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• How To Migrate Nokia Address Book to Google Android for Free

  
  Web AddiCT(s); — Authority: 123
  You’ve been using Nokia phones most of your life so whenever you changed mobile phones from one Nokia to another you could transfer all your contacts from your old Nokia (Nokia 6110 Navigator)  to your new Nokia (Nokia N97). Now all of a sudden you’ve discovered the wonders that are Google Android phones and ...
  21 hours ago

• Google Open Source Projects You Didn’t Know About

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 458
  Google is not all about just the search engine and email, they have tons of other projects which are widely used. I just came across some Open source projects by Google , which were really unknown to me. Some of the FOSS projects by Google include: Google Crush – A custom reporting tool for Shell. Google ...
  2 days ago

• I love Google search results… OS X trails Linux

  
  Free Trader Beowulf — Authority: 119
  Here are the results: I love Suse      -     412,000I love Fedora    -   1,180,000I love Uubntu    -   4,040,000I love OS X      -  28,100,000I love Linux     -  81,600,000I love iPod      - 153,000,000I love Youtube   - 263,000,000I love Windows 7 - 369,000,000I love Windows   ...
  4 days ago

• Sanctuary: A Warm and Cozy Place to Be

  
  Poptimal.com — Authority: 488
  Secret organizations, mutants, historical references and global locales are what attracted me to Syfy Channel’s Sanctuary . It began as a web series that was picked up by the network and is now on its second season. The Canadian television series features Amanda Tapping , most known for her role on Stargate ...
  5 days ago

• Microsoft Faces Ban on Word

  
  Free Trader Beowulf — Authority: 119
  For those that have been following the story for a while there is finally new information. An appeals court on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word 2007 and other Office 2007 products by Jan. 11 because the software infringes on a patent held by a Canadian company. The judge also hit Microsoft ...
  6 days ago

• Openings: Winter Group Show @ White Walls

  
  Arrested Motion — Authority: 622
  In addition to Travis Louie’s ( interviewed ) opening at Shooting Gallery last weekend ( covered ), the Winter Group Show debuted alongside in the adjoining White Walls gallery.  Featuring some heavy hitters such as Shepard Fairey ( featured ), the Clayton Brothers ( featured ), and ...
  6 days ago

• Python wanderings, part one

  
  tenshu.net — Authority: 106
  As mentioned in my earlier post about refactoring Terminator, I want to talk about some of the things I’ve learned about Python and programming in the last few months. If I were you I wouldn’t place any great significance in anything I’m about to say – after all I’m a rank amateur in the field of ...
  6 days ago

• An Interview With Paultag

  
  Joe Blog's — Authority: 407
  I have a feeling that not so many of you will have heard of Paultag, unless you’re on the Ubuntu Beginners Team, or the Ohio LoCo. But I’ve experienced Paul’s commitment to Ubuntu, and he’s always willing to help out…which is good, because I find myself asking him things surprisingly often He has some ...
  1 week ago

• LUGOR Logo Part 5

  
  Free Trader Beowulf — Authority: 119
  I think I am nearing the end… this last logo I almost like enough to be satisfied. (click for larger image) This could be paired with the non-badge county shape as well (see below) (click for larger image) I think the pair are pretty good… it is time to sleep on this and let the LUG members vote.
  1 week ago

• A Concise Introduction to Free and Open Source Software

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 159
  Andy Updegrove writes an article providing an overview of the history of FOSS and its champions, the major philosophical differences that divide FOSS from OSS developers, the multiple licenses under which FOSS is made available, and the principle non-profit institutions that support and promote FOSS.
  1 week ago

• Open Source Jobs: FOSS Certification Manager (Africa)

  
  Commercial Open Source Software — Authority: 120
  FOSSFA and InWEnt announced the vacancy for the “FOSS Certification Manager for ict@innovation”, see the job description for more information. The contract will go from 15/2/2010 to 31/12/2010, and is renewable. Candidates should send an application before the 20th of January 2010 to Mr Frederick Yeboah ...
  1 week ago

• How to install Joomla on an Ubuntu localhost

  
  Computer Talks |Fix Problems of your PC — Authority: 120
  Installing Joomla in an Ubuntu Box is fairly straight forward work. The world has being lot more easier on CMS installations than early days.In our previous CMS tutorial for linux we gave you instructions on how to install drupal in localhost .Follow the steps below to come up with a quick Jommla installation on ...
  1 week ago

• Experimenting with Glista on OS X

  
  Premature Optimization — Authority: 91
  I haven’t blogged in a while, probably because I was too busy. I’ve been working, started to take some university classes (Philosophy & Computer Science), and… I’m doing most of my work on Mac OS X now. Don’t worry, I’m still a Linux guy - but mostly for work purposes (and out of curiosity) I [...]
  1 week ago

• Epic Terminator refactoring afoot

  
  tenshu.net — Authority: 106
  The current bzr repository for Terminator began its life in November 2006 with the simplest possible implementation of the concept of packing multiple terminals into one window. In the 3 years since then we have expanded and extended the code in a variety of directions to produce a moderately compelling feature set, ...
  1 week ago

• Robert Sugden

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 550
  | Nicolai Foss | I have become a huge fan of Robert Sugden , an economics Professor at the University of East Anglia and one of the most cited UK economists.  Readers of this blog may know Sugden’s work from, for example, his excellent 1986 book, The Economics of Rights, Co-operation, and Welfare , as well as ...
  1 week ago

• Adding an external user store to the WSO2 Gadget Server

  
  Conundrum — Authority: 114
  We put up an on line demo of the WSO2 Gadget Server at http://gsdemo.wso2.org today. One thing I noticed when putting up the demo is how easy it is to bring in an external user store to the the Gadget Server. We wanted all WSO2 Oxygen Tank users to be able to use this hosted instance without the hassle of ...
  1 week ago

• eTG seminar: FLOSS in the public sector

  
  ICT4D.at — Authority: 109
  Notes from the eDevelopment thematic Group seminar on the “ Use of Free/Open Source Software in the Public Sector: Brazil Experience “. . Introduction and welcoming speeches Cem Dener (ECSPE), Deepak Bhatia (GICT), Samia Melhem (GICT), Oleg Petrov ( e-Development Thematic Group ), Mikhail Bunchuk ...
  1 week ago

• Will PLM Get Troubled by Future FOSS databases?

  
  Daily PLM Think Tank Blog — Authority: 124
  The following article in TechWords “The New FOSS Frontier: The Database Market” drove me to think about PLM and RDBS relationships from a different angle. For PLM, as for all enterprise applications these days, RDBMS is almost commodity. PLM supports all of them (actually there are not so many – Oracle, MS ...
  1 week ago

• Fossy’s Gay Ute

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 145
  Craig Foss has got himself a new ute. Well if you call such a soft vehicle a ute at all. It’s the sort of thing Charles Chauvel would drive. Shortly after he got it Stuart “The Mangrove” Nash was seen climbing all over the back of it when the whinging bikers were in town. I hear he wants to borrow it for the ...
  1 week ago

• Introducing WSO2 Gadget Server

  
  Conundrum — Authority: 114
  Today we officially launched the WSO2 Gadget Server. Paul posted his thoughts on this new Apache Licensed product a few days back. "Portals have become the main tool for pulling together the vital information your users need - whether its company information, executive dashboards or technical status updates. The ...
  1 week ago

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