Link to Top 10 OSS at SourceForge projects:
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13030/53/
This is interesting. Kinda gives you indication of direction of software writers out there.
There are some very interesting projects in SourceForge that are not top 10.
SourceForge is a beautiful thing.
"What the US fears - other countries taking control of their own destinies"
Quoted from http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12941/1090/ :
Hugo Chavez ... has launched the country's own line of PCs running Linux.
Bolivarian Computers are made by the joint venture VIT (Venezuela de Industria Tecnológica), which is owned by the Chinese company Lang Chao and the Venezuelan Ministry of Light Industry and Commerce.
The author then goes on to explain why socialist supporters recommended the use of open source software, which led to the move.
He writes about the fact that in Venezuela there is a mandate that all government IT infrastructure use open source software wherever possible.
Apple has been promoting new features on their upcoming upgrade to Mac OS X, dubbed Leopard. (See the features yourself at Apple's website)
The new Mac OS X desktop metaphor is the iTunes interface. If you have never used iTunes, a quick description for you: on the left you have a navigation bar with recent and frequent and convenient locations, the top has a view changer and a search box, and on the right you have the main content. If you have used iTunes and hate its interface, you can turn it off and keep the old finder interface. Spotlight can search computers nearby that are sharing files, and can even search your home computer if you have a $99-a-year .Mac subscription. The dock has flattened its background to the floor, giving the appearance of a 3D space; windows' contents reflect off the dock floor. The dock has the ability to contain stacks of icons, which act like collections of items that reveal themselves ("fan out") as though on a stack when the icon is activated. The new Finder has translucent menus, big icon previews, Cover Flow navigation, and a new feature called Quick Look.
Quick Look allows you to take a quick preview of a file's content without having to open the program that is normally used to open that file. This feature is transformational because it is pervasive: you can take a quick look into any file's content without having to open its native program, at any time from any Finder window.
Apple's wisecracking copy writers bill Time Machine as a "great leap backward". What is amazing about Time Machine, is that it takes a task that is typically so tedious and impossibly frustrating and makes it effortless, automatic and even fun. You almost wish you have occasion to use it as soon as possible, just so that you can say that you've gone back in time. Plugging in an external drive and letting the OS do the rest - not even a one-click or one-button backup, no configuration, no confirmation screen. Your backup simply happens. All files. And with ZFS, really exciting (more technical) things can happen.
Spaces - for organizing your windows into working spaces, free of clutter. Yes, this has been available from other software developers, packages and vendors, on a variety of operating systems, including Mac OS X. Now a prominent software company (yes, I wrote software company, and yes I am referring to Apple) makes this an integral feature of their desktop metaphor. Yes, I have seen Microsoft's Virtual Desktop software, I have used it. Apple adds its signature and flair: drag and drop, animation, simplicity, and attention to it.
Mail - Now featuring stationery, notes, and to-do lists (Outlook, anyone?). Stationery now uses the media browser (also used in iWeb) and allows you to modify templates, and zoom/crop and reorder images. It is smarter: it recognizes addresses, phone numbers, dates, and it does the 'smart' thing to do: asks to create a new contact or add an address to an existing contact; asks to add an event on a date to a calendar, respectively. Mail is now also capable of displaying RSS news feeds.
iChat adds the ability to share media - pictures, movies, presentations - indeed, any file format which can use Quick Look can be displayed in a video chat. Other special effects include the same effects seen in Photo Booth, being able to change backgrounds to a picture or movie of your choosing, and other similar effects.
There are ten more top features that Apple focuses on. I will write about them on a subsequent post.
See FAQ: Eyewall Replacement [Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Lab] and How hurricanes replace their eyewalls [USATODAY.com] for a detailed explanation. It seems that Hurricane Dean is undergoing such a cycle.
At the center of every hurricane is the eye of the storm. Surrounding it is the eyewall, where the most severe weather of a cyclone occurs.
It is currently hitting Jamaica.
google has created a new service that bundles some of their previously existing apps into new combinations of offerings (in essence, new services).
one is google apps. to learn more about it, visit google apps web site. google apps is a suite of online productivity tools that enable you to create documents of different types (text, spreadsheeets, presentations, databases) and allows you to control versions, share, and collaborate with others. google has also created different "editions" for these products, including a collaboration edition for workplaces, education institutions, non-profits, and other organizations.
another service google recently started offering is google sites. to learn more about google sites, visit the google sites web site. google sites is a set of online tools for people to create collaboration web sites; think of workgroups or project management. (also, compare to atlassian's confluence, and microsoft's sharepoint). google sites allow you to create a web-based space for project collaboration, such as file managers, project task and issues tracking, etc.
integrated with google apps for education, google sites offers a powerful new way of collaborating with others on projects, whether they be class- or research- or administrative- or IT-related.
There is a smart way and a stupid way to ask questions, says this guy. Interesting.
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
www.lost.eu/77674
NYU students are interviewed about courtship by text message, in the latest NYTimes Tech Talk podcast.
A link, [ http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2009/02/11/12techtalk.mp3 ]
Learned today:
I like this error message: temporary problem with this service; try again. if you get this error again, try again later.
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