Ubiquity: turning us all into power users (2)
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Ubiquity was officially announced this week. I installed it and I find myself using it all the time for really simple, but very useful, stuff. I use a calculator a lot. Now, when I'm in the middle of typing an email or reading a web page, I just hit two keys and type "calc 3256/3+2456" and there's my answer. If I see a word I don't know, I just hit two keys and type "define ...
Scientific Identity (1)
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I have been thinking a lot about distributed identity lately and what it means for scientists. This was fueled by a bunch of things, including the recent news about OAuth, and discussions around social networks in science. We keep talking about how to connect information together. In the general web world, you have various services that, with varying degrees of success, bring things together into a common namespace. What we need to do in the ...
Συζητώντας και διαβάζοντας για το Ελεύθερο Λογισμικό (1)
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Καθώς οι εξελίξεις γύρω από το ελεύθερο λογισμικό, τα ανοικτά πρότυπα και τις διανομές linux γίνονται όλο και πιο ραγδαίες και οι όροι αυτοί ακούγονται όλο και πιο συχνά από τα μέσα ενημέρωσης και τους ειδικούς του χώρου της πληροφορικής, όλο και πιο συχνά βρίσκομαι στη θέση να προσπαθώ να εξηγήσω σε φίλους και γνωστούς που έχουν από μεγάλη έως ελάχιστη επαφή και γνώση του χώρου της πληροφορικής, διάφορες πτυχές των χαρακτηριστικών του ελεύθερου λογισμικού, ...
Why Are All the Open Source Advocates on Twitter? (6)
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As I am speaking, Utah is having their yearly Open Source conference. If you’re in Utah or outside Utah (most of my audience is outside Utah), it is well worth the trip with some great topics from ssh tips and tricks to Wordpress Performance and Scalability by Utah’s own Joseph Scott from Automattic. I would be there myself but I have deadlines I have to meet this week (I have a big announcement to make ...
http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/08/28/zimplit-an-easiest-content-management-system-ever-made.html (4)
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Zimplit is the easiest CMS (Content Management System) ever made. Zimplit is extremely lightweight, simple and customizable. It’s easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface. Zimplit consists of only one core engine file. And of course – it’s FREE. It seems Zimplit was made for normal people, not for IT gurus because it is very handy and easy in use and need no technical knowledge. It has an easiest web ...
A global Chinese software company in the next 20 years? (1)
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As China's appetite for technological advancement through acquisition grows, will we see a global Chinese-based software vendor emerge? READ MORE
Quebec Group Sues Provincial Government for Failing to Consider Open Source Alternatives (2)
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FACIL, a Quebec-based open source software advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit against the Quebec government for failing to consider open source software alternatives. FACIL argues in its filing [unofficial English translation] that the government spends millions on proprietary software without objectively evaluating open source alternatives that could enhance the local economy and provincial technology companies. It cites legal regulation that require contracts be placed for tender, yet notes many Microsoft contracts that were never ...
SA election body rejects Linux users (1)
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Fourteen years ago South Africa buried Apartheid and, for the first time ever, all South Africans were able to vote in democratic national elections. It was a pivotal moment in South African history. It’s a pity, however, that the South African Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), which runs democratic elections in the country, finds it unnecessary to allow South Africans to access its website. Visiting the IEC website with anything other than Windows and Internet Explorer ...
15 kostenlose Open-Source-Wikis im Überblick (7)
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Ursprung des Namens: hawaiianische "Wiki Wiki"-Shuttlebusse. Wikis (vom hawaiianischen Wort für "schnell") sind eigentlich genau das, was sich der Web-Erfinder Tim Berners-Lee schon vorstellte, als er das Web entwickelte: Webseiten, die man nicht nur lesen, sondern auch direkt ändern kann. Gemeinsam mit anderen Autoren ist es so möglich, an Texten kollektiv zu arbeiten. Berühmtestes Beispiel ist die Wikipedia. 1994 hatte Ward Cunningham das erste Wiki unter dem Namen WikiWikiWeb entwickelt. Seitdem hat sich viel getan, ...
TouchKit Brings Surface-Like Multitouch to the Nerdy Masses (8)
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Touchkit, a open source (software and hardware) multitouch kit designed by NOR_/D, has been announced at a $1580 price point, or roughly 1/8th the cost of Microsoft's Surface table. That's not to say that the TouchKit is equivalent or even necessarily a competitor to Microsoft's offering, but it is theoretically capable of many of the same flashy tricks. The system must be hooked up to a separate computer, and also requires an external projector. As ...
Hands-on with Aurora, Open Source DJ Control Surface, Shipping Now (6)
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Not happy with what you can get off the shelf? Build your own. That’s increasingly the philosophy of people working on music hardware. But a second economy is growing around these unique, boutique projects. By open-sourcing the designs, they offer the opportunity to build upon their work, buying something from a small group of designer-musicians and then modifying it to your purposes. The latest addition is the Aurora, which just became available for sale this ...
Simplify ActiveRecord Aggregates And Other Goodies Via named_scope (1)
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Using the Rails 2.1 named_scope feature just for simplifying find conditions is like using a Swiss Army Knife only as a screwdriver.
GamePark releasing new GP2X portable in October (1)
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GP2X, fine purveyor of open source handheld gaming devices, will be releasing the GP2X Wiz on October 9th for around $180. The Wiz will replace the F-200 from about a year ago. You can pre-order the Wiz at Play-Asia if you’re the type that likes to cross stuff off the to-do list well in advance. The device features a 533MHz processor with 3D accelerator, Linux-based OS, an SDK, emulation support for most major old-school consoles ...
Create your own playlist hosting service with Opentape (4)
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Filed under: misc hacksWhile Muxtape takes a breather to resolve an issue with the RIAA, Lifehacker has a step by step guide on installing and running Opentape, an open source PHP web application that's similar to Muxtape. Take matters into your own hands and create your own version of playlist hosting heaven. Since Opentape is open source, you can adapt it and make it an even better application. Maybe your creation will be even more ...
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joco said:
Ebbe az irányba mozdulni érdekes lesz, mindenkit beperel a RIAA vajon?
Mozilla Ubiquity comandos en lenguaje natural desde Firefox (4)
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La fundación Mozilla lanzó hace unos días su proyecto Ubiquity algo bastante interesante que busca traer el lenguaje natural a todos los usuarios de Firefox, la idea es simple y es unir comandos a una interfaz que te “entienda”. Algo interesante aunque puede resultar confuso para algunos es que los comandos pueden ser desarrollados por terceros para luego instalar en este plugin, pero la idea en sí es muy buena… es mucho más simple (como ...
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zetxek said:
Para instalarlo, https://people.mozilla.com/~avarma/ubiquity-0.1.xpiNo es más que una alfa, pero esto promete.
Ubiquity für Firefox - ich liebe es (2)
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Ubiquity ist fast so schwer zu Schreiben wie del.icio.us - zumindest für non-native speakers. Aber das wird wohl nicht verhindern, dass zumindest unter Geeks Ubiquity zu einer Standard-Extension für Firefox werden wird. Wer ActiveWords kennt, der weiss jetzt schon in etwas um was es geht. Allen anderen hier eine erste Erklärung: With Ubiquity installed, you’ll be able to tell Firefox what you want it to do by typing commands into a new Ubiquity input box. ...
Mozilla shows off Ubiquity: Mashups for the rest of us (2)
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Mozilla Labs introduced Ubiquity, an experiment that would allow users to create mashups at will without any advance knowledge. The game plan for Ubiquity, still in its early stages, is to allow users to control the browser by searching on something in real English and then connecting the dots with existing APIs (Techmeme). In other words, the rest of us can create mashups and extend the browser easily. Mozilla describes a simple map meets email ...
Why search competition isn't the point (7)
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This morning, in response to my Microhoo: Corporate Penis Envy? piece, Michael Arrington wrote The importance of a competitive search market. First, let's be clear. I agree with Michael that competition is a good thing, and that there's a real risk that, absent competition, Google will become "evil," as "absolute power corrupts absolutely." Nonetheless, I thought I'd take a few moments to explore why Michael got it wrong, despite the fundamental appeal of his assertion, ...
Secret Maryo Chronicles (1)
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Slideshow Description Secret Maryo Chronicles is an Open-Source two-dimensional platform game with a style designed similar to classic side-scroller games. It uses the platform independent library SDL and, since version 0.98, the OpenGL accelerated Graphics Renderer. The game is developed in C++. Video Rating/Review I was looking for a FLOSS version, clone, or adaptation of Nintendo®’s Super Mario Bros.™, the first console game I played with my first and only console platform - the Nintendo ...
