Software Recommendation – Opcion – A free font viewer
Sometimes when I am working on a picture and I want a particular look in a font for the picture I will add them one at a time. Then recently I found Opcion. Opicon is a free open source font viewer that allows you to view both installed and uninstalled TrueType fonts on Windows, Linux, […]
Software Recommendation – Scribus
In the past I have used OpenOffice.org Impress for page layout, but I downloaded Scribus today. Scribus is Open Source Desktop Publishing like Pagemaker or Quark. It’s for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows First of all it comes from Sourceforge so I trust it right away. It’s not very big, about 18MB. and at […]
Quick MySQL Backup
Backing up your data can be a hassle, but there is nothing worse than having something go wrong and losing all of it completely. Here’s a very good for an easy way to backup your MySQL database from zmanda.com. It uses all open source software so it is readily available and free. More
Free Is Good
Scott Ginsberg is an author and speaker who wears a nametag 24/7 to make people friendlier. He recently wrote a post called “The power of FREE?” I am a big fan of Free. Some of the biggest sites on the Internet have been built by giving away free stuff (Google). So what can you or […]
JPG Magazine: A New Kind of Magazine
“We consider ourselves an open source magazine — participants have access to everything the editors have access to…. In traditional magazines, it’s all about hoarding until that last moment and then going ta-da – buy the magazine!” Issue 7 of JPG Magazine had 2,400 submissions come together to make this great looking photog mag. The […]
The Growing Role of Open Source
Here is one of the most comprehensive surveys on Open Source Software that I have seen. According to Dr. Anthony Picardi, senior vice president, Global Software, who analyzed IDC surveys from over 5,000 developers from 116 countries, “The use of open source beyond Linux is pervasive, used by almost three-quarters of organizations and spanning hundreds […]
bytefx – simple effects in few bytes
Bytefx. A fast, lightweight and crossbrowser javascript library with some usefull and common special effect for your page elements. I believe all are open source and are easy to use lightweight applications. It’s a page well worth checking out. More..
Why Not Have Open Hardware As Well?
Open Source software is taking the world by storm and changing everyone’s business model to one degree or another why not use the same model for hardware as well. I think many manufacturers are missing the boat on this issue and the one who steps up now can stake their claim as the industry leader […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Tremulous: The best free software game ever?
Here?s something for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Linux and open source software lag behind the proprietary market in the number and quality of available video games, especially in the realm of first-person shooters (FPS), a genre dominated by the likes of Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half-Life, […]
Photoshop Tips & Tricks
I was looking for some Photoshop help the other day, well OK I was looking for some GIMP tricks actually. As you may know about me, I a big open source supporter and I use GIMP not Photoshop. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such […]
