Related link: http://OSDir.com
Today’s open source app reviews are sponsored by the letter “G”:
Galeon >> Linux: Web Browsers
“Galeon is fast and lightweight and while on my linux boxen this is my browser of choice… faster than hell here on a wimpier machine”
Gnucleus >> Windows: File Sharing
“This app just plain works well… best ‘feature’ is that there is no spyware bundled in the program. Ah, sweet, sweet open source code”
Be sure to let us know what you think of these apps or any tips you may have for them.
Related link: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1855
A quick update on the best entries so far in our quest to get Lessig down to three seconds or less…
Remember the idea is to convy just enought that someone would be interested to engage in conversation about the larger issues while giving them some glimpse of insight into the issues from Lessig’s talks and writing.
By my judging here are our top three entries thus far:
Freedom Pending by Usibilitymustdie: Wonderfully sarcastic. Somehow doesn’t have a sense of urgency to find out more. I could be wrong. Comment below.
Shakespeare didn’t copyright, why should you? by boringbot: This one gives me that “hmm yeah why should I?” response.
Free Mickey by Frequency451: Just plain nice, has a sense of urgency and you get that ‘in shackles’ kind of feeling. Also this one is more to the point that the often sighted “free the mouse” web buttons.
I don’t think we’ve seen our best work thus far so keep ‘em coming. Feel free to post further suggestions below and remember our prize, an in print O’Reilly book of your choice (from my pocket), will be choosen on Sept 19th/02
Can we do a bit better?????
Related link: http://OSDir.com
Today’s yummy OSDir.com application-goodness comes from the wonderful worlds of XML and Java.
Our appetizer is Apache::Cocoon >> All Platforms: Web Publishing
“…Flexible publishing (i.e. for browsers, mobiles, in format such as PDF or SVG etc.), integration of data-sources (Cocoon contains ready-to-use components for integrating databases, ldap directories, XML via http etc.) and an extensible Java framework…”
And for a full course, jPOS >> All Platforms: Financial/P.O.S. (Point of Sale)
“…jPOS saved my company hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you are in the financial/payments world, you will be amazed of the extremely high quality and supported work…”
Stop in for a coffee or tea and for desert let us know what you think of these and other apps.
Related link: http://OSDir.com
I must be crazy thinking anyone would be reading blogs about anything other than wacky Jaguar installations today, but here are some reviews of apps from OSDir.com that seem to be working and stable. Any quirks here?:
Chimera >> MacOSX: Web Broswers
“The Chimera website states that the “focus of this release was speed and stability.” Wow. No kidding. This thing is fast”
Kung-Tunes >> MacOSX: Web Logs (Blogs): Hacks
“…a neato little feature for your weblog especially if your readers are particularly fascinated by your every personality quirk like music tastes. “
Give ‘em a test drive & let’s not just see if they’re that good, but if they run well Jaguar too, eh? Report back.
You might also want to take a gander at some of our “Wanted Reviews”. There might be something there that you have some experience with.
Related link: http://OSDir.com
Today fresh sampling of apps at OSDir.com comes to us via the Mac OS X and Java worlds:
Space >> MacOSX: Window Management
and Expresso >> All Platforms: Web Application Developement
Be sure to tell us all what you think of them once you give them a test drive! And stop in to tell us about your favorite Open Source applications while you’re at it.
Related link: http://OSDir.com
We at OSDir.com have three fresh reviews/blogs for your reading pleasure. I’m sure you’ll be pleased with these:
Blosxom >> MacOSX: Web Logs (Blogs),
Geeklog >> Linux: Web Logs (Blogs),
and Acquisition >> MacOSX: File Sharing
Be sure to tell us all what you think of them once you give them a test drive!
This is the real deal. I’ve got an in print O’Reilly book of your choice for you if you win. Leave your braindroppings below (and a contact method) and I’ll post back here periodically with some of the best. I’ll close this out in a month from today. Hope we have a deserving winner.
After you’ve had the experience of hearing Lawrence Lessig speak (or reading the transcripts) a few times and you grasp some, if not all, of the issues involved with the encroachment of the commons and the threat to creative freedoms that come from ever expanding copyrights and increasing thursts for control of intellectual work, you and I are confronted with an underlying challenge aside from doing something about it. Explaining it in under three seconds! Yikes!
Read the transcipt first. Then contemplate this quote:
In an interview two days ago, Watts said, Here’s the problem with Washington: “If you are explaining, you are losing.” If you are explaining, you’re losing. It’s a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don’t, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you’re off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.
The very least we can do is explain this to others. But how? There are a lot of issues, examples, and characters in this story. So we need something, a quick ‘tag line’ that is easy enough for t-shirts, bumpersticks, and laptop stickers. I hate it as much as you do, but that’s how life is. You need a little something that hooks someone’s attention so they are interested enough to want further discussion.
Can you do it? Let’s kick them around & see what we can come up with.
Let me start with something from Mr. Lessig’s book The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World from the second to last paragraph of chapter 10. “Dinosaurs should die.” I’m quite sure you can all do better….
C’mon, put you onboard motor to work!
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am pleased to introduce my new friend on OS X… Space!
Everything you need to know can be summed up in a couple of screenshots:
1) The first screenshot is of virtual workspace “1″. That’s me writing this blog entry. Mozilla browser for OS X, a terminal in the background and irc behind that. Notice “Space” running in the bottom corner with the darkened first pane.
2) Keep in mind that both of these screens exist on my ibook concurrently! If you squint you can see I’ve made seven workspaces to choose from. Here’s a pic of virtual workspace number two that I’m using to do some blogging:
Essentially, you can have as many workspaces as pleases you, keep tasks seperate, and it’s easier than alt-tabbing between apps. You’re alt-tabbing between tasks with a click on the workspace of your choice!
I was going to take a screenshot of “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” playing in the third workspace, but “Grab” wouldn’t take a screenshot with the DVD software running. Trust me. It was playing without problem.
I’m feeling the love.
Sweet. No?
