Wednesday, March 31, 2010

HowStuffWorks Videos "Junkyard Wars Videos"

This one is good!:)
Junkyard Wars: Climbing Cars (24:11)

I watched the first one on this one. They build drag cars. It was great!:) The next one is off road cars. Looks good too. I'll watch it later.. Junkyard Wars: Cool Cars (55:59)

HowStuffWorks Videos "Junkyard Wars Videos"
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/science/junkyard-wars-videos-playlist.htm#video-13378

Don

Take Advantage of New Simplified Cisco Wireless Routers - PCWorld Business Center

Take Advantage of New Simplified Cisco Wireless Routers

By Tony Bradley

Cisco today unveiled two new wireless router lines aimed at simplifying
the process of configuring a wireless network for home, or small and
medium office environments. The new wireless routers attempt to provide
PC users with a wireless experience mirroring Apple's Airport devices.

Cisco is an enterprise-grade company, with enterprise-grade equipment,
and its used to working with enterprise partners. Its consumer offerings
have left a little to be desired. After acquiring Pure Digital
Technologies, makers of the popular Flip digital video cameras, Cisco
has learned some new tricks for designing simplified, dummy-proof,
almost automatic configuration--and it has applied those lessons to its
consumer wireless routers.

The Valet series of devices are aimed primarily at home users, but Cisco
also developed the Linksys E-series wireless routers--combining the
simplicity of the Valet series with some additional configuration
options for more tech savvy customers. The Linksys E-series wireless
routers are available as of today from standard retail outlets...

The Cisco press release says "The new, streamlined product lineup sets a
new precedent for simplicity, power, and performance and makes it easy
for consumers to find the right technology to fit their needs."

Here is a breakdown of the features and suggested price for each of the
four Linksys E-series wireless routers from the Cisco press release:

Read more... Their not cheap, but have some good features, like built in
USB for Hard Drive accessible over the Internet...
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/193056/take_advantage_of_new_simplified_cisco_wireless_routers.html

Don

How to Get Rid of Fleas Naturally - wikiHow

How to Get Rid of Fleas Naturally - wikiHow
Ever heard of any of these?

4
Use yeast as a weapon. Supposedly, fleas don't like the taste of yeast. Although this has not been proven, many people swear by it. Purchase some brewer's or nutritional yeast and rub it onto your pet's skin. You can also sprinkle a small amount onto their wet food and mix it in.
- Feeding your pet garlic is thought to have the same effect, but it can be irritating or even toxic to your pet, so use yeast instead.
5
Make a citrus spray. Citrus oils allegedly repel fleas, but they may also repel your pets, and irritate them if they ingest them, so use this solution with care. Slice a lemon thinly, add to a pint of water and heat to the boiling point. Let it sit overnight and in the morning, spray it onto areas where you suspect fleas hang out (beware of staining) and rub it over your cat's fur. Don't soak but dampen the fur. Do this once a month to combat fleas. Do not use a lot at first, and keep an eye out for signs of digestive discomfort in your pet.

Read more...
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Fleas-Naturally

Don

Monday, March 29, 2010

YouTube - Hands Up To The Sky-JuanLorenZerimar/BigLoveZone

Hands Up To The Sky-JuanLorenZerimar/BigLoveZone
Neat Music Video with a message...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N9cwTkTNu4&feature=email

Don

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Lucid Dreams and Death By Techno / Marcel Gagné: Orbiting Planet *buntu / Blogs / Online / Home - Ubuntu User

Lucid Dreams and Death By Techno

26/03/2010 7:02 pm

Marcel Gagné

Hello, everyone. My name is Marcel and I'm a technology addict.

I stand before you today, naked (figuratively speaking, of course), laying my deepest, darkest, secrets out for all to see. You see, I love technology. All kinds of technology. Computers. Televisions. Cars. Smart phones. Computer programs. Airplanes. Linux distributions. Keychains with tiny screens to display family photos. Bluetooth headsets. Satellites. Video games. Coffee makers. Spaceships. Remote controlled toy helicopters. High speed networks. Model rockets. Timepieces. Microwave ovens.You get the idea. I've always felt that the problem isn't too much technology, but too little and insufficiently advanced technology. I'm also a believer that really, really great tech is what's going to save us and propel us to the next stage of human evolution. I love looking at new technology. Touching new technology.

Trying out new technology. I am forced to admit that I may have a problem.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

YouTube - Make a Simple Laser Communicator

How Cool is this?!:)

YouTube - Make a Simple Laser Communicator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKRPfa66_po&feature=rec-lis-watch-cur_emp-real_rev-rn

Don

YouTube - DIY Wind Turbine Blade DC 180 Volt Electric Generator HAWT Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine

YouTube - DIY Wind Turbine Blade DC 180 Volt Electric Generator HAWT
Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl5RVoZDmjI&feature=rec-lis-watch-cur_emp-real_rev-rn
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl5RVoZDmjI&feature=rec-lis-watch-cur_emp-real_rev-rn>

Don

Friday, March 26, 2010

Simple Linux Backup Software

Simple Linux Backup software simplifies the task of backing up a Linux desktop system. The software was originally written to accompany my article on backing up a Linux desktop system. It includes two applications:

The Simple Backup Configuration Program (SBCP). This wizard asks you a few simple questions about what to back up, where to back it up, etc. It records these answers in some configuration files and sets up automatic backups for you.
The backup script, bkup. This shell script actually performs the backups based on the options you set in SBCP. It has no user interface – it is meant to be run automatically by the Linux scheduler, cron, or manually from a command line.

You might be wondering, “What’s a script?” It’s just a small program – it just happens to be constructed from (in this case) Bash shell commands.

--
Don's e-mail sig DonSongs links

God Bless,

Don

Check out my Web Pages and Blog’s too...

Don's Music and Poems at DonSongs.com

DonSongs! Download Both Albums in MP3's Free! Also, there's Pages of my Songs, Poems and Pic’s of me and friends:>) www.DonSongs.com

DonSongs New Site With Music Players for Both Albums and New Page Design...

Download The Whole Living Beings - Climate Control Album Free!:) We have our New Album Out Now! With me, Don Bishop doing Vocals and Lyrics and Marty Splawn Playing all the Music! And You can Download the whole Album Free!

http://bishopco.com/LivingBeings/LivingBeings-ClimateControl-mp3.html

And here’s an alternative Living Beings download site that also has smaller 64Kbps M3U versions for Dialup connections and it has Streams of the complete album too if you just want to listen online without saving the MP3’s. http://www.archive.org/details/DonBishopLivingBeingsClimateControl

Living Beings Blog has some MP3 Song clips from our Living Beings - Climate Control album. Also, I put up some of my favorite Pic’s. http://livingbeings.blogspirit.com/

And here’s an alternative DonSongs download site that also has smaller 64Kbps M3U versions for Dialup connections and it has Streams of the complete album too if you just want to listen online without saving the MP3’s. http://www.archive.org/details/DonBishopDonSongs002

CMU - Christian Music Underground

CMU was started by Don Bishop to share the music of myself and of course the rest of you guys who are among the non commercial artists out there who work hard at their music and want to Glorify, Praise and Share the Love of our Lord Jesus.

http://christianrocker.com/index.php?mode=player&type=radio&id=79

DonSongs Blog... This is a Collection of Songs written & Sung by Don Bishop from 01-1991 to 03-2002.http://donsongs.blogspirit.com/

I need help starting a ministry for Kids. Do you love Kids and Teenagers? If you feel a calling on your life to help the least of these grow up and learn to live and love and believe in Jesus, then please check out our vision.

Psalms 68 Ministries http://www.Psalms68.com

My Web Site’s Business Page, the Entry Point for all the rest. My New Site is at http://bishopco.com/mambo/ and my old faithful is at http://www.BishopCo.com

Classified Ads, Place Your’s for Free Here! Try out my free Classified Ads Site.

Don's Deals Free Classifieds http://epage.com/js/csp/c44364/b44364/r571658/?csp=44364

rdiff-backup: Main

rdiff-backup

A remote incremental backup of all your files could be as easy as
"rdiff-backup / host.net::/target-dir"[disclaimer]

What is it?

rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, modification times, extended attributes, acls, and resource forks. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults.

Read more...
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/index.html

--
Don's e-mail sig DonSongs links

God Bless,

Don

Check out my Web Pages and Blog’s too...

Don's Music and Poems at DonSongs.com

DonSongs! Download Both Albums in MP3's Free! Also, there's Pages of my Songs, Poems and Pic’s of me and friends:>) www.DonSongs.com

DonSongs New Site With Music Players for Both Albums and New Page Design...

http://bishopco.com/LivingBeings/LivingBeings-ClimateControl-mp3.html

Living Beings Blog has some MP3 Song clips from our Living Beings - Climate Control album. Also, I put up some of my favorite Pic’s. http://livingbeings.blogspirit.com/

DonSongs Blog... This is a Collection of Songs written & Sung by Don Bishop from 01-1991 to 03-2002.http://donsongs.blogspirit.com/

Psalms 68 Ministries http://www.Psalms68.com

My Web Site’s Business Page, the Entry Point for all the rest. My New Site is at http://bishopco.com/mambo/ and my old faithful is at http://www.BishopCo.com

Classified Ads, Place Your’s for Free Here! Try out my free Classified Ads Site.

Don's Deals Free Classifieds http://epage.com/js/csp/c44364/b44364/r571658/?csp=44364

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

YouTube - RepMicheleBachmann's Channel - The IRS is Now in the Health Care Business

Now they have complete control of our lives and deaths!!!:O
Oh! And TAXES...

The IRS is Now in the Health Care Business

http://www.youtube.com/user/RepMicheleBachmann#p/a/u/0/wQ-EsawOIQ4

Don

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Mumble | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

Mumble 1.1

Mumble is voice chat software that can be used by any type of group but is tailored for gamers who enjoy chatting while gaming. It has an ingame overlay for DirectX9 and OpenGL based games and shows clearly who is speaking even when using full screen applications. This is a feature that most chatting software lacks and is what gamers have been asking for.

Gamers have had concerns about delays with other chat software. This presents a major problem when a gamer is asking advice and needs a quick response. Mumble has a much shorter delay and better implementation of Speex than most other software. In fact, it is based on the new Speex codec that has significantly lower memory needs and much better sound quality. Since it doesn't demand so much memory, gaming is smoother and the chatting process doesn't interfere with the game play.

Mumble comes with plug-in support to positional audio in games and also has a plug-in for Battlefield 2, one of the most recently popular games. The installer has Mumble as the client and the server Murmur. Murmer is the server that insures secure communication and full extensibility. It also has voice preprocessing and low latency that removes noise and improves voice clarity. The Murmur server delivers quality that is superior to many chat applications currently in use.

Mumble supports a number of popular game title including Battlefield 2, Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty 2 and 4, and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

Go there...
http://www.osalt.com/mumble

Don

LMMS | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

LMMS 0.4.5

Linux Multimedia Studio (LMMS) is a free DAW (digital audio workstation) created for Linux & Windows. Although it has a rather steep learning curve, there are many tutorials and it includes several sample songs that you can learn from. Users learn the functions pretty quickly once they go through a few of the examples.

LMMS allows the user to create and produce music by synthesizing sounds, arranging samples and playing on a MIDI keyboard. Features include trackers, sequencers, synthesizers and a beat/bassline editor. It also has a song editor to help organize materials into larger forms and a piano-roll window to aid in writing MIDI parts.

This DAW also lets you add effects to pre-existing audio so that you can record something and import it as a sample. You can add filters, distortion or any other effects you like and then make the whole file one track. By creating samples in the same composition program you can save a lot of time that you would normally waste by copying it between multiple programs.

The piano roll previously mentioned allows easy editing by clicking on the right pitch at the right time and clicking to insert the note. The note value can easily be changed by resizing it with the mouse.

One drawback of LMMS is that it has no "undo" function anywhere in the program. That can be quite frustrating but as you learn the program better you probably won't miss it.

LMMS come equipped with four different synthesizers. There is one that allows manipulation of samples by adding filters and a BitInvader plugin that is a wavetable synthesizer, allowing you to create a waveform for your sound. There is a guitar synthesizer and one with three oscillators. Most of LMMS's controls are understandable but you can get guidance by right clicking and selecting the "help" option.

Go there...
http://www.osalt.com/lmms

Don

FreeMind | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

FreeMind 0.8.0

FreeMind is a great open source for all steps of project management. From simple note taking at project meetings - over brainstorming for new projects and keeping track of projects and time recording. But also the reseach project FreeMind helps you keep track of all items in the structured, organized and dynamic way. Internet bookmarks can also be stored in FreeMind and nodes can be created as link so that one click brings you to you favorite site.
Structuring your information is easy - nodes can be move around using drag'n drop and simple keyboard shortcuts. Finally all mind maps can be exported to HTML to allow other people easy access to your information - the exported HTML file even supports folding of nodes.

Go there...
http://www.osalt.com/freemind

Don

XMind | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

XMind 3

Mind mapping is the new approach to preparing big projects or organizing functions among a group or just helping you get things done in a timely manner. XMind is an open source program that helps generate ideas, visualize concepts and classify ideas. You can use your maps privately or share them online and get input from your colleagues or co-workers.

XMind is easy to use and it has a tabbed interface that lets you open several maps at a time. A sidebar tells you all the details about the map that you select. There are several useful templates or you can create your own concept map. XMind supports notes, images, hyperlinks and files so you can express your concepts clearly and completely. Merely double click to edit topics or create them anywhere on your map. You can organize your topics with moving markers, drag and drop or by adding attachments. Need to research a topic? You can Google it without leaving your work window and even drag images into your map.

XMind is compatible with MindManager and FreeMind, too, so you aren't limited in your communications. You can even use it to make a presentation, filtering all the information with markers and labels. Your audience will be able to focus on a central point or be able to understand and visualize an entire idea. You can even use the audio notes to record voices as separate attachments. XMind has the ability to separate smaller aspects as multi-maps and then merge into a single map when needed. All maps can be exported to many formats including Word, PPT and PDF/RTF. In short, XMind is an easy to use tool with a lot of extras to help you share ideas and brainstorm in the most efficient way possible.

Go there...
http://www.osalt.com/xmind

Drupal | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

Drupal 6.2

About

Website
Drupal

Available for
windows* mac
linux** unix
java

Tags
content-management-system cms

Download

Drupal is an open source software package for individuals or communities of users that need to publish, organize and manage a website's content also know as a content management system (CMS). Individual users as well as organizations can use it on personal or business web sites and blogs, discussion and e-commerce sites. Just download and begin using it with the easy web installer. Dozens of free add-on modules have features like forums, blogs, peer to peer networking, newsletters, picture galleries, file uploads and downloads and many more. Drupal even works for multi-user blogs.

Organizations that need content management will like Drupal's effective security, support infrastructure, scalability, customizable permissions and user roles. Images and other media are supported as are comments. Organizers can easily share ideas, use the preconfigured tools for community management and the self-organizing features.

Small business owners can set up their own site, customize its style and layout and change it as their business grows. Drupal has e-commerce support for shopping carts and paid-content subscriptions. The permissions don't require that each person be authorized; permissions can be assigned to roles which in turn can be assigned to a group, saving time and simplifying collaboration.

Website designers and builders enjoy the ease of creating their own themes and providing client support. Access to designer/developer communities is a real asset. Programmers like the modular system that can be customized and extended, access to developer communities, system and architecture documentation and coding standards.

Drupal has many other unique features, such as a collaborative "book" that others can contribute to. URLs are both user and search engine friendly and online help is available to you on your own site. All content is fully indexed for the built-in search module.

See more...
http://www.osalt.com/drupal

Don

Typo3 | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

Typo3 4.2

About

Website
Typo3

Available for
windows* mac
linux** unix
java

Tags
cms website internet intranet extranet content-management-system

Download

Typo3, a content management system (CMS), is feature rich and yet is one of the easiest systems to learn. With new functions being created by more than 300 registered developers on a frequent basis, Typo3 gives you over eight hundred available extensions with new ones being constantly developed. When choosing a CMS, all to often you're forced to choose between functionality and ease of use but Typo3 gives you both.

Administrators will like the wizard that allows them to create a site with one of several HTML templates. Typo3 uses Typoscript, a scripting that offers many tools to access data easily and quickly. It also has a tool to make your own extensions called Extension Kickstarter. While it may take awhile to learn all the aspects and uses of Typo3, making a basic site is simple and there are many tutorials available to help. This CMS allows restricting and limiting usage to certain users and groups very easy and is rich in security features.

Content editors can learn to use Typo3 in as little as 30 minutes! It can run on Windows, Linux or Mac and is compatible with most browsers. Text editing is done using familiar Office icons; Typo3 features a rich text editor and WYSIWYG editors as well as the ability to add or remove buttons and styles. There is a spell checker built in and help icons beside most of the functions. Typo3 also displays file management functions in a directory-tree format so that content editors can locate pages and files easily and quickly. The intuitive user interface saves time and aggravation as well.

Typo3 rivals most commercial systems in quality and ease of use. With so many CMSs available, it can be difficult to choose among them but Typo3 will quickly convince you that you've made the right choice.

See more...
http://www.osalt.com/typo3

Don

Monday, March 22, 2010

Norton Ghost | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

Open source Norton Ghost alternatives

Norton Ghost is almost the ultimate solution when it comes to backing up your data. It backs up everything on your harddisks including operating system. Even if you have a complete harddisk failure - your entire system can be brought to life on a new harddisk. Norton Ghost even supports incremental backup, so that you don't have to make a complete backup of you system each time. Norton Ghost backups to external hardisks attached to you USB or Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports - or burns your backups to CDs or DVDs. It also allows you to backup to network shares on either a normal file server or Network Attached Storage (NAS) or even a FTP server.

Open source Norton Ghost alternatives

Partition Image 0.6.7
Available for: windows mac linux unix java
Partition Image is an open source disk cloner. It will create a complete image of the partitions you wish to backup that can be spilt into multiple files for storing on removable media - or copied... Read more

Clonezilla
Available for: windows mac linux unix java
Clonezilla is an open source solution to computer backup, restoration and "ghosting". It is based on partition imaging and allows you to backup and recover your system should it be taken out by a... Read more

Ghost for Unix (G4U) 2.3
Available for: windows mac linux unix java
G4U is an operating systems independent application that can be used for disk cloning. It boots either of disks or LiveCD - and then allows you to copy all of the content from a harddisk to a remote... Read more

Go there...
http://www.osalt.com/ghost#alts

Don

Google stops censoring in China, creates "China dashboard"

by Erez Zukerman (RSS feed) Mar 22nd 2010 at 4:32PM

That's it; the deed is done -- Google stopped censoring results for China. As of this morning, users trying to access google.cn are redirected to google.com.hk, where Google provides uncensored search results.

They use geolocation to figure out when a connection is from the mainland, and provide results in simplified Chinese. Users connecting from Hong Kong will keep getting results in traditional Chinese.

Google will still maintain R&D and Sales presence in China, but the size of the sales team will "be partially dependent on the ability of mainland Chinese users to access Google.com.hk".

They have also created a new dashboard page, where the whole world (or human rights activists) can see at a glance which Google services are being blocked by China at any given day. Gutsy indeed.

I don't know about you guys, but this move wins Google major points in my mind. I am all for free speech, and I think it's rare for a company to put its money where its mouth is. Kudos.

Go there...
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/03/22/google-stops-censoring-in-china-creates-china-dashboard/

Don

2010: Semiconductors In Audio

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by Frank Wells.

After the invention of the transistor in 1947, semiconductors began rapidly supplanting the electron tube for all but the most specialized uses (yes, like in some of your favorite analog gear). Today’s high-powered computing ICs incorporate transistor counts besting a million per square millimeter. Individual transistors and their integrated circuit brethren form the building blocks of most of today’s audio devices, be they analog or digital, simple amplifier stages or processing blocks.

Each year, Pro Sound News queries audio design engineers about their semiconductor usage. This year’s respondents are B.J. Buchalter, VP R&D at Metric Halo; David Eltzroth, President and CEO of ROX Electronics; Tony Gambacurta, Sr. Engineer at Whirlwind Music Distributors; Director of Product Strategy for Focusrite, Rob Jenkins; Patrick Quilter, Senior Audio Designer at QSC Audio Products; David Thibodeau, VP at Daking Audio; and Tonelux Designs President, Paul Wolff.

An abridged version of their replies ran in the March, 2010 issue of Pro Sound News; the unabridged replies follow. Where there’s no reply for a given respondent, the question was either considered not applicable, or, in some cases, the answer would have given away future plans for new products (one respondent requesting we get back to him next year when he’ll tell us what all his company’s new products have inside).

Read more...
http://prosoundnews.com/blog/27542

Don

NetDummy » Blog Archive » Sharing Google Videos Without Related Links

Sharing Google Videos Without Related Links

By: Dave Taylor
February 26th, 2010

Hi Dave. I wanted to show my 12th grade a documentary about Fermat's Last Theorem. I was planning to send them the link via e-mail, and have them watch it at home. But the link (below) has a porn site listed under "related videos", so I don't feel that I can send it to them. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8269328330690408516 Do you know of a way for me to download that video onto my computer?

Dave's Answer:

NetDummy » Blog Archive » How To Easily Track Your Website Visitors

How To Easily Track Your Website Visitors

By: Dave Taylor
March 22nd, 2010

I don't have a blog, I don't have a fancy Web site and I don't have a profile on MySpace or Facebook, but I do get people coming to my simple little four-page Web site and I'd like to learn more about them. My sister says I want to run some "analytics" program, but I'm clueless. I can edit HTML, but what do I add?

Dave's Answer:

You are right to be thinking of this stuff. Without some sort of decent analytics it's just about impossible to know who is coming to your site and what they do once they get there. Add one of a number of different free packages, however, and you can extract a surprising amount of information by just poking around when you have the time.

Since you're comfortable with basic HTML, you also have a bit of a proverbial leg up on most folk because you can easily copy and paste the necessary Javascript into the correct spot on your pages without freaking out or breaking things. :-)

So there are a lot of different analytic programs on the market, but what I like is Google Analytics. It's free, it's powerful and it's fast enough loading that there's no performance penalty for your visitors (a big issue in my book). You can sign up for free, but you probably already have a Google account so it's even easier. Find out, go to Google Analytics and sign in / sign up.

Here's what it looks like when you "create new profile"

Go there...
http://www.netdummy.com/2010/03/22/how-to-easily-track-your-website-visitors/

Don

Windows Update » Blog Archive » Very Big Announcements Released About Windows Newest Smart Phone - WindowsDailyNews.com

Very Big Announcements Released About Windows Newest Smart Phone

By: Mads Kristensen

At the Mix10 conference, the Windows Phone 7 teams had some very big announcements – a lot of it had been kept secret and first revealed to the public now. There is however still some details they keep secret. Some of these secrets are the user agents of Internet Explorer for Windows Phone 7, which they simply wouldn’t give us.

After playing with Windows Phone 7 we managed to secure a copy of the user agent string. The user agent for IE on Windows Phone 7 running on the Asus Galaxy device is:

Read more...
http://www.windowsdailynews.com/2010/03/22/very-big-announcements-released-about-windows-newest-smart-phone/

Don

Popular FF add-on AdBlock Plus blocking "Spread Firefox" images

by Lee Mathews (RSS feed) Mar 21st 2010 at 1:00PM

Pretty much any time we run a list of favorite or popular Firefox add-ons, readers chime in with cheers for AdBlock Plus. It's always a source of controversy on blogs -- since most of 'em are delivering content for free in exchange for displaying adverts.

The Firefox Extension Guru blog noticed that -- for some reason -- updates he was making on his web sites weren't displaying for some reason, at least not in Firefox. When loading pages in Chrome he could see the edits. After a little digging, he found the cause: AdBlock Plus had blacklisted the particular element he was adding -- a "Spread Firefox" banner.

Oh, the irony.

Well, All I can say is... If it weren't for all these "advertisers" putting up so many Blinking, Irritating and Bandwidth Stealing Adds.... Bandwidth that I pay a pretty penny for, I might add! If it weren't for people taking a good thing, Free for the user, Advertising Paid Sites and turning them into nothing but an aggravating eye soar that gives people Seizures! There would never have been a need for things like AdBlock Plus. These "advertising" tactics have never sold me anything. I have just learned to ignore them over the past 12 years. Once upon a time I did click on an interesting add or two, back int the early days... But none of this stuff is anything but aggravating and Bandwidth Thievery now days!:O AdBlock Plus... thanks for being there for us users!:)

Don

Read more...
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/03/21/popular-ff-add-on-adblock-plus-blocking-spread-firefox-images/

Easy (and amazing) Debian for the N900. | Open attitude.

Easy (and amazing) Debian for the N900.

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By the time you read this my Nokia N900 will be packed up and on its way back to the kind folks who let me test it. As a last hurrah I spent my evening yesterday seeing how far I could push it; the results are fairly spectacular…

I had read previously about installing .deb files using something called “red pill mode“; this is no longer possible, but in its place is a fantastic app called Easy Debian which does exactly what its title would suggest .

Easy Debian is basically a virtual machine for your N900. It doesn’t require a dual-boot like Wubi, and is instead a full Debian desktop OS that runs as an app and won’t interfere with anything else on your device — except for available storage space.

Ok, So... If you're like me. You are thinking, sounds cool. But, what's an M900 and how much does this thing Cost??? Well, the link in this article took me to an Amazon Page with... Nokia N900 Unlocked Phone/Mobile Computer with 3.5-Inch Touchscreen, QWERTY, 5 MP Camera, Maemo Browser, 32 GB--U.S. Version. I was listed for $524.54!:O Now, I don't even have a LapTop yet! So, Ya... that's not the kind of phone I can afford. Must be nice to have money to burn!:O I'm wondering what about all these old Mobile Phones everyone has around. Can't we load some kind of Linux on them and make them good for something again??? Don

Read more...
http://openattitude.com/2010/03/19/easy-and-amazing-debian-for-the-n900/

YouTube Looking For Indie Bands | WebProNews

YouTube Looking For Indie Bands

YouTube Launches Musicians Wanted

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

By Mike Sachoff

YouTube has expanded its partner program and has introduced "Musicians Wanted" aimed at getting independent bands or artists to submit music videos to the site.

Interested independent bands or artist can apply for Musicians Wanted through YouTube's Partner Program. Those who are accepted will have their own page where they can add details about where they will be playing, provide links to buying music and showcase their music videos.

Independent artists will also share YouTube's advertising revenue generated by their music video plays as well as when videos are embedded on other websites, such as music blogs.

Go there... read more and see video...
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/03/17/youtube-looking-for-indie-bands

Don

YouTube Blog

If this is all True... I hope YouTube Wins!!!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Broadcast Yourself

Around the globe, YouTube has become a metaphor for the democratizing power of the Internet and information. YouTube gives unknown performers, filmmakers, and artists new ways to promote their work to a global audience and rise to worldwide fame; makes it possible for political candidates and elected officials to interact with the public in new ways; enables first-hand reporting from war zones and from inside repressive regimes; and lets students of all ages and backgrounds audit classes at leading universities.

Yet YouTube and sites like it will cease to exist in their current form if Viacom and others have their way in their lawsuits against YouTube.

In their opening briefs in the Viacom vs. YouTube lawsuit (which have been made public today), Viacom and plaintiffs claim that YouTube doesn't do enough to keep their copyrighted material off the site. We ask the judge to rule that the safe harbors in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA") protect YouTube from the plaintiffs' claims. Congress enacted the DMCA to benefit the public by permitting open platforms like YouTube to flourish on the Web. It gives online services protection from copyright liability if they remove unauthorized content once they’re on notice of its existence on the site.

With some minor exceptions, all videos are automatically copyrighted from the moment they are created, regardless of who creates them. This means all videos on YouTube are copyrighted -- from Charlie Bit My Finger, to the video of your cat playing the piano and the video you took at your cousin’s wedding. The issue in this lawsuit is not whether a video is copyrighted, but whether it's authorized to be on the site. The DMCA (and common sense) recognizes that content owners, not service providers like YouTube, are in the best position to know whether a specific video is authorized to be on an Internet hosting service.

Because content owners large and small use YouTube in so many different ways, determining a particular copyright holder’s preference or a particular uploader’s authority over a given video on YouTube is difficult at best. And in this case, it was made even harder by Viacom’s own practices.

For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt "very strongly" that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.

Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.

Given Viacom’s own actions, there is no way YouTube could ever have known which Viacom content was and was not authorized to be on the site. But Viacom thinks YouTube should somehow have figured it out. The legal rule that Viacom seeks would require YouTube -- and every Web platform -- to investigate and police all content users upload, and would subject those web sites to crushing liability if they get it wrong.

Viacom’s brief misconstrues isolated lines from a handful of emails produced in this case to try to show that YouTube was founded with bad intentions, and asks the judge to believe that, even though Viacom tried repeatedly to buy YouTube, YouTube is like Napster or Grokster.

Nothing could be further from the truth. YouTube has long been a leader in providing media companies with 21st century tools to control, distribute, and make money from their content online. Working in cooperation with rights holders, our Content ID system scans over 100 years worth of video every day and lets rights holders choose whether to block, leave up, or monetize those videos. Over 1,000 media companies are now using Content ID -- including every major U.S. network broadcaster, movie studio, and record label -- and the majority of those companies choose to make money from user uploaded clips rather than block them. This is a true win-win that reflects our long-standing commitment to working with rights holders to give them the choices they want, while advancing YouTube as a platform for creativity.

We look forward to defending YouTube, and upholding the balance that Congress struck in the DMCA to protect the rights of copyright holders, the progress of technological innovation, and the public interest in free expression.

Posted by Zahavah Levine, YouTube Chief Counsel

Go there...
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/

Don

YouTube - Pomplamoose - Always in the Season

YouTube - Pomplamoose - Always in the Season
I just found this because of their other video about YouTube looking for Indi Music Artists...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnolku2sJc4#

This is a Great song and video and a Great thing they were doing for Christmas!:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-OFaFzHQM&feature=channel

Don

Sunday, March 21, 2010

open source linux file organize software

open source linux file organize software: open source linux file organize software - Google Search; List of free and open source software packages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; WinMerge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; Category:Free file managers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; HTTP File Server - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; HFS ~ HTTP File Server

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How to Repair and Replace a Pocket Door - DIY Home Improvement Guides - How to Repair and Remodel your Bathroom, Kitchen and more

Upgrade your door hardware with new pocket door pulls and track to give new life to existing pocket doors in your home.

Click here to view full project video

Pocket doors are a great feature of many older homes, but as homes and door jambs settle over time, the pocket doors can start to show gaps when closed. Additionally, the hardware can start to drag after years of use, making the door difficult to open and close. By replacing the operating hardware on the door, you can revitalize the functionality of the pocket door, and improve the way that it looks.

Step by Step Instructions with Video

We have a double sliding door to the closet in the living room, which has needed repairs for 30 years!;O The just set on the floor for the most part and are pretty hard to slide...
Go there...
http://www.ronhazelton.com/article/home/windows/UDIzMQ/How_to_Repair_and_Replace_a_Pocket_Door_

Biggest 747 ever built takes its maiden flight | DVICE

Biggest 747 ever built takes its maiden flight

The biggest plane ever built in the U.S. has taken to the air. This Boeing 747-8 freighter prototype flew its maiden test flight, proving that a plane that's even longer than that huge Airbus A380 can actually fly.

After Boeing cranks out a few cargo versions, this plane that weighs about as much as 5,100 fat American guys will be built in a passenger version. Those lucky enough to have a window seat will be able to peer out of peepholes that are 8% larger than those on today's 747s.

President Obama might soon be flying in one too. Boeing is urging the Air Force to get rid of its old 747 VC25s and instead use one of these behemoths as Air Force One.

Via Fast Company

Go there see Pic...
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/biggest-747-eve.php

Don

Internet Explorer 9 adds HTML5, drops Windows XP | DVICE

Well... MS Strikes Again! On their own Creation... Say good by to Surfing the Net with your Beloved Win XP!! They just Gut Shot XP and left it dying and bleeding... just like they did 98!!!:O Perhaps you could say Gut Sliced... either way then end result is the same:( Boy, I'm glad I have Linux!;)

Internet Explorer 9 adds HTML5, drops Windows XP

Good news for fans of Microsoft's in-house browser (but bad news for folks who still use XP): the next iteration of Internet Explorer adds a slew of attractive features, and gets ready for a more attractive web overall.

The good news: Internet Explorer 9 will add support for HTML5, which really is a no-brainer considering it'll be one of the new standards on the net, and allow for the browser to run more complicated video and graphical elements. IE9 is also getting hardware acceleration, meaning more resources to work with for a speedier browser overall. A new JavaScript engine will do the same, making sites such as Gmail more responsive.

The bad news: XP users are going to be left behind, as Microsoft has made it official that IE9 will not support Windows XP.

You can try out an early test build of IE9 for yourself here.

Via Gizmodo

Go there...
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/internet-explor.php

Don

Unfolding briefcase-laptop is perfect for secret agents | DVICE

Unfolding briefcase-laptop is perfect for secret agents

We may not get the name — "Playing By Heart" — but we're definitely down with the concept. Zhang Shouze's svelte laptop folds into a briefcase when you're in transit, and unpacks into a laptop when you need to use it. Unfolded, its legs even act as a stand, a thing a lot of people use these days to improve laptop ventilation. You also benefit from not having to lug a laptop bag around if you don't want to, as this thing turns into its own case.

Again, don't get too excited: this thing's just a concept — and that's definitely a bummer.

Via Yanko Design

Go there see Pic...
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/unfolding-brief.php

Don

Kaboom! Large Hadron Collider triples its own world record | DVICE

Kaboom! Large Hadron Collider triples its own world record

The only thing better than claiming a world record is utterly smashing it, and that's exactly what the Large Hadron Collider did this morning in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC previously managed to reach an energy of 1.18 TeV. I guess I should be embarrassed I ever reported that as news, because that was apparently small potatoes: the LHC has pretty much tripled that previous benchmark and is now circulating beams at a whopping 3.5 TeV.

"Getting the beams to 3.5 TeV is testimony to the soundness of the LHC's overall design, and the improvements we've made since the breakdown in September 2008," CERN's director for accelerators and technology, Steve Myers, said in a statement.

So not only is the Large Hadron Collider the world's most powerful particle accelerator, but now it claims that crown several times over. This probably isn't the accelerator's peak, either, as when it first started up before that fateful, catastrophic leak it was capable of pushing into the 5 TeV spectrum.

Via PhysOrg

Go there...
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/kaboom-large-ha.php

Don

Cybernet Manufacturing - ZPC-GX31

This is kind of a Cool Key Board - PC...

http://www.cybernetman.com/en/products/zero-footprint-pc/

See Demo and Inside...
http://www.cybernetman.com/pop/pop_9100_presentation.cfm

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Cardboard package magically morphs into record player | DVICE

Cardboard package magically morphs into record player

Sound engineering company GGRP wanted to show off its audio and cleverness chops, so it went primitive, taking a leap of creativity with this cardboard packaging that turns into a record player.

Embedded in one of the box's edges is a needle, and when you place the enclosed record on the embedded spindle, it's a simple matter of inserting a pencil into a hole in the middle of the record and turning it.

There you have it — scratchy sound just like in the Victrola days, and a successful promotion that you won't soon forget. Brilliant.

Go there see more...
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/cardboard-packa.php

Don

Lawn Mower Scooter makes weekend chores more fun | DVICE

Lawn Mower Scooter makes weekend chores more fun

Mowing the lawn is the biggest downside to having a lawn. It's a tedious, sweaty affair, one that takes valuable time away from relaxing. But what if you combined lawn mowing with something fun, like riding around on a scooter? Brilliant.

Sure, this thing is just a concept right now, and it's basically a more cutesy version of a riding lawnmower that is probably far less effective at actually cutting the grass than a more traditional model, but come on! It's a scooter that cuts grass!

Go there see Pic...
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/lawn-mower-scoo.php

Alfie Audio iPod Audio System Brings Sexy Back to the Bedroom

By Ali

January 29, 2008 at 7:06 am

I have never been a fan of alarm clocks. They are just nasty little boxes that make noise at 7am and remind you its time to get up to go to work. Well the Alfie iPod Audio System is looking to put the sexy back in alarm clock radios. Not just your typical morning noise maker, Alfie is a beautiful piece of equipment that you may want to think twice about before smashing the snooze. The clock is covered in a sleek polished black laquer design with an iPod dock located on the back of the unit. Inside it has a FM/AM radio, Digital Clock with Dual Alarm, Bass enhancement and subwoofer, CD tray for Music CD’s, and it comes with a remote control. All of this pumping out at 40 Watts. Currently there is no pricing available, only some wholesalers you contact directly if you are interested in buying.

Go there see Pics...
http://www.chipchick.com/2008/01/alfie_audio_ipod_audio_system_brings_sexy_back_to_the_bedroom.html

Don

You can see Google from here: a Zeppelin view of San Francisco | DVICE

You can see Google from here: a Zeppelin view of San Francisco

Joyriding

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You can see Google from here: a Zeppelin view of San Francisco

When we first heard about Airship Ventures, a company that's resurrected the Zeppelin for air tours of San Francisco and other locations, we said: Sign us up! Well, the company took us seriously, giving us a free ride on one of their airships for a quick flight around the Bay Area (such a ride typically costs about $500). The result: some top-notch sightseeing, and the only flight we've ever taken when it was okay to open a window on the aircraft. It's all caught by our trusty camcorder — experience airship travel via the video and continue reading for the full story on the Zeppelin.

See the Video...
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/you-can-see-goo.php

Don

Saturday, March 20, 2010

I was Searching on http://www.osalt.com/ the site to...

"Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software"

I was searching for, "file organize" looking for an App to reorganize all my files and folders and I hit a Gold Mine of Apps!:) They turn out to be for allot more purposes than just file organization and actually I didn't find just what I was looking for. But what I did find was very interesting!:) Check em out...

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LimeWire 5.3
LimeWire stepped in to replace Napster after it was shut down and has become the most popular client for the Gnutella network. Its clean interface works on any operating system as long as you have... Alternatives: FrostWire

FrostWire 4.18
FrostWire is an alternative peer-to-peer file sharing service on the Gnutella network that is modeled after LimeWire and in fact, derived its code from LimeWire Pro. You'll find it a bit different...

WS_FTP Professional 2007
WS_FTP Professional is a complete package for all of your file transfer needs. Apart from the normal ftp it supports secure ftp (sftp) based of the best security/encryption protocols. WS_FTP can also... Alternatives: FileZilla Cyberduck WinSCP

Cyberduck 3.1
For Mac OS X Cyberduck is simply one of the best ftp clients around. Supporting both standard ftp and secure ftp (sftp) - Cyberduck is a versatile and easy to use ftp client. Additionally Cyberduck...

GParted 0.3.3
GParted is an open source partition manager also known as the Gnome Partition Editor application. It is actualy a LiveCD/LiveUSB that allows you to boot directly into GParted when you need it -...

ThinkingRock 2.2
Thinking Rock is a GTD (getting things done) application you can use both at home or at work. It is a very simple, bare bones way to organize and implement tasks with more options and choices than...

MindTouch Core 9
MindTouch is the Web's most popular commercially supported wiki platform for creating content and mashups using a wiki interface. The free, open source application is an easy to use program...

Inkscape 0.46
Inkscape is an open source 2d vector graphics editor. Supports all of the standard drawing features your will find in similar commercial product. Curves (bezier), lines, freehand drawing including...

7-Zip 4.57
7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio. It supports the following formats for packing/unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR - and the following for unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH,...

mIRC 6.21
mIRC is by far the most well-known IRC (internet relay chat) client on the market - and it has been for more than a decade. mIRC allows you to chat with people all over the world through different... Alternatives: XChat HydraIRC

FreeOTFE 4.71
FreeOTFE (on the fly encryption) is an open source tool for safe-keeping of your files through encryption. FreeOTFE allows you to create virtual encrypted disk drives - either as files on your...

Inno Setup 5.1.6
Inno Setup is a feature-rich open source installer for Windows applications. With it's integrated Pascal scripting engine you have full control of both installation as well as uninstallation. Inno...

Drupal 6.2
Drupal is an open source software package for individuals or communities of users that need to publish, organize and manage a website's content also know as a content management system (CMS). ...

Emesene 1.0.1
Emesene is a MSN Messenger clone, which primary goal is to support all features of the Windows Live Messenger Network (WLM). However, it does have a few extra features - besides trying to be...

Greenshot 0.7
Greenshot is a screenshot tool, supports several image formats as well as saving part or all of a screen into a file within one second's time. This program takes only a small amount of memory, a...

LMMS 0.4.5
Linux Multimedia Studio (LMMS) is a free DAW (digital audio workstation) created for Linux & Windows. Although it has a rather steep learning curve, there are many tutorials and it includes several...

Qt Creator 1.2.1
When you want to build applications with state of the art GUI interfaces you may want to look at Nokia's Qt Creator. It is focused on the idea of providing Qt users the features they need to get up...

Things 1.2
There are a lot of GTD (getting things done) applications flooding the market today, trying to make our lives easier and more organized. One of the latest is called "Things" and is both available... Alternatives: ThinkingRock

Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0
Norton Ghost is almost the ultimate solution when it comes to backing up your data. It backs up everything on your harddisks including operating system. Even if you have a complete harddisk failure -... Alternatives: Ghost for Unix (G4U) Partition Image Clonezilla

Adobe Illustrator CS3
Adobe Illustrator takes sophisticated drawing to a whole new level with its latest array of drawing tools, type and color controls and timesaving features. Whether you are drawing for industrial... Alternatives: Inkscape Skencil Xara LX

Kino 1.3
Kino is open source non-linear video editing at it's best. Easily imports DV video through IEEE-1394 (firewire) and allow detailed editing and transition effect for both video and audio. The move...

Apple iTunes 8
iTunes has gone through a massive development over the past few years. It started as a simple music player and organizer required to transfer music to and from your iPod - today iTunes is a portal to... Alternatives: Amarok Banshee Songbird musikCube

K3b 1.0.1
K3b is an open source application for creating/burning CDs and DVDs. Features include CD and DVD ripping with DivX/XviD encoding, DVD copy, ISO burning, Video CD (VCD) creation, Audio CD creation for...

Clonezilla
Clonezilla is an open source solution to computer backup, restoration and "ghosting". It is based on partition imaging and allows you to backup and recover your system should it be taken out by a...

Pidgin 2.6
Pidgin is an instant messenger (IM) application that cover multiple protocols - including (but not limited to) AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Novell GroupWise Messenger and Lotus Sametime. These...

aMSN 0.96
aMSN is an open source clone of MSN Messenger. It aims to implement as many features as possible from the original, and to provide even more features on top of that. Alot of the extra features are...

Fraps 2.8
Fraps is a great product in the unique market of real-time video capturing of DirectX an OpenGL based applications - mainly computer games. Fraps allows you to benchmark your games in always let you... Alternatives: Taksi

jGnash 1.10.6
jGnash is an open source personal finance manager. It will help you monitor and keep track of your accounts including investments. jGnash can import from Quicken (qif) and GnuCash - and generate...

Adium 1.2.4
Adium is open source instant messaging for Mac OS X. All of the most widely use protocols are supported such as AIM, ICQ, .MAC, MSN, Jabber and more - even Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime are...

Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
Available as freeware from Microsoft - Windows Media Player is the default choice when it comes to playing either music or video on the Microsoft Windows platforms. Windows Media Player also allows... Alternatives: VLC media player Helix Player MPlayer Amarok Miro Songbird musikCube

Sumatra PDF 0.9
Sumatra PDF is a fairly young project aiming to create a small, simple and fast PDF viewer. It main features are showing PDFs and starting up really fast - and it does both just perfectly. Apart form...

FreeMind 0.8.0
FreeMind is a great open source for all steps of project management. From simple note taking at project meetings - over brainstorming for new projects and keeping track of projects and time...

XML Copy Editor 1.2
XML Copy Editor is a versatile XML editor primarily focused on text editing with XML files. However, XML Copy Editor provides many other features including validation of DTD and XML schemas - as well...

MPlayer 1.0
MPlayer is an open source movie player originally made for Linux. Today, however, a number of platforms are supported - and it is most likely the movie player that supports the most formats....

WinZip 12
WinZip is what most computer users think of when they want to compress files to send or to save on their own computers. As well as saving space, WinZip is easy to use and is so common that nearly... Alternatives: 7-Zip

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0
Among the top 3 anti-virus products on the market you will surely find Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Well known for its outstanding detection rates Kaspersky is a sure pick when it comes to multilevel... Alternatives: ClamWin Clam AntiVirus Winpooch

Komodo Edit 5
Komodo Edit is an open source editor by ActiveState that is different from your run-of-the-mill editor in that it has many features that are usually absent in editors, but you might find in IDEs...

Alfresco 2.1
Alfresco (Italian for "outdoors") is an open source, less expensive alternative to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The plentiful ECM (enterprise content management) features of Alfresco rival the...

Xpdf 3.02
Xpdf is an open source PDF or Acrobat file viewer. Designed and works under virtually any unix operating system. Only its command-line tool are available in Windows. Xpdf support the latest PDF...

SciTE 1.73
SciTE is a developers editor. Originally made as an example for the Scintilla project - an open source source code editing component, SciTE today is a fully featured text editor for developers using...

xvidcap 1.1.4
xvidcap is a screencast application for Linux. It allows you to capture either parts of the full screen of your Linux desktop. This makes it an ideal tool for making either demonstrations of software...

WikidPad 1.8
If you've ever been frustrated in finding the ideal application for organizing all your ideas, lists, contacts or notes, you'll be glad you tried WikidPad. The concept of "wiki" comes from the...

jEdit 4.2
jEdit is powerful open source editor that has taken the best features from all other editors and combined them into one. And as an open source java application is runs on virtually any platform....

Seashore 0.1.9
Seashore, an open source image editing program for the MacOS's Cocoa framework, stands somewhere between the old MacPaint and Photoshop. Its advantage lies in serving the basic image editing needs...

Editra 0.4
Editra is an open source text editor that supports a variety of features, including syntax highlighting, for over sixty programming languages. Since it is built using wxWidgets, it can run on...

WinMerge 2.6
WinMerge is an excellent tool for developers that simplifies merging. Start by selecting two directories and WinMerge will quickly show you which files are alike - and which there are different and...

Bacula 2.2.7
Bacula is an open source networked backup system for Linux/Unix, Mac and Windows clients. Contrary to some other backup solutions Bacula uses a specific client application written for each operating...

Microsoft OneNote 2007
At last, someone has put an end to endless sticky notes and lost slips of paper! Microsoft's Office OneNote allows you to gather all your information in text, pictures, audio and video recordings... Alternatives: WikidPad Zim

InterVideo WinDVD 7
WinDVD is a fully featured DVD player - with superb video and audio quality. It also plays Real media, QuickTime, H.264 - and high definition formats such as WMV-HD. DivX support includes subtitles... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer

Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2010
Probably the oldest, most well-know and widely used antivirus application. Protects while surfing the net, chatting, emailing and file swapping. Alternatives: ClamWin Clam AntiVirus Winpooch

VanDyke SecureCRT 5.1
For all your needs concerning secure communication either secure shell (SSH) or secure file transfer (SFTP) SecureCRT is the answer. Other advanced features include scripting, and tabbed display. Alternatives: PuTTY Poderosa

QuickBooks 2009
QuickBooks by Intuit (who also make Quicken) is an accounting software package for small and medium-sized businesses. One of its strongest assets is its ease of use, allowing responsible record... Alternatives: PostBooks

CuteFTP 8
For many years CuteFTP has been a household name when is comes to effecient and simple file transfer (ftp) primeraly used by people how want to publish/upload their websites. CuteFTP's forces are... Alternatives: FileZilla Cyberduck WinSCP

Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.0
Pentaho is an open source business intelligence (BI) platform that takes ETL (extract, transform, and load), reporting, data analysis, dashboards, and data mining and pulls them together on top of...

Sakai 2.5
Sakai is an open source learning system, an online collaboration to support teaching, learning and research collaboration. Many of the developers come from the organizations that are using Sakai; an...

XChat 2.8
XChat is an IRC (internet relay chat) client. IRC is a world wide chat systems that has existed since the 80s. Based on multiple networks of servers where each network lists it's own topics (aka...

HydraIRC 0.3
Hydra IRC, an open source chat client, is quickly gaining a stellar reputation. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) used to be only for the computer literate but Hydra makes it easy for anyone to enjoy it. ...

Snagit 9.1
TechSmith Corporation's Snagit has already won awards for its ease of use in capturing images from a computer. Not only can you capture images from webpages, video games or movie clips, you can edit... Alternatives: Greenshot

Typo3 4.2
Typo3, a content management system (CMS), is feature rich and yet is one of the easiest systems to learn. With new functions being created by more than 300 registered developers on a frequent basis,...

Zim 0.28
Zim-Wiki is a very useful open source application that allows you to organize your notes and thoughts. Simple to use and easy to learn, it supports inline images so that you can insert images from...

XMind 3
Mind mapping is the new approach to preparing big projects or organizing functions among a group or just helping you get things done in a timely manner. XMind is an open source program that helps...

Microsoft NetMeeting 3.01
NetMeeting is Microsoft's desktop videoconferencing tool that allows people to have face to face meetings via computer. If you have Windows 2000 or XP, you can take advantage of this marvelous... Alternatives: Ekiga

KeePass 2
KeePass is an open source password manager. Once you begin using this KeePass you'll need only one master password to unlock its database and you don't even have to remember that one. If you...

Ableton Live 8
Ableton Live is loop-based music sequencer designed to be as much an instrument as a composing and arranging tool. DJs often use it for precision mixing. Ableton Live has been designed for use... Alternatives: LMMS

Ventrilo 3.0
Ventrilo is a scalable VoIP designed to solve problems with packet loss, uptime, network latency and administration. Although Ventrilo is popular with gamers, it is good for home and personal use... Alternatives: Mumble

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Mumble 1.1

LMMS 0.4.5

FreeMind 0.8.0

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Monday, March 22, 2010

Sharing Google Videos Without Related Links

How To Easily Track Your Website Visitors

YouTube Looking For Indie Bands

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Biggest 747 ever built takes its maiden flight

Internet Explorer 9 adds HTML5, drops Windows XP

Unfolding briefcase-laptop is perfect for secret agents

Kaboom! Large Hadron Collider triples its own world record

Cardboard package magically morphs into record player

Lawn Mower Scooter makes weekend chores more fun

You can see Google from here: a Zeppelin view of San Francisco

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You can see Google from here: a Zeppelin view of San Francisco

Saturday, March 20, 2010

"Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software"