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The Beginner's Guide to Inkscape
In the open source community focused on graphics tools, GIMP gets a great deal of attention, and there are many free online resources available for it, but if you're in search of an open source illustration tool that can compete with Adobe Illustrator and is increasingly useds by designers for effects, logos and still graphics, give Inkscape a try. Show More Summary
Project Savanna, Bridging Hadoop and OpenStack, Moves Forward
April's OpenStack Summit was a huge showcase for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing solutions, and included a fair amount of discussion about integration between the OpenStack cloud computing platform and the Hadoop data crunching tool. Show More Summary
Wikipedia Migrates to MariaDB
More and more Oracle is looking like the place where good software goes to die a slow and lonely death. Sure, Oracle is still developing MySQL, but who’s there to work on it anymore? Since the best and brightest tend to leave OracleShow More Summary
Early Apps for Mozilla's Firefox OS Are Taking Shape
For several weeks now, Mozilla has been aggressively sponsoring events--including a series of hack days--to woo app developers to its emerging Firefox OS for mobile devices. Called “Firefox OS App Days,” hack day events took place in...Show More Summary
Broadcasting and Consuming Media with VLC Media Player
The holidays usually afford most of us a little time to experiment with new applications, and if you've got a little time on your hands, getting to know VLC Media Player, available for Windows, the Mac and Linux, is one of the best choices you can make. Show More Summary
New Ad for Ubuntu for Android Arrives, But Where's the Beef?
If you've been waiting for Ubuntu for Android, it still isn't here yet, but you can take in a promotional video for it, available here. As Mark Shuttleworth has made clear, Canonical is moving quickly ahead with its plans to bring Ubuntu to platforms going well beyond just desktop computers. Show More Summary
New Version of Chrome Adds Do Not Track Privacy and Boosts Batteries
Google is out with the new Stable Release version 23 of the Chrome browser, which is notable for several reasons. Thanks to the way it handles video decoding, users on portable devices such as laptops who are, say, watching YouTube videos will get longer battery life. Show More Summary
Get Going Quickly with the Powerful Audacity Audio Platform
We've covered Audacity on a number of occasions. Audacity is an audio propduction platform that compares very well with software used in professional environments, including tools for silencing ambient noise, combining, cutting, moving, and mixing tracks. Show More Summary
Get Started--and Get Streaming--With VLC Media Player
We've made the point before that VLC Media Player, available for Windows, the Mac and Linux, is one of the best open source applications of any kind. The application is famous for handling nearly any kind of video file format for playback;...Show More Summary
TextMate 2, OS X, and Open Source
TextMate is one of the most popular text editors available for OS X, but the second version has been “on the way” for so long that many considered it abandonware. It turns out they were not far off the mark. Recently, MacroMates released the source code for TextMate 2 under the GPL 3 license on GitHub. Show More Summary
Google Takes Chrome Experiments Into the Mobile Arena
If you've never seen it, it's worth taking a look at Google's "Chrome Experiments" site, which functions as a kind of sandbox for showing off what web technologies such as HTML5, Canvas and WebGL can do. Some of the experiments are quite flashy, such as this WebGL water simulation, and this graph drawing experiment. Show More Summary
Firefox 15's Pre-Release Version Features a Flexible Debugger
True to its relatively new rapid release cycle for the Firefox browser, Mozilla has moved swiftly to deliver Firefox 15 to the early pre-release Aurora channel, where testers can begin tinkering with it now. Among many improvements, Firefox 15 includes an overhauled, built-in debugger for tracking down problems in JavaScript code. Show More Summary
New Defensive Patent License (DPL) Seeks a Way Around Patent Hairballs
The new Defensive Patent License (DPL), created by a couple of U.C. Berkeley law professors, is already generating lots of discussion only days after its introduction. Both Ars Technica and Boing Boing are kicking the tires on the newly...Show More Summary
Android App Player for PCs Out in First Beta Version
When the Android mobile OS (which isn't very old) was in its infancy, many critics expressed concerns that Apple had an insurmountable advantage with its App Store, and that the sheer number of available apps for the iPhone would ensure its dominance. Show More Summary
Chromium OS Desktop Shell Eschews Google's Cloud-Only Mantra
Ever since Google started working on its Chrome OS operating system, it has had a pronounced focus on allowing users to only work with cloud-based data and applications. This has drawn criticism from many users, and some from us here at OStatic, as seen in this post. Show More Summary
The Renaissance is Here for Translation Technologies
For a couple of years now, translation technology has been getting much better than it ever was before, and open source and proprietary systems are leading the way. This technology, of course, has been dreamed of as working fluidly for years, but was always plagued by high error rates and other problems. Show More Summary
Mark Shuttleworth Weighs In On Ubuntu 12.04
Last week, we covered the release of the first beta version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS--a major new upgrade to the operating system. Since then, OStatic readers working with the new beta have weighed in with mostly positive comments. "I have...Show More Summary
Etc: Mozilla has launched the Firefox Flicks competition, a video contest in which participants will make short movies that promote the open source browser. To get your creative juices going, Mozilla published its own video, a hilarious Twilight parody wi
Mozilla has launched the Firefox Flicks competition, a video contest in which participants will make short movies that promote the open source browser. To get your creative juices going, Mozilla published its own video, a hilarious Twilight parody with the Firefox mascot. Read More: Firefox Flicks, Twilight parody Read the comments on this post
Canonical is Demonstrating Ubuntu TV at Mobile World Congress
At the CES show in Las Vegas in January, Canonical showed off Ubuntu TV, as we reported here. It's a brand new interface that integrates television and movie content on an open source platform that Canonical hopes will win developers over. Show More Summary
Ubuntu for Android to Star at Mobile World Congress
According to Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical is moving quickly ahead with its plans to bring Ubuntu to platforms going well beyond just desktop computers. In his latest blog post, Shuttleworth notes: "We’ll show Ubuntu neatly integrated into Android at Mobile World Congress next week. Show More Summary
