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eyeOS: A genuine Web OS
Posted: July 24th, 2007, 9:00am MDT by warthawg
LBL_TAG_TAGS: web 2.0 based application [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Portable applications can come in handy when you are on the move, but there are situations when using them is not an option. For instance, before you connect an external hard disk or a USB stick to a public computer, you have to ask permission. More importantly, even if you get permission, you can never be sure what kind of nasty viruses and malware you will be getting on your storage device. But why bother with portable applications at all when you can have your very own Web-based operating system bundled with a few essential applications? That's the promise of eyeOS -- an impressive and surprisingly useful open source Web-based OS. -
With new code base, Supergamer is fun again
Posted: July 18th, 2007, 11:00am MDT by warthawg
LBL_TAG_TAGS: linux distro distribution games [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Supergamer is a unique Linux distribution whose primary focus is on fun -- specifically, gaming. Supergamer VL, now based on VectorLinux, is all new, with additional games, new code base, and new look and feel. Let the games begin. Visit Linux.com to see all of our great content. -
Mind-blasting Japanese language learning tools
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 4:00pm MDT by warthawg
LBL_TAG_TAGS: japanese language [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Knowledge of a secondary language has long been a coveted skill, whether it be for academics, business, or travel, but learning another language can be a challenging task. While many Western languages at least offer a level of familiarity by sharing the Roman alphabet, Japanese and other Eastern languages offer no such comfort. Here are three applications that can help you overcome some learning roadblocks. -
Synfig experiments with 2-D animation
Posted: July 6th, 2007, 11:01am MDT by warthawg
LBL_TAG_TAGS: 2d animation multimedia [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Synfig is a 2-D animation program that uses vector graphics. Although it has only just released version 0.61.06-1, it is already approaching early maturity, with enough tools and innovations that professionals might seriously consider using it. The only real question about its future is the minor one of whether the developers can learn the difference between practical and merely arbitrary changes in standard interfaces and tools. -
New AntiX distro makes older hardware usable
Posted: June 25th, 2007, 1:00am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: small linux distro distribution [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
I've been a fan of SimplyMEPIS for years. The distribution was one of the early pioneers in the field of user-friendly Linux development, and to this day offers a system that usually "just works." Earlier this month the MEPIS site announced a community variation for older computers based on SimplyMEPIS. AntiX is an installable live CD that features a modern kernel, recent X server, and lighter applications for use on computers with as little as 64MB RAM. I tried it, and liked what I found. -
How to create poster presentations with Scribus
Posted: June 20th, 2007, 5:01am MDT
LBL_TAG_TAGS: free OpenSource presentation [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Poster presentations are a common way of presenting results, proposing strategies, and explaining concepts and methods. You can create nifty poster presentations with Scribus, the free desktop publishing tool.
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Visuwords: WordNet goes graphical
Posted: June 19th, 2007, 4:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: words English dictionary visuwords language [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
WordNet is one of the best English language references available, but its command-line and rather primitive graphical interfaces don't really do it justice. WordNet would greatly benefit from a graphical front-end similar to Visual Thesaurus that allows you to view and explore the connections between different words. Fortunately, there is a tool that does exactly that. -
Baylor neuroimaging lab has open source on the brain
Posted: June 14th, 2007, 4:01pm MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: science open source [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
The Baylor College Human Neuroimaging Lab (HNL) uses Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to record and research brain activity. The fMRI scans human brains at work, detecting areas of greater blood flow that indicate which part of the brain is active as subjects perform a variety of activities. The data flows from the scanners to a high-performance 32-node CentOS cluster to be analyzed and returned to researchers in statistical form. HNL Systems Administrator Justin King is a big fan of open source software and frequently writes his own applications when he can't find what he needs in the community. King also takes advantage of commercial open source projects. -
VMware Workstation 6 virtually trounces the competition
Posted: June 12th, 2007, 10:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: vmware virtualization [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Newly released VMware Workstation 6 has lots of new features and improvements to ease collaboration between the host and guest operating systems. Add to that improved support for USB devices and rock solid performance and VMware Workstation 6 easily outshines competition and justifies its $189 price tag. -
Upload your photos in an instant with Kflickr
Posted: June 5th, 2007, 4:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: linux kflickr flickr web based [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Uploading pictures to Flickr via its Web-based interface is a hassle, particularly if you have dozens of shots to upload. Linux users have a better choice, though, in the form of Kflickr, a simple application for uploading shots to Flickr that will have your family photos online in no time. -
Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG
Posted: June 4th, 2007, 10:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: gmail encryption email [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Gmail may be an excellent Web-based email application, but there is no easy way to use it with privacy tools like GnuPG. The FireGPG extension for Firefox is designed to solve this problem. It integrates nicely into Gmail's interface and allows you to sign and encrypt not only email messages but also text snippets from any Web page. -
Adobe relicenses XMP toolkit as open source
Posted: May 29th, 2007, 1:01pm MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: xml xmp adobe development [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Adobe has released a new version of its Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) toolkit, and for the first time it is under an open source license that allows the code to be incorporated into free software. XMP is Adobe's XML-based specification for metadata geared toward digital images and multimedia. -
Open Web Analytics for WordPress
Posted: May 29th, 2007, 10:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: open web Analytics wordpress [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
WordPress is a full-featured "personal publishing" platform, but it offers little in the way of traffic analysis. If you'd like to dig into your traffic patterns and have a better idea who's visiting your site and what they're coming to see, take a look at the Open Web Analytics (OWA) plugin for WordPress. It's easy to use, and provides a wealth of information about your site traffic. -
Firefox extension lets you remove elements from Web pages
Posted: May 28th, 2007, 4:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: firefox extension remove [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Are you irritated by huge graphical ads smack in the middle of an article? Or maybe you don't want to waste bandwidth viewing the dozens of images in a review, or user icons in forum boards? You can remove them for good with a single click by using Firefox's RIP extension, which zaps anything out of a Web page, permanently. -
Unveiling the Art of Illusion
Posted: May 24th, 2007, 4:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: art of illusion 3d [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Blender gets the lion's share of press among free 3-D modeling applications, but it is not the only player in the field. Art of Illusion (AOI) is a mature, GPL-licensed 3-D modeler with robust editing, animation, and rendering features, and it's a lot easier to use than Blender. If you haven't tried it, it's time you took a look at this recent SourceForge.net Product of the Month. -
Firefox extension takes the pane out of windows
Posted: May 21st, 2007, 4:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: firefox extensions [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Ever wished you could display more than one site in Firefox at a time? I'm not talking about tabbed browsing, I'm talking about seeing two sites next to one another without having to juggle two browser windows. Firefox doesn't do this natively, but with the Split Browser extension, you can juggle two or more sites in one browser window. -
Tiny Tiny RSS: A very very useful RSS reader
Posted: May 15th, 2007, 1:01pm MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: rss web based reader feed [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS) is an excellent little Web-based RSS aggregator that, despite its tiny size, sports some clever features, including an AJAXified interface, a multiuser mode, tags, content filtering, and a lightweight interface for use with mobile devices. -
Art meets open source at Libre Graphics Meeting
Posted: May 15th, 2007, 10:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: open source art graphics [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Unlike a typical Linux get-together, at the Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), half of the attendees are developers and the other half are artists. The conference, which was held earlier this month at the Polytechnique Montréal, featured speakers from as far as Australia and Europe. In three rooms, speakers presented techniques for everything from generating photorealistic vector drawings to producing full movies to magazine production. -
Gaim, er, Pidgin, finally hits 2.0
Posted: May 11th, 2007, 1:01pm MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: gaim pidgin [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
It's the release that Gaim users have been waiting for since December 2005. After seven beta releases, several interface revamps, and a name change, Pidgin 2.0 is finally available in the wild. It's an improvement over the Gaim 1.5 series, but it's disappointing that after all that time, voice support for instant messaging networks that support that feature is still absent. -
Turn your Linux box into a PDF-making machine
Posted: May 8th, 2007, 4:01am MDT by jzb
LBL_TAG_TAGS: linux pdf [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Remember the paperless office? By now we were supposed to be handling all of our documents digitally, and saving trees by using computers to handle everything electronically. If you'd like to make backup copies of ephemeral content without printing it out, turn your Linux box into a PDF generation device for your entire network. -
Mugshot: Social networking open source style
Posted: May 4th, 2007, 4:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: open source linux social networking [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Now that we have open source beer, open source cars, and open source photography, a social networking service run by Red Hat and based around open source software comes as no surprise. The name of the project is Mugshot, and the official definition describes it as "an open project to create live social experiences around entertainment." That may sound vague, but it's actually a useful service, and there are quite a few things you can do with it. -
Digipup: A Linux live CD for amateur radio
Posted: May 3rd, 2007, 1:01pm MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: linux live cd ham radio [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Puppy Linux is a lightweight live Linux distribution that you can boot and run from a CD, USB stick, or DVD. One of its features is the ability to create specialized "pups" -- new versions of Puppy Linux geared toward a specific purpose. Digipup is one such example, with a focus on amateur radio. I spun it up, and found Digipup to be a great way to check out amateur radio utilities for Linux. -
Make Gmail better
Posted: April 30th, 2007, 10:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: gmail [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Many people have embraced Google's Gmail service due to its slick interface and ample storage -- but like any application, Gmail leaves a few things to be desired. To trick Gmail out to your specifications, take a look at Lifehacker's Better Gmail, a Firefox extension that brings all sorts of extra goodness to Gmail. -
OLPC: Fading or stronger than ever?
Posted: April 28th, 2007, 11:51am MDT by warthawg
LBL_TAG_TAGS: olpc [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
Recent events -- $3 Windows for the developing world, competition from Intel, and a $175.00 pricetag for OLPC's $100.00 laptop -- have some reporters and analysts suggesting the project may be in trouble. But are those dire forecasts credible or are they simply wishful thinking by the Wintel faithful? -
Pawfaliki: A one-file wiki
Posted: April 18th, 2007, 4:01am MDT by StoneLion
LBL_TAG_TAGS: wiki linux [LBL_TAG_EDIT]
While there are many contenders for the title of simplest wiki or easiest to use, Pawfaliki beats them all for two reasons: the entire wiki consists of just one PHP file, and it can be configured by anyone with little or no experience with PHP. This makes Pawfaliki a perfect tool for users who want to set up a personal wiki with minimum fuss, or small workgroups looking for a quick and easy way to share knowledge and collaborate.