Dropbox: Painless and Free Backup
If you use several computers, sharing files between them is a pain but Dropbox takes the pain away--for free.
Kernel prepatch 2.6.36-rc3
The 2.6.36-rc3 kernel prepatch is out. "Nothing in particular stands out that I can recall. As usual, it's mostly driver updates (65%), of which a large piece (by line count) is just the removal of a staging driver that isn't really ready nor making any progress. But on the 'somewhat...
An overdue update from the Diaspora team
The Diaspora team has put out an update on their progress in creating a "privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network". The project raised a fairly large sum of money to fund its efforts, and now it is reporting back. "We are spending a good chunk of time concentrating on building...
H.264 Will Be Royalty Free For Internet Video Forever, Mozilla Still Doesn't Care
MPEG LA, the group who who licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever. But Mozilla thinks that the better part of forever could belong to Google's WebM format.
Mozilla fires up three new APIs in Jetpack SDK 0.7
Three new APIs in Mozilla's Jetpack SDK include access to the system clipboard, better in page modal dialogs and toast style notifications...
Mozilla Labs experiments with Git
Mozilla has announced that, in addition to being available in a publicly accessible mercurial instance, its Mozilla Labs projects and experiments will now be mirrored on the GitHub project hosting service...
digiKam 1.4.0 released
The digiKam project has released the latest update for its open source advanced digital photo management application, adding a new "Remove Doubles" modifier and addressing several bugs found in the previous version...
Mozilla Rolls Out 'Tab Candy' for Firefox 4
New tab feature, formally released as Firefox Panorama, will enable users to organize and synchronize their Web activities in novel ways on the popular open source browser.
2 Task Manager Apps: Choose the Features You Can Live Without
Today, if you're in need of a task manager application, you're looking at a category filled -- perhaps even overfilled -- with options. If you carry a smartphone, you probably have a to-do list app in your pocket already.
Google's 6th Summer of Code wraps up
Google has officially announced the end to its sixth annual Google Sumer of Code (GSoC) event in which more than 2,000 mentors and over 1,000 students from almost 70 countries participated to improve the code bases of 150 open source projects.
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