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Disgruntled WhatsApp users switch to rival open source Telegram app
Android / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / open source / web

Disgruntled WhatsApp users switch to rival open source Telegram app

Friday, Feb 21, 2014Friday, Feb 21, 2014 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

It seems that not everyone was delighted by Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of the popular messaging service WhatsApp, with the news sparking a wave of defections to the rival Telegram …

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Ultra cheap Raspberry Pi £22 computer starts shipping
computing / open source

Ultra cheap Raspberry Pi £22 PC starts shipping, hopes to make Britain great again

Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

With pre-orders selling out in less than a day, the £21.60 Raspberry Pi Linux computer is generating an awful lot of interest, with some pundits heralding it as a revolution in computing.

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Ace open source audio editor Audacity hits v2, available on PC, Mac, Limux
Apple / audio / computing / open source / software / Windows

Ace open source audio editor Audacity hits v2, available on PC, Mac, Linux

Monday, Mar 19, 2012 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

Our favourite, open-source sound editing program, Audacity, has just enjoyed a timely upgrade, taking the freebie program up to version 2.0. The latest iteration looks much as the last version – fans …

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computing / open source / web

Iomega TV with Boxee offers onboard network storage up to 2GB – full specs listed

Thursday, Dec 1, 2011Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

We associate them most with the old Zip drive from computing days of yore, but Iomega are hoping to make a splash in the emerging Internet TV/media centre market with …

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computing / open source / web

Firefox slowing to a crawl? Check out the bad boy extensions here

Monday, Apr 4, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - Leave a Comment

We got so fed up with Firefox getting slower and slower that we switched to Chrome, but Mozilla’s now gone on the offensive and pointing the blame at the developers …

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mobile apps / mobiles / open source / software

Firefox 4 RC for Android and Maemo now available

Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011 - by Pete Railton - Leave a Comment

If you’ve been feeling the love for the recently released Firefox 4 desktop browser, then steady your heart as Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo is now available as a …

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Android / iPhone / mobiles / open source

Songbird music player comes to Android, looks a good ‘un

Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 - by Pete Railton - Leave a Comment

Already a very popular open source music media manager/player on Windows and Mac, Songbird has now come to the Android platform.

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open source / software / web

WordPress 3.1 released – now ‘more of a CMS than ever before’

Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 - by Pete Railton - Leave a Comment

WordPress, the open source Content Management System that powers 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites on the planet has just received an update, with version 3.1 being christened ‘Django”’ in …

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computing / open source

Ubuntu 10.10 netbook-optimised OS is looking good

Monday, Oct 11, 2010Monday, Oct 11, 2010 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Canonical has officially launched the latest version of its popular Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 10.10, with an attractive interface aimed at impressing netbook users.

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open source / web

Forum Board Wars – may the Xen be with you (vBulletin vs XenForo)

Wednesday, Oct 6, 2010Tuesday, Oct 5, 2010 - by Doctor WatsOn - 8 Comments.

The seeds of a real David –v- Goliath battle of the boards have been sown as a big American corporate giant decides to sue a small British start-up – and …

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computing / Google / open source / video

Google Labs gives video chat a quality boost

Saturday, Sep 18, 2010Friday, Sep 17, 2010 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

After bubbling away in Google’s Labs, an enhanced image quality option for video chat is now ready for public consumption.

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open source / web

Open source Diaspora site aims to right Facebook’s social networking wrongs

Friday, Aug 27, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Diaspora, an open source open alternative to the monstrously popular social networking site Facebook is set to launch on 15th September. Describing itself as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do it all, …

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Toggl’s time tracking tools look a treat for your timesheet needs

Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

Billed as a “timesheet killer,” Toggl  is great way for freelancers and team-workers to keep track of their time spent working for The Man. The free service comes in several …

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open source / software / web

WordPress 3.0 (aka Thelonious) gets official release

Thursday, Jun 17, 2010Friday, Jun 18, 2010 - by mike s - 5 Comments.

WordPress – the most popular blog software on the planet and the content management system powering this very site – has just enjoyed a major upgrade to version 3.0.

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Is Google really open? An open source guru comments [Video]

Sunday, May 23, 2010Monday, May 24, 2010 - by Pete Railton - Leave a Comment

The good folks at Mashable have put together an interesting interview with Free Software Foundation and GNU founder Richard Stallman, discussing just how “open” Google really is. Super beardy Stallman …

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