Open Source

This entry is about a series of open source applications that I have been watching, but have had no time to try. In fact, the company that I work for would not have anything to do with these apps because they are open source, and the company management would not even consider using free, or [...]

Adeona from University of Washington provides an open source, free and completely non-proprietary way to track your stolen laptop. No 3rd party servers are required, only a small client needs to be installed on the laptop !!  The software is available for Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux!  Only the Mac OS X version [...]

Warning Alpha software ahead! This is not for the faint of heart!  If you ever wanted to record TV or shows on your computer, but were unable to set aside a computer to run Linux, then have I got news for you! Myth TV is coming to Windows.  They have used the MinGW envrionment to [...]

This entry is about an open source tool, that some friends of mine would have appreciated !  These friends were writing a play, a book, and what they hoped to be the great American novel.  This software StoryBook is the open source equivalent of an outliner for story or play writing.  This software provides facilities [...]

This entry is about VirtualBox! This is open source virtual systems on a single computer!  If you have no idea what I am talking about then you don’t need this software!  Instead I suggest SandBoxie, which is not Open Source, and costs $30 for a lifetime personal license.  For the rest of my audience that [...]

This entry is about a program (Chandler) that I am currently moving all my notes, contacts, and some net collaboration all in one!  This app works on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.  The developers are working on French, German, Finnish, and other languages.  This software is currently in a release 1.0, but is still [...]

MediaPortal is open source software that can be downloaded and will allow you to record your shows on the computers hard drive and watch them later. The list of supported cards that are recommended includes the Fire DTV, Floppy DTV, and LifeView FlyTV. The Nice thing about using the Fly TV is the [...]

This entry is about a system that I pioneered and setup in my current work company. This is CuteFlow, which automates, and nearly makes brain dead the circulation of electronic documents from originator, through various departments, and various people back to you. First disclaimer ! This is written in PHP, and so [...]

I bring this to your attention, not because I think you should consider using this Open Source Tax Solver but because I just find it very interesting that while the US government wants our money, these guys are solving the equations according to the forms that the government publishes. This app will also provide [...]

This entry is about another mathematically oriented software package, that also has lots of other capabilities. I earlier write about FreeMat a MatLab workalike. SciLab has some of those capabilities, like optimization, Least Squares Regression, modeling of discrete systems, but SciLab can also acquire data from GPIB instruments, ADwin Real-Time and Data-Acquisition (DAQ), serial [...]

This entry is about a suite of audio research, analysis, and transform software that is brought to you by the good people of Barcelona Spain and Santa Barbara, California. But no need to worry for us ugly americans their website, and software are in English. The software contains several tools that will allow the [...]

This post will contain several tools that I use on occasion. On of my hobbies is taking pictures, mostly of animals.bugs and unusual events that occur around me. I use a digital camera with a 64 MB Secure Digital Card. The camera I use is not important, since I will be upgrading [...]

Can you say steganography ? This has nothing to do with the possibly more well know stegosaurus, you remember the dinosaur with all the plates on it’s back that acted like heat radiators ? This is all about hiding a message inside another larger and possibly meaningless message. In this case the [...]

This very short entry into this blog is because I have neglected to mention this wonderful article on Crave.
This is a site that is often digg’ed that I simply neglected to mention until I was cleaning out my e-mail closets
This site gives you their Top Ten Open Source alternatives to commercial applications. For [...]

This entry is not really open source, but since so many people including myself use Firefox, and Thunderbird then you should all know about MozBackup. I once made the mistake of overwriting my boot partition, thinking that all my Thunderbird, and Firefox bookmarks, and e-mails would be safe. Boy was I wrong !!!! [...]

This night’s entry is about a previously commercial application whose developer just stopped, and then the project was picked up by a community and made into an open source (LGPL) project. This application can be found around the web at several locations, so you can start by looking here and here. Both of [...]