Posts Tagged: Open Source Software
OpenStomp - The Open-Source Guitar Effects Pedal. Finally, my inner-geek and inner-rock-star can enjoy something together. How long until I can play Quake on a Stratocaster?
Posted by on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 in - 1 comment
The Long Road to Firefox 3
Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2008 in - 3 comments
With the release of Firefox 3 last month, the Mozilla project, corporation, community, and the open-source software world in general have a great achievement on their collective hands. • My involvement with Mozilla began with a weblog post in October of 2003, over a year before the initial …
Here’s a code-swarm visualization of the Swat open-source project I work on.
Posted by on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 in
If you're running Firefox 3, enter about:robots into the location bar and enjoy. Nerd.
Posted by on Friday, June 20, 2008 in
Silkscreen Under the Open Font License
Posted by on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 in - 3 comments
Jason Kottke has released his pixel-font, Silkscreen, under the Open Font License. This means it can be included in most open-source software distributions by default. • Thanks, Jason.
Inconsolata: Quality Free and Open Font for Programmers
Posted by on Sunday, September 9, 2007 in - 10 comments
If you spend a significant amount of time working with any type of scripting, code, or markup, then you’re probably looking at a monospace (fixed-width for each character) font. • The quality of these fonts varies, though the defaults that ship with Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista are …
Solitaire: The End of Desktop Applications
Posted by on Monday, August 20, 2007 in - 2 comments
The web-based version of Solitaire at WorldOfSolitaire.com is as smooth and playable as the version included in Windows or Gnome by default. This is the end of desktop software - Solitaire was the final frontier. • Note that it is not built with Flash, but Javascript, CSS, HTML, via YUI.
“This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons”
Posted by on Saturday, July 28, 2007 in - 7 comments
Tonight I got home from a movie (Everything’s Gone Green - good movie) and headed to the iTunes Store to listen to some previews from the soundtrack. I was greeted by this message: • I suspect this is because I have used SharpMusique, an unauthorized Linux-based client for the iTunes Store (that …
Tango Icons for Thunderbird 2
Posted by on Thursday, June 7, 2007 in - 1 comment
With help from Nico Kaiser, the Tango icon theme has been released for Thunderbird 2. Looks great.
Word is like a drug
Posted by on Sunday, April 29, 2007 in - 4 comments
An interesting quote from an article about the legal battles surrounding government adoption of open document formats in the US: • “ • “Microsoft sees what’s coming. Things like Word and Excel are sort of like a drug now getting ready to go generic.” • — Florida Rep. Ed Homan • ” • Of …