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An Exploration of Python Dependencies (Part I)

No Comments 08 June 2011

This is intended as an absolute beginner Python programmer’s guide to the PYTHONPATH and importing your own modules to your projects easily. This should work on most Unix-like (*nix) machines. I struggled for a while when I first started using Linux and programming Python to figure out exactly how the Python path worked and how to [...]

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4 Reasons Content Creators Do Not Suffer The Consequences of Piracy

No Comments 13 May 2011

This is a guest post by Nikhil Somaru. Nikhil is tech-head open-source junkie with a spiritual edge. He left South Africa in search of Truth (if any  and is currently imbibing a system of philosophy known as Vedanta in India. In his spare time, he listens to Wagner and wonders just what he’s gotten himself in [...]

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Piracy != Theft

4 Comments 09 May 2011

This is a guest post by Nikhil Somaru. Nikhil is tech-head open-source junkie with a spiritual edge. He left South Africa in search of Truth (if any and is currently imbibing a system of philosophy known as Vedanta in India. In his spare time, he listens to Wagner and wonders just what he’s gotten himself [...]

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Useful Wikileaks Search Engine

1 Comment 13 December 2010

Wikileaks is very popular at the moment, they have just over a million documents and are releasing 250 000 new US Cablegate documents. These documents contain top secret information from around the world and make for very interesting reading but the biggest problem Wikileaks has is that it is impossible to browse this large database [...]

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The FLOSS INCLUDE project

No 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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Local Mirror for TED talks

No 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

No 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?

2 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

5 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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