Tag Archives: open source

Firefox 3.5, Wikimedia, Dailymotion and Open Video Format

July 4, 2009 – 12:29 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

With the launch of Firefox 3.5, Firefox became first browser to support Open Video Format. Dailymotion also launched a section to host Videos in Open format. Firefox also awarded $100,000 to Wikimedia foundation to coordinate efforts on development of Ogg Theora and related technology. Read More »

Notepad++ – Free, Simple & Powerful Source Code & Text Editor

August 6, 2008 – 12:19 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Software | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Notepad++ is free open source Windows Source code editor and Notepad replacement. Primary feature is syntax highlighting and code editing. Notepad++ supports many languages. Read More »

Free Software vs Open Source

April 17, 2008 – 10:59 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Software | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Free Software is similar to Open Source. Users must be able to freely use, study, copy, redistribute, modify, and publish modified versions of the software. Here free means Freedom to use rather than Free in price (as in Freewares). Both Free and Open Source have similar objectives but differ on which term is better to covey these objectives. Read More »

Open Source Software (OSS)

April 15, 2008 – 10:15 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Software | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Open Source is a method of developing software in which Source Code is openly and freely available to use. This is different than Propriety or Closed Source Software where Source Code is not available at all or not available to copy and modify. Open Source Software is generally developed publicly in collaborative manner. Linux, Apache, Mozilla Firefox are some of the popular Open Source Software. Read More »

Are we ready to create Wikipedia for Data?

April 9, 2008 – 9:59 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

An article from Bred Taylor titled “We need Wikipedia for Data“, created lot of buzz. As the name suggests article covers need to create freely licensed data that every programmer can access. Later, ReadWriteWeb summarized some of the projects already creating free data. Question remains are we ready to create something as big and useful as Wikipedia? Read More »

Google Gears – Take Webapp Offline

March 31, 2008 – 3:11 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Google gears is an Open Source browser extension (addon) that lets web application work offline. It provides developers with a tool for creating Web applications that can be used Offline too. Web application users can work offline after installing the browser extension and data will be automatically synchronized when they are back online. Read More »

Create free Photocopier

February 1, 2008 – 8:56 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Software | Also tagged , , , | Comments (1)

icopy 300x84 Create free Photocopier imageIf you have a scanner and printer but no photocopy machine, you can create photocopier using free open source software iCopy. Read More »