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.
Inkscape 0.48 lined up and released
The open source scalable vector editor gets an update with multi-path editing and an improved text tool...
Rails 3.0 approaches with RC2
The Ruby on Rails developers have issued the second release candidate for version 3.0 of their open source web framework, noting that the final version of Rails 3.0 should arrive "this week"...
Centralized Logging with a Web Interface
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a web interface to the logs on your central log server? Well, dream no more because this one is a reality thanks to LogAnalyzer (aka phplogcon). Let's take a look at how to setup both it and its suggested syslog variant, rsyslog, on...
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