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Creating Vidcasts

18 June 2007, Monday 7:05 P GMT-06
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Man, Can't Microsoft Catch A Break?

16 March 2007, Friday 12:26 P GMT-06

Viacom, Google andYou Tube, Oh My!

16 March 2007, Friday 12:25 P GMT-06

Switch to digital TV to start in October

16 March 2007, Friday 7:46 A GMT-06

Is the Ice Ready? No, Its Still To Hot To Use...

16 March 2007, Friday 7:43 A GMT-06

MIT Entire Curriculum At disposal of e-learners

6 March 2007, Tuesday 11:52 A GMT-06

A cure for e-mail attention disorder?

2 March 2007, Friday 12:51 A GMT-06
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Windows-on-Mac software gets virtualization update

1 March 2007, Thursday 5:08 A GMT-06

EnterpriseDB is/n't Open Source

1 March 2007, Thursday 3:37 A GMT-06

BitTorrent download portal debuts

27 February 2007, Tuesday 9:05 A GMT-06

$45b TXU buyout

27 February 2007, Tuesday 9:02 A GMT-06

iPhone Competitors Got The Touch

26 February 2007, Monday 3:43 A GMT-06
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HTC - Smart Mobility

25 February 2007, Sunday 4:22 A GMT-06

Hard to find 1-800 numbers

23 February 2007, Friday 8:35 A GMT-06

Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software

21 February 2007, Wednesday 3:10 A GMT-06

Vista at the tipping point, Err Dipping Point?

11 February 2007, Sunday 11:11 A GMT-06
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PostgreSQL Open Source And Persistence

3 February 2007, Saturday 10:32 P GMT-06

Blackboard Pledges No Patent Blocks

3 February 2007, Saturday 10:28 P GMT-06

UVU

5 January 2007, Friday 11:58 P GMT-06

Open-source IP PBX software appliance"

4 January 2007, Thursday 3:44 A GMT-06

Asterisk an under-appreciated Open Source Success Story

4 January 2007, Thursday 3:43 A GMT-06

Open Source AJAX Tooling

4 January 2007, Thursday 3:41 A GMT-06

Google MAIL API Secuirty Alert

1 January 2007, Monday 7:37 P GMT-06
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United States Patent Application: 0060288329

26 December 2006, Tuesday 4:00 A GMT-06

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New Design: RedTie by alexisc22

24 May 2009, Sunday
alexisc22's "RedTie" was just added to OSWD! It is white and red and validates XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

New Design: Simple Beauty by dboy

24 May 2009, Sunday
dboy's "Simple Beauty" was just added to OSWD! It is white and gray and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict.

New Design: Rounded_2 by jedignork

24 May 2009, Sunday
jedignork's "Rounded_2" was just added to OSWD! It is blue and white and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict.

New Design: Delicious Fruit by Dieter

24 May 2009, Sunday
Dieter's "Delicious Fruit" was just added to OSWD! It is yellow and green and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict.

New Design: Touching by timmytima

24 May 2009, Sunday
timmytima's "Touching" was just added to OSWD! It is white and black and validates XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

New Design: BlackandGreen by shipping_guy

24 May 2009, Sunday
shipping_guy's "BlackandGreen" was just added to OSWD! It is orange and green and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict.

New Design: Sundark by rotw

24 May 2009, Sunday
rotw's "Sundark" was just added to OSWD! It is black and yellow and validates XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

New Design: Cash by alexisc22

24 May 2009, Sunday
alexisc22's "Cash" was just added to OSWD! It is green and gray and validates XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

New Design: Greeny blu by heartlessg

24 May 2009, Sunday
heartlessg's "Greeny blu" was just added to OSWD! It is black and blue and validates XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

New Design: Cloudy Water Sports by boilers

24 May 2009, Sunday
boilers's "Cloudy Water Sports" was just added to OSWD! It is gray and blue and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict.

This week at LWN: On GNOME and its Foundation: an interview with Luis Villa

24 May 2009, Sunday
LWN recently posted a brief article on the GNOME Foundation's plea for support to help it get through a difficult year. Some of the comments on that news questioned the role of the foundation and its

Poseidon USB Stack Bounty Reached: Open Source, AROS Port

24 May 2009, Sunday
Another important bounty quota has been reached in the Power2People website, and this time the result comes from a common effort of the whole Amiga/Morphos/AROS Community. The result of this bounty be

Where to buy Preinstalled Linux Laptop/Desktop

24 May 2009, Sunday
Installing any OS can still sometimes be a tedious task and one that scares the wits out of the average computer user. And, it’s just more fun to buy a computer with Linux already on it and not have t

Microsoft and ODF: Bad for Everyone

24 May 2009, Sunday
Microsoft finally agreed to implement ODF support in Microsoft Office, but they didn't do it quite right, hurting both Microsoft and the ODF specification.

Linux MMORPG Game Engine Sees Major Update

23 May 2009, Saturday
Regnum Online, a Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game that has a native Linux client offered by its developers (NGD Studios), has received a major overhaul. Regnum Online is one of the very

Discovery: The Ultimate Linux Device - The Kickfire Appliance

23 May 2009, Saturday
Discover the Kickfire appliance--if this isn't the ultimate Linux device, one might not exist.

Some Funny Linux/Computer Pictures

23 May 2009, Saturday
More funny pictures from the "world wide interweb" - I think that's what Mr. Monk calls it ;)

The Acer Debacle - Closing the Chapter

23 May 2009, Saturday
Michelle Minkin, a friend of this effort and an all-around nice lady; suggested that we auction off the opportunity to destroy these computers. We were almost ready to start soliciting the community f

Cisco Settles, But Where From Here?

23 May 2009, Saturday
Until September 20, 2007, nobody had ever sued anybody for violating the General Public License (GPL) — not a single company, project, or individual developer in the license's then-eighteen

OpenBSD 4.5 update: Reinstall goes quickly, X still in trouble; still running Ubuntu 8.04

23 May 2009, Saturday
I'll keep this quick. I followed the advice of Nathan from OpenBSD101 and replaced my upgraded OpenBSD 4.5 installation with an entirely new, reinstalled system. That took all of 10 minutes. I followe

Desperation, Scare Tactics, and Happy Memorial Day!

23 May 2009, Saturday
I love to poke fun at tech vendors who continually boast of their innovation, when in fact they're scared to death of real innovation, if they could even recognize it. Today I poke fun at the anti-mal

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Textmate Comment Shortkeys!

20 November 2009, Friday 1:27 P GMT-06
I've been using Textmate, for as long as I can remember. However, comment blocking, toggling on and off etc is so embedded in my "TEXTMATE" typing I catch myself attempting to use it in others editors all the time. Its become second nature to me.

GoogleWave: In Theory It Seems To Be A Great Idea; In Practice Google Launched 1000 Ideas

9 November 2009, Monday 10:45 P GMT-06
I recently have been working with GoogleWave and as fascinating as it seems in practice it appears to be very hard to manage.  Waves that are public are subject to all Wavers input.  Now this is not a bad thing, the more participa

Linux Terminal Short Cut Keys!

4 November 2009, Wednesday 4:44 P GMT-06
linux keystrokes shortcuts command line emacs editing keys

OS X : Lock your DOCK and Stop Accidental Removal of Your Docked Apps

1 October 2009, Thursday 7:08 A GMT-06
Ever mishap with your mouse crusing through your desktop click, rub, stumble and chatter across the dock whilst the click persists to holding on to the DOCKED app ICON on the way of your fumbling mishap and BAM! Off goes your DOCK app...

TOO MANY GMAIL FILTERS: Reduce them with logic!!

18 May 2009, Monday 9:17 A GMT-06
If you have more than 2 GMAIL filters that assign an email message to one specific label than this solution is for you!

Unix Shells : Differences a quick look!

4 May 2009, Monday 2:02 P GMT-06
Shell features Do you know at a glance the differences from the Korn Shell to the BASH shell? This table below lists most features

Searchme.com Not A Tool But A Gimmick

3 March 2009, Tuesday 5:31 P GMT-06
Searchme.com has been around for a while, "The Great Kate Delaney" actually called to tell me about the tool as she interviewed the CEO. I remember clearly as my browser rendered the flash heavy homepage Kate's excitement in her voice...

The Treacherous Debauchery of Local Business and Their Website Requirements

6 February 2009, Friday 5:55 P GMT-06
Local business seems always seems to have issues with the Internet. How to use it? How to market with it? How to apply it to their business? The Internet's capabilities are vast and the opportunities are enormous.

ooVoo Smokes TalkFusion

16 December 2008, Tuesday 8:55 A GMT-06
First off, ooVoo is not just video email, its video conferencing, contact manager and its VOIP.  You can call iland lines, nationaly and internationaly.

Implement Talk Fusion Videos on your website

30 September 2008, Tuesday 1:35 A GMT-06
The single most popular way to implement a Talk Fusion video on your websits is using HTML's IFRAME tag.

If You Due Anything In Your Life Shake Your Tree

22 August 2008, Friday 10:54 P GMT-06
Open source is about shaking your own tree and sharing your gifts with other. By sharing your talents, thoughts and efforts the effect on the whole is better for the whole. Individually we benefit 10 fold for anyone of that gives a little effort.

Windows RARS and OSX Answers

8 August 2008, Friday 2:12 P GMT-06
From time to time, my clients end me RAR files and I have to UNRAR the file.I use STUFF Expander but recently found The Unarchiver tool for OSX which does a nice job.   Nothing exciting for an archinver just awareness of the tool &nb

GMail, POP, IMAP, Configuration and Not A Word about Captcha!

16 July 2008, Wednesday 8:04 A GMT-06
I have installed POP GMAIL on a host of email clients from Thunderbird to Outlook Express and Eudora. Further, in the past year I have assisted iPhone owners and Apple Mail clients with Google's IMAP implementation.

FFMPEG + SNOW = Video Audio Converter and A WAVELET-BASED CODEC

15 July 2008, Tuesday 10:15 A GMT-06
It's over and out for CODEC and Opensource. With the Micael Niedermayer's video codec coined SNOW the technology is supported, available and ready for use.

OS X Finder : How to Reveal Hidden Files in Finder

13 July 2008, Sunday 9:56 A GMT-06
You ever need to know what the hidden files are in a certain directory? Usually, going to the terminal one could easily view and edit the hidden files, ie: .htacess. However, what if you wanted to grab a directory and move it to an FTP client

OpenSource Router? What has Netgear Got Themselves into?

3 July 2008, Thursday 12:01 A GMT-06
Netgear launched an OpenRouter plain white NetGear-ish like router.1 The idea is simple, the user has an option to implement firmware applications.  The MyOpenRouter site kicked this off and provides access to the firmware applications. DD-WR

FCC Poses Free Internet For The Public: What's the Catch?

25 June 2008, Wednesday 7:00 P GMT-06
Well the delivery is Wireless Broadband for free!!  No Taxes?  No Cost?  What's the catch, well no catch.....Really, the FCC wants to offer you, John P. Public free wireless internet.  Offering to auction off the available wir

Delete Cookies in IE or Firefox

6 June 2008, Friday 7:43 A GMT-06
From time to time browsers and servers get a little confused and cookies become out of sorts leaving the user logging into a website but not really getting the user to the expected pages. 

When Your MAC Hangs Get Access from the Keyboard?

11 April 2008, Friday 11:21 A GMT-06
How does one initiate a CTL=ALT-DEL from a MAC. Four intersting series of keystrokes you can use to battle stalled apps, MACs and the dreaded reboot.

THE 2008 ENTOURAGE Challenge: Import OS X's Address Book

1 April 2008, Tuesday 12:49 P GMT-06
You figure in 2008 a simple import of a CSV file would not be difficult for Microsoft.  Well, think again.  I do use apple mail for some of my email addresses, but for work, I gave up fighting the battle and just use Entourage.

Sudo Gem Install Mysql - On OS X With Proper Parameters

27 March 2008, Thursday 7:06 A GMT-06
I had to install, fresh, Ruby On Rails this evening.  I ran into a little road bump when issuing sudo gem install mysql on OS X.The script prints out to the terminal:! sudo gem install mysqlSelect which gem to install for your platform (i68

Remind Me For Free

25 March 2008, Tuesday 8:18 A GMT-06
An open source tool. http://yourli.st is a a simple open source based tool that allows one to create on the fly an email reminder from any browser on the net.

Determine MYSQL Version From the Command Line

28 February 2008, Thursday 2:02 P GMT-06
As simple as it is sometimes one forgets and here it is for a quick hit that really works.

UNAME : YOUSYSTEM : YOUDETAILS

19 February 2008, Tuesday 5:21 P GMT-06
uname, it's your friend baby!

Hollywood Still in The Mindset of "The Talkies": Apple Denies Screen Capture Whilst the DVD Player Is Active

30 January 2008, Wednesday 5:51 P GMT-06
I was working whilst watching a DVD and attempted to capture a BROWSER Windows via OSX's key sequence screen capture. I had the distinct pleasure of OSX's Denial of a Screen Capture Whilst the DVDPlayer was running.