last month mozilla introduced ubiquity a keyboard interface for entering commands to your browser i covered it on our sister site ostatic. one of the big features of this command line for the web is that it can be extended by anyone who cares to write a ubiquity command and the list of such commands has been growing. among the things you can do that may be of web worker interest check whether a...
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googles web browser is now available for download at least if youre running a windows system with xp or vista. it is a lightweight fast and pretty stable browser although perhaps not as smashingly great as google had hoped. give it a go and tell us what you think or read up. there are a billion reviews and initial thoughts on google chrome out there the techmeme discussion is a good place as any ...
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over on ostatic sam dean has put googles opensource chrome browser available for windows users through the paces. deeming it clean and complete for a beta version dean dishes up an indepth review as promised chrome is focused on web applications and is tricked out to handle them nicely. while it may not be ready to act as a complete os just yet it lets you create shortcuts for your favorite web a...
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as if we didnt have enough to juggle google adds their own browser to the mix. google chrome was released a few hours ago for windows xp vista. a mac version is promised at some point. even though im a mac user it was worth a launch of vmware fusion to take the new kid on the block for a spin. initial impression nice start. im certainly not going to shout from the rooftops because google puts its...
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it was nearly a decade ago when a thenyoung marc andreessen the wunderboy founder of netscape communications first talked about the concept of the browser pushing the operating system into the background. with the release of googles experimental browser chrome we have come full circle. a lot has changed in the past 10 years. for one thing the cost of hardware and network infrastructure has declin...
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published at lxer few recent trends in storage have had as much momentum as network attached storage nas. a nas device can make a network more efficient and secure by supplying filebased data storage services to networked devices or it can be used for applications such as streaming media. freenas is free lightweight open source networkattached storage server software based on freebsd. you can fin...
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published at lxer in an interesting post on lifehacker the editors ask the readers why did you switch to linux the question drew quite a lot of interesting responses including some very offbeat reasons for why people made the switch. if youre under the impression that people switch solely for rebellious or fight the man reasons here are some of the more interesting responses and trends that they ...
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published at lxer xen.org which is behind the open source xen virtualization project is out with its new xen 3.3 engine. you can download it now and grab a pdf datasheet as well. xen 3.3 is faster and more scalable than previous versions and has better graphics capabilities. it targets more types of chipsetsfrom supercomputing to handheld chipsets. yes thats right handhelds. the new xen is smalle...
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ive written before about tweakguides.com and the truly extensive guides for customizing both windows xp and windows vista offered for free there. recently ive been diving into the free tweakguide for firefox that the site offers. its not as extensive as the windows tweakguides but if you spend a little time with it you can definitely make firefox more efficient for you. one of the great strengths...
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like many of us i spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. in clearing the cache i choose a theme pull out some of my favorites and share them with you here. mozilla labs shakes things up by introducing ubiquity om to comcast show us the meter the vista team gives us a comprehensive look at internet explorer 8 beta 2 still using firefox 2 ex...
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ok so you work on the web. thats a given. but what are you doing when you work on the web most likely interacting with some application on your computer. now drill down one more level are you using the mouse or other pointing device or the keyboard for most of that interaction theres the question that has the potential to bring users to blows. i was reminded of this debate by a blog entry from han...
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...new crop of open source crm packages available. i always mention sugarcrm or vtiger when talking about open source crm but there are a few bridesmaid that are worth mentioning. in this article from ostatic.com they highlight the features of concursive and splendidcrm. i havent had a chance to evaluate these 2 products as my web hosting company comes with sugarcrm and vtiger part of their easy apps...
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published at lxer intel is pushing forward with its moblin mobile internet and linux project focused on mobile and automotive internet devices based on atom processors. its latest move is acquiring openedhand which provides software development and consulting services in addition to maintaining several ongoing projects focused on mobile and embedded linux. openedhands team maintains and contribut...
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if you and web workers you collaborate with have been considering using customer relationship management crm software it makes sense to look not just at proprietary solutionis such as salesforce.com but at open source solutions. open source crm solutions are now very competitive with proprietary alternatives. over on the ostatic blog we just rounded up some good tools to consider. if youre unfami...
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published at lxer this post from matt asay on whether open source needs consolidation asks an interesting question and some of the comments that came in on it were interesting. this comment caught my eye no. open source does not need consolidation. open source needs product managers. product managers of course drive improvements in commercial and proprietary software products and listen carefully...
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the other day we covered the winners in this years extend firefox contest which is mozillas annual effort to recognize the best extensions for the firefox browser. in addition to the new ideas that won though mozilla has also recognized a couple of strong updates to wellknown firefox extensions. two of them can be very handy for web workers. read it later is a quick way to save web pages of inter...
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i came across the ostatic free hosting service that provide solaris glassfish java container mysql. they offer now you can get free web hosting on cloud computing environment free of charge for up to 12 months. the catch accumulate 400 points for participating on the site. a rather novel approach you get 100 points for registering but then only 515 points per task. the equates to approximate...
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published at lxer a major problem with the officially distributed version of perl on red hat enterprise linux has led to a firestorm of complaints among developers. the problem which also manifests itself on some versions of the fedora and centos linux distributions means that some programs will take more than 100 yes one hundred times longer to execute under red hat than other distributions. a r...
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i was reading this ostatic interview with ken drachnik marketing manager for open source software infrastructure products at sun and a cofounder of glassfish suns opensource application server and it made me wonder if its time for some consolidation in the opensource stack. yes im the one who argues against consolidation in enterprise software but another part of me wonders why we spend time rein...
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published at lxer have you ever heard of the fiduciary licence agreement the fla no its not an alterative to other free and open source license agreements that youre probably already familiar with like the gpl mozilla license and bsd license. rather its an adjunct to any copyleft license designed to help ensure the longterm survivability of free software projects. with the announcement last week...
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published at lxer all of the libraries in the world cant take away from the fact that javascript has long been seen as something of a slowpoke. this didnt matter much when javascript applications were several dozen lines long. but when your word processor photo editor or photosharing application is written in javascript you really want to be sure that the language is running at top speed. read m...
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earth2tech 10 things to know about joe biden clean energy. newteevee yes virginia there are good web series. newteevee outsidelands rocked sf this weekend. we go behinds the scene. jkontherun the state of palm turn out the lights. ostatic why free isnt enough. newteevee station barely political not just obama girl anymore.......
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earth2tech 10 things to know about joe biden clean energy. newteevee yes virginia there are good web series. newteevee outsidelands rocked sf this weekend. we go behinds the scene. jkontherun the state of palm turn out the lights. ostatic why free isnt enough. newteevee station barely political not just obama girl anymore.......
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published at lxer it wasnt that long ago that it was impossible to find good free open source tools for working with and viewing video. now that video runs rampant on the web though there are a whole lot of applications worth getting even if youre currently happy with your video and encoding tools. here are eight good applications to try. read more.........
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