The popular and really powerful media player VLC is ten years old! I warmly congratulate the team for the steady development of the VLC player on all of these years. VLC was and is next to the Mozilla browsers, a faithful companion on all my systems. Thanks to VLC I can play without a lot of codecs and proprietary frickeling players as good as anything in music and videos. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft wants to make friends again. As always, efforts are made honestly about the open source community hostility. Red Hat developer Jan Wildeboer has quoted in his blog passages from the Windows Phone Marketplace Application Provider Agreement, which show that Microsoft banned open-source applications from the App Store for Windows Mobile and Xbox. Read the rest of this entry »
Other day I was again in the situation that I had to submit PDF documents, which could not exceed a maximum file size. No idea who this has been covered, but keep a job application, including all scanned products is under 3MB to have been severely limited. Well, with Ghostscript can be the relatively simple task, but the command is required for this very bulky. Read the rest of this entry »
Is to find Ubuntu-compatible hardware is not rocket science, but also not really trivial. Easy-to-flap only in fairy tales market and the prettiest box choose often means that the device but then again back to the dealer carries. In a press release, Canonical announced today that they have put a database into the grid, in which she of them and tested list for “Ubuntu capable” found to hardware. Read the rest of this entry »
Task management programs are currently somehow the big hit. Programs or Web services such as Getting Things GNOME, Remember The Milk, Springpad, Licorize list sprouting like weeds or sore from the floor. List just wonderful – the way from Germany – seems like netzwertig.com reported to be quite a success story. Read the rest of this entry »
