Archive for March, 2013
Sunday, March 31st, 2013
Do you want a better open source email client ? Do you like Shotwell ? Yorba, the organisation behind Shotwell is looking for raising funds using crowd sourcing to create their next generation email application called Geary . Yorba’s goal is to create world class open source desktop application. Go help them if you think they are […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Living one year with Open Source
Berlin filmmaker Sam Muirhead is attempting to live a completely open source life for one year. Here’s why. The phrase ‘Open Source’, to many people, means ‘software you don’t have to pay for’—but really it’s so much more than that. It’s a way of thinking and working focused on transparency and collaborating with others. It’s […]
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Free online courses got better
Free online courseware is the best thing to have happened to learning. Many leading universities have started offering their courses online, mind you these are high quality content from leading institutions around the world. If you are motivated enough and have the time, there is no limit to your learning. onlinecourses.com makes it easy for […]
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Monday, March 11th, 2013
The Ubuntu guide for displaced Windows users
With Windows 8 pushing a “touch-first†desktop interface—Microsoft’s words, not ours—and with Valve’s Steam on Linux beginning to bring much-needed games and popular attention to the oft-overlooked operating system, there’s never been a better time to take Linux out for a test drive. Dipping your toes into the penguin-filled waters of the most popular open-source […]
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
A very open cloud
Businesses will double the amount of data they send across networks in the next few years. In the US, that means greater use of managed IP. Australia, though, like a lot of countries, is heading in the opposite direction. Cisco’s Virtual Networking Index provides sophisticated forecasts of how we will use networks over the next […]
