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Local Mirror for TED talks

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

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?

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

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 from [...]

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Setup Open Source Systems in a Snap

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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TEDglobal2007 Talk Take aways from 27Dinner Cape Town

Comments 02 September 2007

Even though were packed together like your names on the tag cloud on Your Web AddiCT(s); community page. The TYFYC community Your Web AddiCT was not like Kahlil Gibrand this time round and said more than one sentence. Here goes a quick recap (of some) of the ideas and concepts experieced at TEDGlobal2007 and [...]

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Linux alternative to Microsoft Surface enroute

Comments 17 July 2007

Miguel blogged about Microsoft’s Surface multi-touch computer interface. Found out about the Linux alternative beeing called MPX or Multi-Pojnter X, on Tectonic Open Source news, that is still in the early phases of development. Some interesting bits… The software is still in development and there are a ton of bugs to fix according to Hutterer. However, it [...]

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Ubuntu coming to Dell desktops & notebooks

Comments 02 May 2007

As you know, finding a notebook with any Linux distro in South Africa or without Windows pre-installed is easier said than done. Read this on the Direct 2 Dell blog : As part of an overall effort to update our Linux program, today we are announcing a partnership with Canonical to offer Ubuntu on select consumer desktop [...]

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Kubuntu 7.04 – Is the the Linux distro for those coming from a Windows background

Comments 25 April 2007

ZDnet reports: The other day I posted a question which asked “Which is best – Ubuntu or Kubuntu?” Interestingly one of the most popular replies that I got was “it depends.” With this phrase in mind I decided to take Kubuntu for a spin and see for myself which I preferred. read more | [...]

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