secret Tel Aviv over the weekend, the report said. Some of the group’s members noticed this on Monday and began publishing posts about it.

“People, you should know that now he’s one of us,” one user wrote with a screen capture showing that Zuckerberg was a group member. The post has received over 1,100 likes and drawn many responses. Another user tagged him, writing humorously, “I hope the new member in the group likes the hummus in the city.”

Peek Gif Screen Recorder Drops Support for Snaps
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/peek-snap-app-discontinued

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Peek is discontinuing support for its Snap app. The developer behind the popular animated gif screen capture tool cites complex set-up and a lack of cross-distro support. This post, Peek Gif Screen Recorder Drops Support for Snaps, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Peek Gif Recorder Gets Updated, Now Available from a PPA
▻http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/peek-animated-gif-screen-capture-linux-update

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Peek, the nifty animated gif screen capture app for Linux desktops, has been updated. Peek 0.9 reduces the size of temporary files, adds a resolution downsampling option (to help the app use fewer resources when rendering your gif), and introduces fallback support for avconf should ffmpeg be unavailable. For ultimate control the minimum frame rate can now be set […] This post, Peek Gif Recorder Gets Updated, Now Available from a PPA, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

What Facebook, Blue Jeans, and Metal Signs Taught Us About Tornado Science - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/what-facebook-blue-jeans-and-metal-signs-taught-us-about-tornado-science

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Screen capture of Patty Bullion’s “Pictures and Documents found after the April 27, 2011 Tornadoes” Facebook page. On April 27, 2011 a monstrous EF5 tornado traveled 132 miles across northern Alabama and into southern Tennessee, missing one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plants by less than two miles, and also skirting the grounds of an Alabama state prison and obliterating the Alabama towns of Hackleburg and Phil Campbell. In Hackleburg, the tornado destroyed 75 percent of the structures, killed 18 people and crumpled a Wrangler blue jeans plant. The jeans were syphoned up into the air, and somewhere in the anvil of the thunderstorm that had spawned the twister they joined high school letter jackets, family photographs, homemade quilts, metal signs, and all manner of documents. In (...)

Saudi girls fight on #Youtube front
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/20065

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A screen capture of the first Youtube episode of BanaTube. A screen capture of the first Youtube episode of BanaTube.

YouTube shows represent a healthy trend in #Saudi_Arabia. Though content creators are often harassed, their innovative ideas are finding their way to the famous video-sharing website.

Mariam Abdullah

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