Category Archives: Open Source

Field – Experimental Code and Art

Love this: http://www.openendedgroup.com/field/ Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind: Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and [...]

Why Apple Supports HTML 5 (Sorry Adobe/Flash)

Interesting article over at apple insider on standards, apple, and html 5. While the standard isn’t yet finished, Apple is already using HTML 5 as an important component in the company’s strategies, ranging from the iPod touch and iPhone’s mobile browser to Safari on the Mac and PC, from Dashboard widgets to new iTunes LP [...]

Realtime Firefox 3.5 Downloads

Have you downloaded 3.5 yet? Watch the downloads in a sparkline type graph in realtime. http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/

s3 backup + mySql dump

These two open source scripts are very useful when combined with cron: s3 Tools : http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/ OpenSource tools to access Amazon S3 file storage. s3cmd – unix-like tools to manipulate stored files from the command line, s3fuse – driver to mount the S3 storage locally. and automysqlbackup : http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ A script to take daily, weekly [...]

google via shell

I love this “shell” interface to google. http://goosh.org/

Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software

Not exactly sure if it is the “Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software” but worth a mention…link