Entries tagged with “open source” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

OpenOffice.org 3 Release Candidate 3 is available. So, I revisited OOo to see how it looks today (I commented on its Beta release back in May).

I sorted through the various versions of the GIMP bitmap editor available for the Mac last week. This week, I report on what I found after playing with GIMP on my slightly underpowered Macbook. The results were good. In fact, very good IMHO.

Guitarist and programmer Lucas Gonze made an interesting observation about my new experimental Web audio player. Although it's clunky compared to his work, he focused instead on its "cool new ideas" and how they evolved.

I wanted to install a free (Open Source if possible) image editor on my MacBook. After looking around, I returned to look at GIMP whose multi-window interface always bothered me. Here's what I found about GIMP for Mac OS X 10.5.

The R Project for Statistical Computing is a free multi-platform Open Source statistical and graphical programming platform. It provides a Mac friendly R Console for all the statistical and graphical work you can throw at it. Version 2.7.1 was released earlier this week.

Here's what I looked at last week: Great Blender generated animation - Big Buck Bunny, Rescue Kit for Mac OS X Lite (?), Zoho Creator pricing, Google spreadsheet vs. Google Gears, and I'm tech tweeting.

Here's what I looked at last week: Disqus, TwitPic, Blender, and Tabs/Ajax vs. browser memory management.

Here's what I looked at last week: My City: Facebook Silverlight App/Game, Snackr: Adobe AIR based RSS Scrolling Ticker, Google vidnik: Record with iSight Then Post to YouTube, and Google Search Blacklisting Mystery.

Here's what I looked at last week: Transmission BitTorrent client, Microsoft Live Search, Yahoo and McAfee partner for web security, NetBeans IDE 6.1.

Summary: Just NeverBall (game) and Google Docs Offline Spreadsheet and Presentation Viewing summarized week.

Microsoft Live Mesh Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:25:17 read more Coming Soon: Login to Zoho with Your Google ID Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:19:31 I'm still trying to understand why this is reported on CNet but not mentioned anywhere in Zoho's official blog... Zoho to integrate with Google sign-on However, assuming this is true, that will be one less login/password...

Here's what I looked at last week: Google Docs Offline Access, coconutBattery, OpenDNS vs. T-Mobile Hotspots, and Adobe Media Player.

I started wondering how well my MacBook's battery was holding up after two years of use. After using coconutBattery to find that answer, I began wondering about other freeware and Open Source utilities to learn about temperature, motion, and UPS levels in a Mac. Here's what I found...

You don't have to spend a lot of money to build a useful Mac software library. Here's a list of some of my favorite freeware and Open Source software for the Mac.

Crucial Mac RAM Scanner, Google Presentations saves to PowerPoint files, Valleywag condenses Time magazine's top 25 blogs (and makes it easier for us to quickly click to see for ourselves).

Here's what I looked at last week: The Microsoft Mac Remote Desktop Client beta hasn't really expired, received my Arduino Diecimila microcontroller, Google Apps Email Uploader: Import Messages and Contacts from Outlook and Thunderbird, and Google Docs Offline with Google Gears?

Here's the F/FOSS-Web Stuff I looked at last week: iSquint 1.5.2 video file converter, Adobe PhotoShop Express, Tasko Web Outline and Task Manager (thumbs up for all of them).

OpenDNS works around my Leopard DNS problems. Is Safari 3.1 really that much faster? When did the right click start doing stuff in Google Docs document list?

Here's what I looked at last week: TrueCrypt 5.1 update, ActiveState Komodo Edit goes Open Source, UNdata (United Nations Data site)

TrueCrypt 5.1 lets you encrypt and secure files and folders very easily and quickly. The encrypted data can also be used on Linux and Microsoft Windows computers with TrueCrypt on it. Since it only became available for Mac OS X this year, I thought I'd provide a brief introduction to this amazing free Open Source encryption tool.