Posts about Open Source Software as of August 15, 2009

Next month’s Gov2.0 Summit (9-10 Sep) is going to be a great event.  From what I’ve seen of the agenda and the hard work the conference organizers have been putting into this I can tell it will bring together a great mix of techies, govies, innovators and citizens in a fast-moving, productive discussion about Web2.0 [...] Related posts:Vision for the Enterprise CTO: Lessons from DNI Vision 2015The Technology Implications of the Obama WinSome “Must Attend” Events in the Federal IT Space [This

Software designed by open source standards has security built in and has been found to be fielded with far fewer faults per unit of code than proprietary development houses.  There are many reasons for this.  This factor is especially true when the open source code is commercially supported.  For example, Linux, which has the strength [...] Related posts:A proposal for government certification of open source softwareOpen Source for America: A resource for the Gov2.0 CTOOpen Source Databases

WordPress is simply the best blogging platform on the planet! Being open source software, developers around the world have produced hundreds of plugins to enhance its basic functionality, as a result blogging has never been easier, and the search engines love it! Blogging with WordPress offers two huge advantages:1. It’s FREE to download and use2. The [...]

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Incredible though it may seem, the Australian government seems bound and determined to use taxpayer money in an enterprise to spy on taxpayers on behalf of the Korporate Kopyright Kartels who, of course, are not taxpaying citizens of Australia. “In the Australian Federal Government’s latest assault on the internet,” writes [.] Did it ever really go away? New report shows developers are using more JavaScript and PHP, but C still dominates in one measure.

I’m starting to realize that my cell phone is out of date. So, I’m looking to get a new one soon-ish. My current cell phone is an LG VX6000 through US Cellular. For the purposes of talking on the phone, it gets the job done just fine. I don’t use the easyedge features. I wish it were a bit more customizable. It only supports MIDI sound that I’m aware of. The only way I’ve found to add my own music is to buy this USB cable off ebay, and use some open source software to access it, but even then I can’t completely customize.

So far this is my favorite piece on the “Freemium” concept.  It comes via Union Square ventures a vc based in NYC. Click Here To Find Out Why Chris Anderson & Malcolm Gladwell Are Wrong! Introduction (Via UnionSquare) Anderson’s book points out that the cost of providing web services is declining as a result of open source software, commodity hardware, and cheap bandwidth. Gladwell agrees with the trend but notes that it is very expensive for YouTube to host video.

Has your wife ever deleted photos from her camera and begged you to recover them? (Mine did!) Did you accidentally delete a movie off of your hard disk that you really wanted to watch? Thanks to some wonderful open-source software named PhotoRec , it’s really easy to recover your data. It’s available for free for Windows, Mac OS X, and most UNIX flavors. PhotoRec is a command-line utility, but also surprisingly user-friendly.

For starters, Adbard is a new advertising network for technology based websites based upon the promotion of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) friendly products and services. Adbard had the blessings of Free Software Foundation(FSF) which described Adbard as “ethical alternative to ad networks that promote proprietary software”. Read the full article by FSF on Adbard .  read more »

I was reading this month’s Computer magazine and found an interesting article by Charles Rich entitled Building Task-Based User Interfaces with ANSI/CEA-2018 . It sounded like an interesting UI abstraction so I went after the standard to look through it. And that’s when I was reminded of something: ANSI/CEA-2018 is one of those paid standards. If I want to read anything beyond the index of the standard, I have to pay $85.00 (or $63.75 if I was a member).

August 15th, 2009 Video Animation For CommercialHello. We are creating a web/commercial video and need an animation overlay at the end, lasting a few seconds. It will animate our current logo of a rabbit. He will need to take his hat off.Similar freelance jobsYoutube Branding CommercialLooking for a programmer that specializes in video productions for a Youtube video commercial.