open source

Gnomie John Connors writes:
Hello Chris,
I am a student and have been looking for an application with which to schedule my schoolwork. Just recently my friend Ian sent me a message about this Open Source app called Schoolhouse 2. I found it to be extremely helpful — especially with long term […]

Gnomie Chris writes:
I watch your show all the time on Apple TV; keep up the good work!
I wanted to let you know that, since you’ve been reporting on Open Source everything, there’s one thing I’ve yet to see you report on, and that is an Open Source 3D gaming environment! I know you’re into games, […]

Gnomie Tomek Chrzczonowicz writes:
Hey Chris,
In one of your latest videos you briefly discussed Google Android — well, there is also a completely open development platform along with a smartphone called Neo FreeRunner to be released hopefully by the end of this year. That’s basically the smartphone I’m looking forward to buying as I’m tired of […]

Blender is the Open Source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation, and playback. It is available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
[8.7M] [Win98/ME/2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]

Kantaris can play almost anything you can throw at it: AVI (DivX, Xvid, H264), MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, FLV, MP3, WMA, and OGG files. It can also play DVDs and audio CDs. The player also displays beautiful visualizations for music.
Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from VideoLan Client (VLC) […]

DJ Gnomie Cyrus writes:
Hello Chris,
I’m an aspiring DJ (currently I do it as a hobby). I love Open Source, and find that the quality is often higher than that found with a lot of proprietary software. Oh, and it’s free! I put together a digital “toolbox” of such stuff I find useful for Windows in […]

MediaCoder is an Open Source universal audio/video batch converter that puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the Open Source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of coding among different audio/video formats.
With many extra features and expandable architecture, MediaCoder is more than a GUI of a bunch of command line tools.
[20.54M] […]

Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox, VLC Player, and SQLite. Songbird is Open Source and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions. Version 0.5 includes new device API with initial MTP device support add-on, improved shuffle algorithm, extensible Library Views, improved RSS playlists support, and other bug-fixes.
This is technically a beta version, […]

To most of us, Google seems to be an unbeatable powerhouse, and even though they have their hands in a lot of projects at one time, their search engine is still their bread and butter. Not only is it extremely useful, but it’s also just as much a part of pop culture as anything else […]