If you’re working on a localization project and would like to have the translation work done online, Pootleis currently the best option I found. Having an online translation platform is a great option for collaborative work since your team of translators can work from different parts of the world simultaneously.
Pootle has a nice user rights management feature allowing you to set the responsibilities of each team member in your project:
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In the past, to run online surveys I used GoogleDocs and SurveyMonkey. One was a paid service and the other too minimalistic. LimeSurveythough is a very nice open source platform to run complex online surveys however you choose.
The list of features is quite incredible, the best ones I found were the export / import format options (including SPSS, CSV, PDF, and .xls); large possibly of question types; integration of pictures and movies in a survey; and plenty of graphics options for you to analyze results inside the platform.
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Forgot your Windows login password? You can recover it easily with Ophcrack.
You can run Ophcrack through a live CD and have your passwords in no time. Or download the software to run on different platforms, even running in Windows itself if you have access to another user’s account.
Once downloaded, the software is incredibly easy to use and will recover the passwords of all users in your Windows installation, Windows XP or Vista.
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The open source based microblogging platform identi.cahas recently added some cool new features:
hip new design giving the platform a fresher look; cloud tags for individual micro-bloggers; and the best of all, groups! You can create groups, join existing ones and write posts inside groups writing “!” in front of the group name. Adding groups functionality is a nice feature, inspired (maybe?) in FriendFeed’s rooms. People with similar interests can discuss topics together and you’ll always receive posts of the groups you’re connected to.
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Don’t think Visio is the only application out there to create diagrams and workflows, Dia is an excellent alternative!
With Dia you can easily create relationship diagrams and with the several object styles it has, you’re able to do some more technical work such as UML diagrams, flowcharts, and chronograms. Although the default format you can save your files will be .dia, there is an excellent export tool for several formarts including svg, png, eps, jpg, and bmp.
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For those (like me) who are interested on using rsync but are command line inexperienced, finding a GUI is a lifesaver.
Grsync can make sure you use rsync without the terminal. The developers list several features such as:
you can easily run the most common rsync tasks, more complex tasks can still be done but with command line tweaking; Saves multiple settings with customized names; performs simulations or normal executions; print rsync output to a log or a separate file; operation pause.
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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; Gwibber is pretty much the only way I’m using Twitter nowadays since I ditched Twihrl.
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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 mobblerit was.
Mobbler works like a charm! It recognizes and scrobbles songs being played by the phone’s native media player, plus I get all of the cool Last.fm features such as:
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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 we speak I’m converting these files to .ogv with ffmpeg. Linux command line work is involved but just writing one very simple line:
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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 OggPlayto the rescue, I was able to solve the issue. OggPlay can play.ogg, .oga, .flac (haven’t tested it myself yet), and .
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