Y ears ago when I was at OpenAdvantage, I worked closely with a group called Access To Recycled Technology. Formed by two salt-of-the-earth students called Steve and Vinnie, they secured what they referred to as “access space” in Birmingham. It was basically a decent sized room that they used to...

Google’s blog is announcing the release of Picasa for Mac at MacWorld. Even though they’ve previously released a Picasa Web Albums uploader and iPhone plug-in, the full-featured free software offers Mac users a way to edit, upload, and share video and images, surpassing iPhoto in feature...

 New Version Adds Mail Server Capability And Enhanced NAS Management Features To Existing Synology NAS Servers Free Of Charge. (January 05, 2009) Synology® Inc. today announces the availability of its Disk Station Manager 2.1 Beta which further utilizes AJAX technology, adds new mail server ca...

New Apps for the New Year (NANY) is the motto of the Nany Challenge over at Donation Coder. It’s already the second year of the challenge and lots of new software programs have been released during that challenge. To be precise: 35 new and free software programs have been released which more t...

1665 The first edition of the first issue of the first scientific journal, Journal des Sçavans (”Journal des Savants”), is published as a twelve page quarto pamphlet in Europe. The journal, founded by Denis de Sallo, appeared only weeks before the publication of the first issue of the P...

Posted by Soulskill (54% noise) View Skip TRNick writes “What’s the state of free software, 25 years after GNU’s birth? TechRadar has an interview with Richard Stallman to find out. Stallman thinks free software is making good progress: ‘Nowadays hardware developers are also ...

I’m subscribed to a couple of hundred feeds over at Newsgator, but I have been seriously, seriously behind on nearly all of them — including the feeds of some close friends. I was just overwhelmed over the past year or so, and fell behind on everything. Anyway, in the past few days I cho...

My family’s email account in Blantyre was blocked twice in the past week, due to well-meaning but over-sized Christmas and New Year email greetings. Attachments with over 2 MBs. The family is still on a phone line with a very slow connection rate. And downloading emails with a large attachment...

I feel a compulsive need to document vacations, even those spent at home, in order to sustain them or at least to post-mortem them in the case of failure. I treat vacations like lefties do Obama, like the dawning of a new era. Contrary to past experience. I see every vacation, even short 4-day’rs,...

RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:"Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportuniti...