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Fedora Core 5 review
Reviews The open source equivalent of Microsoft’s .NET, this powers a new Beagle desktop search tool, a photo management utility called F-Spot and Tomboy, a Wiki-like note-taking program. The most obvious change is a brand-new Fedora logo and a 'bubbly...
[March 24, 2006, 12:05]
Ubiquity for Firefox
Blog Some screenshots can be found one this tutorial: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_User_Tutorial A very interesting tool that wraps Web 2.0 functionality up and houses it within the firefox browser.
[August 27, 2008, 15:27]
Google JotSpot exposes user data, says researcher
News This is the case even for wiki pages that groups designated specifically as being private, Edelman wrote in a blog post. A researcher has found that Google's JotSpot service — which allows users to collaborate on online documents — exposes user...
[October 31, 2008, 10:32]
Apple iTunes: A blojan
Blog What we have here is not your standard application bloatware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat) This is something more meaningful than standard feature creep (Hey, let's add a file-sharing service to this installation).
[October 30, 2009, 8:34]
Summer traffic up for Google, down for Microsoft
News Google's time numbers are climbing, no doubt because of new products such as wiki-like Knol. The lazy days of summer on the internet seem to be a boon for Google and Yahoo, but not Microsoft. The latest figures from research firm Nielsen Online...
[August 13, 2008, 9:04]
Ubuntu 9.04 Snaps Desktop Visaster
Blog FireFox of any version is far superior to Internet Exploder 6, 7 and especially version 8 for access to the crappy commercial wiki I've described before. I finally had my fill of Visaster on my office desktop.
[July 18, 2009, 22:31]
Google plug-in lets IE use Chrome technology
News He added that Google has built support for the feature into one of its own websites, the Google Wave project that is a hybrid of email, instant messaging and wiki collaboration. Google released an Internet Explorer plug-in on Tuesday designed to...
[September 23, 2009, 9:26]
'Intrepid Ibex' Ubuntu to focus on mobile web access
News Ubuntu releases are normally supported for 18 months, but Ubuntu LTS releases are supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server, according to the Ubuntu releases wiki. Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has revealed...
[February 21, 2008, 11:59]
Microsoft SharePoint embraces Web 2.0
News It includes templates for enhancing a blog's look, better wiki tools, and a tag cloud feature. Microsoft has launched a Web 2.0 add-on for SharePoint Server that enables businesses to make use of popular collaboration features such as wikis and blogs.
[June 25, 2007, 12:07]
CPU Frequency Scaling
Blog The Ubuntu Community Wiki mentions that previous releases needed an additional parameter for the kernel boot command, so I thought the obvious thing to do was try that. Reducing the CPU speed is an important part of power management in modern...
[April 3, 2009, 14:03]
Fedora, Slackware, Debian... and Philosophy
Blog Comment Unless distributions use the binaries supplied by Mozilla or else have special permission, they must compile the Firefox source with an option enabled which gives Firefox the codename of the release version of Firefox on which it is based, and...
[July 12, 2008, 19:53]
Have OSS-inspired developer self-study techniques come of age?
Blog Kelvin told me that he often creates his own Wiki of the material in question as he studies it. I was fortunate enough to sit in on a Java training course at Sun Microsystems’ UK headquarters not so long ago and good though it was, I had a...
[December 7, 2009, 7:36]
The blogosphere strikes back at censorship
News Bloggers quickly posted instructions on how to circumvent the alleged blocks at a wiki called Bypassing the Ban in India, while a Web site called India Censored devoted to the issue has been created by Srinivasan Ravi, a member of the Google...
[July 20, 2006, 14:25]
Asian web surfers top for time spent online
News Germany stood out for its wiki involvement, with 92 percent of German respondents indicating that they view or contribute to wikis. Internet users in China aged below 25 spend on average 50 percent of their leisure time online, according to a survey.
[December 1, 2008, 9:24]
Yeeeaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!
Talkback I used it today to open some pages on that wiki product I hate but have to use and the pages almost made audible pops as they opened. I almost didn't believe it! This is the best news ever. Even if Google isn't able to shove Microsoft aside hard...
[July 10, 2009, 9:28]
Cobra takes a bite at open source
News After completing his short-term plans for a wiki and an issue tracker, Esterbrook said he plans to create a "Visual Cobra" plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. The Cobra programming language has been made available via open source, according to its...
[March 5, 2008, 12:52]
Microsoft shuns Open Cloud Manifesto
Blog Microsoft's Martin concluded that "any 'manifesto' should be created, from its inception, through an open mechanism like a Wiki, for public debate and comment, all available through a Creative Commons license".
[March 27, 2009, 15:39]
Google Wave: a First Look review
Reviews It's just like using a cross between IM and a wiki. Google Wave arrived back in May with a blast of publicity — including a keynote of its own at Google's I/O conference. The initial story from the Google team was impressive, with Wave touted as a...
[September 23, 2009, 11:03]
Drizzle project to trim down MySQL
News No official release schedule has yet been set for Drizzle, but instructions for developers to check out the latest code are available from the Drizzle Wiki. Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a project to create a...
[July 24, 2008, 11:01]
Australian Collaboration Situation
Blog What may be different about this product is that unlike other Wiki-style tools, Modelpedia's web 2.0 browser-based collaborative capabilities centre on structured content that is managed in an enterprise repository.
[August 17, 2009, 10:02]
