Hundreds of different solutions exist to reduce the resolution of photos. These solutions are available as software programs but also online services. Quality is usually not an issue when reducing the resolution of a photo. It does becomes problematic on the other hand to find a solid computer program to enlarge photos. Enlarging photos meaning [...]
Doc Update Lists Document Updates
Doc Update is a brand new software program that has been uploaded to Sourceforge recently. The Open Source tool can be used to display document updates not only from the active user account but also from other user accounts of the operating system. It is not totally clear how these information are fetched and if [...]
Download and install Ubuntu faster with a Minimal CD
I recently found the need to install Ubuntu on a machine with a poor CD drive (and no USB ports) that could not read large amounts of data, but could manage to read smaller amounts of data. As such, the machine could not read the 700MB but could read smaller amounts, like 10MB.
I found a [...]
Use Twitter As a Reminder Service
You are usually using Twitter day in day out if you are a Twitter fan(atic). And when you thought you reached the limit with what you can do a new service pops up that allows you to save and send reminders using the messaging service. Remind Me About is basically an Open Source php script [...]
Create Website Tours With Virtual Tour Software Amberjack
Virtual tours can be a very effective way of guiding website visitors who are new to the site around. This can help them understand the offerings and navigation of a website and make them feel more at ease in the beginning. Not every website needs virtual tours although they can be used for different purposes. [...]
A standard compliant web browser and editor: Amaya
Some web browsers don’t fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst some choose to ignore these, some are devoted to the following of these standards.
Sticking to standards can therefore lead to issues with certain [...]
VLC Media Player 1.0 Released
The VideoLan team today announced the release of version 1.0.0 of their popular media player VLC Media Player. The major release introduces many few features, formats and codecs to VLC and fixes a high number of bugs that were present in previous versions of the media player.
The changelog lists all of the changes and additions [...]
