Notepad++ leaves SourceForge over export restrictions policy.
[via:Hacker News]
8 June 2010
20 May 2010
“Google, Mozilla and Opera announced a new open video format today called WebM. As part of the WebM project, Google is is freely licensing the VP8 compression technology. This new open video format will use a modified Matroska video container (.webm). WebM format support is available today in Firefox, Chromium, and Opera development builds. All videos that are 720p or larger, uploaded to YouTube after May 19th, will be be encoded in WebM.”
WebM uses the open Ogg Vorbis sound codec.
[via:Jani Uusitalo]
2 May 2010
7 April 2010
Qubes: a Xen/Linux based, open source local virtual machine based desktop OS
Read the introduction post on Rutkowska’s blog (which you might have stumbled over before if you remember Blue Pill).
The project sounds tremendously interesting as it might end up giving anyone access to strong desktop security/sandboxing of a type already available in an “enterpricey” form in products like Citrix XenDesktop.
[via:Mikko Hypponen]
31 January 2010
20 January 2010
6 December 2009
Etherpad to remain active until code is open sourced
Google bought this lovely web based multiplayer notepad the other day, with an initial plan to shut the whole thing down, but people complained. If you need to work on text or code with other people, try Etherpad, it really is Fully Qualified Awesome.
The AppJet framework, on which Etherpad is based, is probably something Google needs for allowing third parties to develop on the Wave platform. The framework is Java based, which in other words means that self-hosting a future open version might be a bit trickier than setting up WordPress on your typical ten dollar web host.
[via:Joonas Mäkinen]
25 October 2009
24 July 2009
8 March 2009
Free Chromium builds without Google Chrome’s EULA asshattery
Chromium is the free software base on which Google’s new browser is built.
[via:Tietokone]
28 February 2009
23 November 2008
Handbrake 0.9.3 released: Linux GUI available (Ubuntu 8.10 .deb packages included)
“HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.”
This is a must have tool for anyone who needs to convert video for playback on specific devices, for online publishing or backup purposes. Thanks to its multi-threaded nature, it works efficiently with modern multi-core CPUs. The new release is notable for Linux users, as earlier versions lacked a graphical user interface for this platform.
8 September 2008
Nmap 4.75 includes visual network topology mapper
This is something I’ve wanted for a long time: the world’s most famous networking/security software utility can now draw pretty pictures.
5 August 2008
Free Culture Showcase to be included on Ubuntu disc images
“For the next release of Ubuntu we want to [...] show off some free culture artists by putting their media on millions of Ubuntu systems around the world. [...] The deadline for submissions is 4th September 2008.”
[via:mummila]
3 August 2008
FireGPG – easy GNU Privacy Guard for Firefox (including Gmail)
“FireGPG is a Firefox extension [...] which brings an interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of text in any web page using GnuPG. FireGPG adds some features to the Gmail interface, to let you use GPG’s features directly in your webmail. More webmails will probably be supported in the future.”