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Open Source phone anyone?

July 29th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Open Source development has brought the world a stable operating system, reliable web server and thousands of free and very useful programs and scripts. Will it bring us the next great phone?
Last July 9, OpenMoko started selling from their website the Neo 1973 phone, which runs the company’s eponymous open source mobile software package. This [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile · Open source · free software · linux

Playing with fire? Painting with fire!

July 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Or snazzy Ubuntu Linux with AWN dock and Compiz-Fusion
Beryl, the compositing window manager I’ve been using since I migrated to Ubuntu Linux in April, is now merging with the project it forked from, Compiz. The new project is called Compiz-Fusion and the initial work is great, a few notches above Beryl in some aspects.
RING [...]

Tags: Highlights · Open source · free software · linux

New Aptana IDE version makes Linux installation easy

June 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments

I use Aptana whenever I have to edit a web template or convert one to a WordPress theme. Before I found Aptana, I used Dreamweaver. I wrote a post earlier on how to use Dreamweaver to edit edit WordPress themes.
EDITING WITH APTANA. Porting an open source web template into a WordPress theme using Aptana. [...]

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Installing Photoshop on Ubuntu Linux

May 27th, 2007 · 22 Comments

Now, what do I do? That was the first thought that formed in my mind when I first opened Gimp about 5 or 6 six years ago in an Internet cafe on F. Ramos St. in Cebu City.
I was given the grand tour on Linux and open source software by Mike Schmeisser, a chain-smoking German [...]

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Screencasting in Ubuntu

May 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments

I’ve done my first screencast in Ubuntu using gtk-record My Desktop, a tool that records desktop sessions in Linux. I’ve long wanted to do screencasts in Ubuntu ever since I installed Feisty Fawn or the 7.04 release but I haven’t been successful in my initial attempts.
I first tried capturing desktop sessions into movie files using [...]

Tags: Open source · PC · free software

Giving people Ubuntu envy

April 19th, 2007 · 13 Comments

While preparing for my presentation to the staff of the Sun.Star website last week, I was a bit worried whether Ubuntu Feisty Fawn would detect and work with the office’s LCD projector.
I’m a stickler for backups. I finished my OpenOffice Impress presentation in the laptop and then converted it into a PowerPoint file. I then [...]

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