Light Flow Lets You Pimp Your Notifications
- Aug
- 30
- Posted by Patrick Nelson
- Posted in Reviews
For years, manners have been defined and documented in easy-to-learn rules classed by geography and culture. For example, in some countries it’s acceptable to make abundant noises when eating, whereas in others, eating is a matter to be taken with the utmost seriousness and is performed in stony silence. Then along came the jangling cellphone.
read moreFOSS Devs’ Biggest Complaints: Documentation and Licensing
- Aug
- 29
- Posted by Jack M. Germain
- Posted in Software
Open source software may hold considerable appeal for software developers around the world, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its aggravations. While no one aspect qualifies as the ultimate reason to oppose writing or using open source code, a significant number of programmers report that poor documentation and problems interpreting licenses rank high on their list of grievances.
read moreFOSS Devs’ Biggest Complaints: Documentation and Licensing
- Aug
- 29
- Posted by Jack M. Germain
- Posted in Software
Open source software may hold considerable appeal for software developers around the world, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its aggravations. While no one aspect qualifies as the ultimate reason to oppose writing or using open source code, a significant number of programmers report that poor documentation and problems interpreting licenses rank high on their list of grievances.
read moreZero In on Research Control With Zotero
- Aug
- 28
- Posted by Jack M. Germain
- Posted in Reviews
With countless high school and college students heading back to school at roughly this time of year, now is a good time to get acquainted with Zotero, a great cross-platform tool for collecting, organizing, citing and sharing research sources. I have spent considerable time working in academic settings helping students manage their research assignments.
read moreNexenta’s Lockareff and Powell: Software-Only Storage for Everyone
- Aug
- 27
- Posted by Jack M. Germain
- Posted in Exclusives
In the cloud storage competition for customers, a battle is raging over innovative software-only storage systems and wannabe innovators still hawking yesteryear’s legacy hardware solutions. Dollars and performance are the battlefield stakes. Nexenta, an open source provider of software-defined storage solutions, is waging the fight with its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor.
read moreOde to Groklaw: A Requiem for What Was Lost
- Aug
- 26
- Posted by Katherine Noyes
- Posted in Community
It’s not often we here in the Linux blogosphere must cope with death — figuratively speaking — in the projects and products we love. After all, when it’s open source, what may “die” one day will likely be reborn the next as something new thanks to the beauty of forking, among other things. Just recall Fuduntu — it may have closed its doors earlier this year, but soon afterwards Cloverleaf was born.
read moreIt’s a Go for Omate’s Android-Powered Smartwatch
- Aug
- 23
- Posted by John P. Mello Jr.
- Posted in Smartphones
With nearly a month to spare, startup Omate burst through its Kickstarter goal of $100,000 this week and is on its way to shipping its TruSmart smartwatch in time for the holiday season. More than $250,000 have been pledged so far toward the device, which is perhaps the closest thing yet to an Android smartphone that can be worn on a wrist.
read moreFailed Funding Effort Blunts Canonical’s Ubuntu Edge
- Aug
- 23
- Posted by Richard Adhikari
- Posted in Mobile
Canonical raised more than $12 million over 30 frantic days of crowdfunding its ambitious Ubuntu Edge superphone project, but it was still short some $20 million by the time the effort closed on Wednesday. The company’s target was $32 million. “We raised $12,809,906, making the Edge the world’s biggest ever fixed crowdfunding campaign,” wrote Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth.
read moreSnapchat Adds a Splash of Spontaneity to Sharing Photos
- Aug
- 23
- Posted by Patrick Nelson
- Posted in Reviews
A few weeks ago I looked at Burner, an Android app that creates anonymous, disposable phone numbers for your smartphone. Android app Snapchat is in the same arena in that it, too, provides privacy for smartphone users. The difference, however is that this app uniquely deletes MMS-like multimedia messages once they’ve been viewed.
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