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Well, everyone loves open source. There is a big, alphabetical, wiki list of open source software here. Or at least, it contains everything considered as worthy of the list. Some of it is rubbish, but it’s worth a look
Every day there is another lawsuit about someone getting busted for downloading loads of copywritten material from BitTorrent, they are then forced to pay a huge amount of money to some phonographic institution to make up for it. However even if they are forced to spend thousands of pounds, it still doesn’t make up for all the stolen material. So now lots of big companies have come up with a new take on P2P, like a subscriber service, or perhaps a service that blocks copywritten material. Yeah, great, but haven’t these people realised that a vast majority of the traffic on P2P networks is ILLEGAL, sharing copywritten material, or explicit content. They might like to think that you will want to use it as a cheap download hosting thing, or to promote your unsigned bands new single. The problem is that people don’t, they want free music. They might also like to think that you will use it to share your pictures with family, but we have email for that and we don’t want any old chap getting hold of them. No, if they are really intent on stopping piracy, they might as well ban P2P altogether, it hardly matters, seeing as there will be a replacement technology in about 5 minutes. Fortunately that technology will be open source, so everyone will be able to have even more of a laugh when Microsoft arrives on the scene 5 years late as per normal.
Well, at least it isn’t Microsoft doing this, but I was happy to discover that you can get stickies for windows, that actually work! Or you could get a Mac, but these are free, so why not just get them and Flyakite OSX. Then you could pretend that you have a Mac.
-Via Download Squad
Wow, not sure if this is very nice or politically correct, but quite interesting anyway, and free. Kumawar.com is offering load of missions from recent conflicts around the world to play, for free. I’m not sure if this is that nice really, especially the way it’s presented, with no thought for all the lives lost, so give me your comments to see your reaction.
via, ish- Joystiq
Cool, what every hip Christian must have today, at least anyone who wants to make a rather attention seeking statement about their faith. Personally I think that this is a bit strange, but then come to think about it, just think how many iPod shuffles must get scratched by metal crosses, so the iBelieve combines the two, bringing both comfort and musical comfort, and a lot of attention, all in a replacement lanyard cap for the iPod Shuffle. Available from devoted1.com for $12.95.
-via Engadget
If you didn’t spot this on Digg, you ought to have. Hide My Ass is a free proxy browser, that lets you visit any site you want, anywhere, unfiltered… School, Work, Library, the possibilities are limitless.
Here is a fat list of free music programs, creation, editing, you name it this will probably have it so long as it is to do with music. I also found a rather nice lot of loops from flashkit.com so here they are. Nice really. Oh and it’s my 50th post so I though I would celebrate…
This site will soon be selling iPods in 460 different colour combos. They’re also scratch resistant, very very nice.
via Digg
Powermac
These now have 4 processors instead of 2. The chips are now dual core. This means in basic tersm that in each processor chip there are two independant processors. So two sets of two makes for. This makes them almost twice as fast as they were before. You can also now have 8 20″ or 23″ screens connected to one of these computers if you have a powerful enough graphics card to do that. The top of the range G5 box will set you back £2300. And more for a really powerful graphics card. You can also have 16gb of high performance RAM. So most people could have all the music that they have on their computer put into a G5’s RAM and it would still run smoothly.
Powerbook
The 17″ model will now display a maximum resolution of 1680x1050. This is also a widescreen resolution. Which it a lot since you are probably viewing this at 1024x768. This graphics card will also run an external 30″ cinema display if you happen to have one of those. The 17″ model also has a 120gb hard drive and weighs in at a tidy 3.1kg! One final thing that you can do, if you have a 15″ or 17″ then you can swap the battery in it without turning it off, just put it to sleep and change without having to save your work!
Flock is a new internet browser which is presumably aimed at PC users that are currently using internet explorer and are looking for something better that isn’t Firefox. At the moment it in in Beta. On Flock’s homepage it says (more…)
Whilst Digg and the like get all excited about the blog and feed orientated Firefox clone, Flock. It got me thinking, shouldn’t it be quarantined, so it can be checked for H5N1 Avian flu? Could it spread to your computer? Could your computer contaminate you? Maybe it could mutate in your computer through a line of corrupted code (Windows users most at risk here) and start a global pandemic which could spread by email and printouts. No, I think that Flock should be checked out by a vetinary doctor and be slaughtered immediately if it shows any signs of bird flu. Watch out. Don’t start a pandemic!
I’m not really a fan of light bulbs, they hurt your eyes, they break and they aren’t very efficient. Of course, they are necessary though. Not any more! This report shows that a new discovery could turn you wall or table into a very efficient, bright LED. Wow! Very nice indeed. Oh, and they last longer than a bulb.
AOL has recently released a public beta version code-named Triton (can be downloaded here), its newest instant messenging program. The change that stands out the most in Triton is the use of tabs. If you’re chatting with multiple people, the chats will be consolidated into one window. You can access each current chat by clicking on a tab in the left column. There is also another set of tabs that include audio and video messaging, viewing pictures, sending files, and playing games with buddies (located at the top row of each chat). These tabs make it much easier to access every feature Triton has to offer from one window, which saves lots of space. Speaking of saving space, you may notice an image in the screenshot above that takes up lots of space — the large ads that live in each chat tab are very annoying, and hopefully AOL will hear enough complaints to make the ads less obtrusive or get rid of them altogther. Read more at Technology News, Etc.
