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Miro

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

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Creativity will never reach its peak without competition. Just like online video companies. And if every tool for videos are not open sourced, free speech will be hindered. Thats why Miro came out to be. It was designed to give more freedom to video producers and [...]

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Using ‘dd’ Commands

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

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The ‘ dd ‘ command is one of the original Unix utilities and should be in everyone’s tool box. It can strip headers, extract parts of binary files and write into the middle of floppy disks; it is used by the Linux kernel Makefiles to make boot images. It can be used to [...]

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Open source program for file compression

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Here’s another award-winning program that was developed and is being improved through a community effort: 7-ZIP. It supports a large number of file compression formats, such as ZIP, RAR, CAB, GZIP, and TAR. It also has its own format called 7Z, which promises to be 30%-50% better than ZIP. Read about 7Z here.
There [...]

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An open source Office

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

If you don’t want to shell out hundreds of dollars for Microsoft Word, Excel, and the other software bundled with Microsoft Office, I can point you towards a good alternative that doesn’t involve piracy.
Try Open Office, a bundle of open source software that has everything you need: a word processing program, spreadsheets, presentation software à [...]

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Open Source Blogging Platforms

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Did you know that even the software that this blog runs on is open source? Yup, Wordpress is developed by the user community. Other popular blogging platforms that are open source are Movable Type and Livejournal.
The advantage of this arrangement is that it puts power into the hands of the people who are most [...]

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Open source for teachers

Monday, February 18th, 2008

gnuschool is an open source web-based application for testing, grading, and attendance for educators, students, and school administrators. Its numerous features help teachers and school administrators do the following:

create, edit, view tests
monitor and search for tests
give makeup tests
search grades
view grades
take class attendance
search attendance
arrange room seating
edit the way student information is displayed

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Paint.NET

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Paint.NET is an open source raster graphics editing program designed made for Windows and developed on the .NET framework. It was originally programmed using the C# and C++ programming language. Paint.NET was created as a project by a student in Washington State University with the purpose of making a good replacement for the MS Paint [...]

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Sick of Notepad?

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

If you want a more flexible and open source text editor, this can be useful:jEdit features include:

Runs on any operating system with a Java 2 version 1.3 or higher virtual machine - this includes MacOS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
Efficient keyboard shortcuts
Comprehensive online help
Unlimited undo/redo
Copy and paste with an unlimited number of clipboards (known [...]

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