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The FLOSS INCLUDE project

View Comments 27 July 2010

FLOSS (Free/ Libre/ Open Source Software) refers to a collaborative, distributed, collective and innovative approach to software development. FlOSS has numerous benefits, especially for developing countries as it lowers the barriers to entry, usage, costs, adaptability, has been translated into more dialects and languages than any other software available including Vietnamese and Khmer and numerous [...]

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MeeGo Where Maemo & Moblin Went

View Comments 18 February 2010

Maemo is a software platform developed by Nokia for smartphones and Internet Tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution. The platform comprises the Maemo operating system and the Maemo SDK. Maemo is mostly based on open source code, and has been developed by Maemo Devices within Nokia in collaboration with many open source [...]

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Local Mirror for TED talks

View Comments 23 January 2010

After Jason Adriaan’s guest blog post about Local List, Your Web AddiCT went over to ISlabs to see what was new and this idea from Charl van Niekerk immediately caught my attention:

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The Future of Open Source: SixthSense

View Comments 19 November 2009

In this TEDTalk at TEDindia 2009 the MIT Media Lab’s Pranav Mistry shares his SixthSense invention with the audience. SixthSense is a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. What’s really interesting is that he is planning to open source the code that makes the SixthSense technology [...]

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Mac Anti-Virus? Is it really needed?

View Comments 18 October 2009

For the short few years I have been using Macs I never encountered or even heard of a virus infecting the Mac OS X operating system. While doing the research for a previous post about an open source anti-virus application for Windows users I came across ClamXav.

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Open Source Anti-Virus options for Windows Users

View Comments 16 October 2009

Anti-Virus is needed if your runs any Windows operating system. Both Windows XP or Windows 7 require an anti-virus program to protect your computer from email viruses, malicious malware, worms or spy ware. There are various anti-virus programs available for your windows operating system that are free or open source that will protect your computer [...]

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Exciting releases for KDE users

View Comments 06 October 2009

October is looking good so far for the KDE users, with two significant releases in the first week. Both look promising with loads of bug fixes in the changelogs. Amarok 2.2 “Sunjammer” released on 01 October. The release notes promises to have brought back many of the features we all yearn for, as we had [...]

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Software Freedom Day Cape Town

View Comments 16 September 2009

Make a date in your diary for 19 September 2009. CLUG has plans for a Software Freedom Day Party. The plans are: Spend a day fixing up our Freedom Toaster and have a bit of a party. There are a whole pile of things that need to be done, so you don’t need any insane [...]

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Setup Open Source Systems in a Snap

View Comments 18 October 2007

In todays times, if you’re hosting your website in the public domain with a web host, it’s most likely that you will have some sort of platform already setup for you where you can just copy the files from the open source application of your choice’s website straight to the file space setup for you [...]

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