As the last post of the year I wanted to sum up a short list of the best open source projects I met in 2008. Several from the list were created way before, but only got used by yours truly this year. Without further delay: Identi.ca which I’m now using way more often than Twitter; [...]
Read more →I’m a big Last.fm enthusiast (although it isn’t open source) so I try to install a scrobbler on every single media player I use. It took a bit of time for me to find a Symbian Last.fm client and mobbler it was. Mobbler works like a charm! It recognizes and scrobbles songs being played by [...]
Read more →Over these past 2 days I recorded some videos on my Symbian cell phone that I wanted to share with my family back home. Problem is that the videos are saved in .mp4 format, which gave me some problems when trying to edit them (video editors I tried to use didn’t support mp4). So, as [...]
Read more →As an open source fan, I make my audio CDs portable in .ogg (.oga) format. Problem is that unfortunately .ogg isn’t as popular as it should be right now so sometimes it can be difficult to find a decent player, which is exactly what happened with my new Symbian cell phone. Symbian OggPlay to the [...]
Read more →I got a new phone and was terrified about the manual work that would be needed to sync all of my contact details. But then I thought, we’re in 2008 so there must be an open source way of doing this!! Funambol MobileWe did the trick perfectly! Funambol allows syncing over the air emails, contacts, [...]
Read more →I’ve seen countless times websites that would allow me to dig through my GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, contact list to invite friends over. A pretty neat piece of code that can help a website to grow its userbase quite well. Open Inviter is the open source bit of code that can allow users to install this [...]
Read more →If you’re working with a team of people to build a software, a website, or a plain and simple group project, Bugzilla is a very good task management web based tool. I’ve used in the past the commercial application JIRA which in some ways resembles Trac, so my familiarity with Bugzilla is pretty recent. This [...]
Read more →My favorite cross-platform music manager Songbird is now on its 1.0 release!! I’ve written about Songbird before and it is fantastic to report that finally the first full release is available. Why do I like Songbird so much? it is open source; cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS X) built on top of the same framework as [...]
Read more →I’ve just started using Mozilla’s Ubiquity. What is Ubiquity? Part of Mozilla Labs, this is a Firefox add-on to expand the power of your browser. It acts much like Gnome Do or Launchy, but inside the browser. Say you are browsing a web page and want to send a piece of text you found to [...]
Read more →Months ago I used Adobe Air based Twhirl to use Twitter on my Linux machine. However, as an open source enthusiast this application just didn’t fit well in the list of programs I used. So, after searching around once more I found Gwibber, written in Python and GTK. With it you can attach your Twitter [...]
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