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Do you have an iPOD, but not a Mac? A cruddy Prof.? OS X, but crave your unix tools? These folks obviously do…
OpenRatings >> All Plats: Dynamic Content
“Want to start a revolution at your educational institution? OpenRatings is a PHP/MySQL website app for rating Professors/teachers and critiquing in the form of a comment section for each prof. Institutions could use this aswell if they wanted to get honest, unfiltered feedback about their staff. And if they wanted to get on the cluetrain…”
Rampart >> All Plats: Website Management
“Before you roll your own PHP authentication system, benefit from the work invested into Rampart and shorten your development cycle.”
gnuPOD >> Linux: Multimedia: Sound
Software is really cool when you seek a reason to use it!
Fink >> Mac OS X: Software Dist: Packaging
“…a port of the Debian tools, including apt. It currently has 1452 packages at various levels of stability, including many of the major applications required for development. It works very, very well.”
And, OSDir.com’s current “Meta Cool” app is definately OpenRatings.
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Today OSDir.com has two sweet app reviews. Both from other bloggers. pyblosxom and Amanda. One to save your daily thoughts and muses and one to save your butt.
pyblosxom >> All Platforms: Weblogs (Blogs)
“..share your blosxom templates and data with pyblosxom. As easy as that. Cool. I’ll have to try it out. That was easy. Python, yummy”
Amanda >> *nix: Backup
“…overall strategy is twofold: to complete a full backup of the data within each cycle and to be sure that all changed data has been backed up between full dumps
We’ve also launched a new feature called “Ask OSDir” where end-users can ask for software recommendations. Check it out too!
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Yummy new reviews/blogs of some cool open source apps for OS X and *nix on OSDir.com….
Fire >> Mac OS X: Instant Messaging
“…’all services’ instant messaging client for IRC, AIM, Jabber, MSN & ICQ”
Use Fire already? Vote for it!
Ogle >> *nix: Multimedia Player (DVD)
“..they’re done what the others haven’t & given you access to the content hidden behind the menu items you can’t get to in the other players”
Use Ogle? Same thing, show your love by Voting for it!
FREE MICKEY
Not only is the message conveyed in a mere second, it speaks volumes in only two words. Our winner is Frequency451 who noticed it from one of Larry Lessig’s presentations.
The most important part of the contest was to create something that would spark a deeper interest in a more lengthy conversation. The issue is deeper than any bumper-sticker motto could possible explain, but we only have ‘three seconds’ to explain it.
I believe that “Free Mickey” does that. And that is backed up in the contest forum. It was the entry that created the most debate among all entries. What other criteria could there be? That was exactly the point.
A bonus point also goes to Frequency451 for choosing a winner that is both a derivative work and from the public domain. No doubt that Lessig created his presentation with much influence from the Eldred v. Ashcroft case he’s working on which has a working motto of “free the mouse”. Hence “FREE MICKEY” would be a derivative work. I’d also assume that Mr. Lessig would place his presentations in the public domain since that is the point of his Creative Commmons work.
Is it better that the current “free the mouse” meme? No. But, as we found, one may be better than another depending on who your audience is. “free the mouse” with people who can identify with technology and “Free Mickey” with those who’d identify with the cute little guy rather than an input device.
Frequency451: contact me directly through OSDir.com. I’ll verify you through O’Reilly.
Oh yeah, what are you gonna do about it? C’mon, really? How about donating to EFF.org?
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To round out the week OSDir.com reviews the Gnome Desktop news aggregator Straw, the software IDE Leo, the all round best and cross platform news aggregator AmphetaDesk, and brings you a really cool CVS trick!
Enjoy!
A quickie update on the Lessig in Three Seconds or Less contest:
I’ve been occupied with my son being ill this week & am extending the announcement date to Tuesday, Sept the 24th. I do so to make sure I get a chance to review all entries thus far fairly and without haste. I don’t imagine anyone will be too upset with that, hmm?
Here are the entries thus far: 1 & 2.
Feel free to submit additional entries until Monday, Midnight PMT.
Also, I had it suggested that, instead of a book, a donation might be made in the winner’s name to the EFF. Your choice. We’ll call the donation an even $50 US.
Straight up!->
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Now that Monday is over, you’ve listened to thirty or so ‘voice-novels’ (voice mails), take a minute & checkout OSDir.com’s reviews of GPIB-Tcl & XChat.
GPIB-Tcl >> All Platforms: Scientific/Engineering
“GPIB-Tcl extends the Tool Command Language (Tcl) by adding several GPIB-related commands.”
XChat >> *nix: IRC clients
“…by far the most superior IRC graphical IRC client for Linux”
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We at OSDir.com have two tasty little treats for you today: BlackBox & Bluefish. Sorry, no Red Herring.”
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Speed up your webserver & your web browing today with two sweet little add-ons for your typical setups of Apache and Mozilla. OSDir.com presents, Lingerd & Multizilla.
Lingerd >> *nix Daemon
Lingerd’s benefits are impressive. When the software was installed on Slashdot.org servers, the immediate result was…”
Multizilla >> Web Browser (Add on)
“… with multiple rows of tabs — it’s the browser of my dreams!”
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Got Game? I mean Gaim? We do. That and an email app called Zoe, for Linux and OS X, that does for email what Radio Userland does for the web.
Gaim >> All Platforms: Instant Messaging
“…Gaim also can support encrypted conversations (using the secure GPG), automatic reconnect, having your incoming messages read to you… I have yet to find a better IM client, and I’ve looked.”
And from our new Watch List:
Zoe >> All Platforms: Email
Now, the Zoe website seems to go out of its way to indicate Zoe’s infancy, but others think its running stable. Give it a try & chime in with your verdict.
We’re also looking for reviews. If you’ve got your groove on for some app stop in & share its beauty with our readers.
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OSDir.com has an apple for the teacher. Well ok, it’s an apple application for Linux. Same thing. Oh yeah, and a super-duper text browser that originated on Linux and was so good it’s been ported to OS X, BeOS, and Win32 systems. Enjoy!
GNUmail.app >> Linux: Email
“…a clone of Apple’s Mail.app program… What is impressive is the portablity of the code itself”
Links >> All Platforms: Web Browser
“Now, I like eye-candy on the web. But, when speed or bandwidth are an issue this app delivers.”
Drop in to OSDir.com to take a peek at these apps and leave a little review yourself. Or you’ll be staying after school!
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Have a happy “hump day”. Check out the latest reviews from OSDir.com…
Chatzilla >> All Platforms: IRC Clients
“…bundled with the Mozilla browser. You may have it & not know it as Mozilla is the great attraction and Chatzilla is often missed.”
Lcrzoex >> *nix: Networking
“The author of Lcrzoex has written in looking for user reviews… …Lcrzoex contains over 400 tools to test an Ethernet/IP network. Each one can be compiled alone and modified to match your needs.”
Put some UMP! in your humpday. Check out these apps & fill us in on what you think of them.
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Welcome back from your long weekend you Canucks and Yanks. Now get to work having fun with these apps from OSDir.com:
OroborOSX >> MacOSX: Window Managers
“… instead of learning new commands or shortcuts it’s nice to use the same app on another platform. I’m sure if you use the other apps listed above you’d appreciate using Oroborosx on your mac laptop if you on the road or on the deck…”
Mozilla >> All Platforms: Web Browsers
“Web browsers are hardly cutting-edge technology, but still… isn’t time you had one that didn’t crash and didn’t try to get you change your homepage to msn.com all the time? “
We’re also always on the look-out for new reviews so stop in to tell us about open source apps that are rocking you world.
