One of the most popular posts on this blog is my instructions on how to upload to Flickr from Picassa, Google’s excellent image management application. Looks like my hack is no longer relevant (thank goodness) as a Flickr upload plugin for Picasa is now available!
Simon Willison offers a list of Six cool things you can build with OpenID. There sure is a lot of real positive buzz with regards to OpenID. I am really looking forward to being able to use my OpenID account with more and more services. I currently have way to many proprietary accounts and way to many web sites. Having a unified identity that I can use at multiple sites is very appealing.
VideoLAN Player has just been updated to version 0.8.6. A couple of very cool features have been added like codec support for Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video, a Fullscreen controller and if your a Mac user, it now supports the Apple Remote. VLC is the only video player I use. It pretty much plays anything I can throw at it and it is free and open source!
activeCollab is a free open source project management and collaboration tool. Like a Basecamp open source app, this web-based application is very similar to 37 Signal’s Basecamp project management tool, but instead of a hosted service, activeCollab is an application you download and install on your web server. The tool requires PHP and MySQL, so should be easy to install on most hosting packages.
EasyEclipse is your one stop shop for many distributions of the popular open-source development IDE. The distributions are custom packaged with plugins that will allow you to work on a variety of programming projects.
This one is a bit old, but in the event that you missed it, you should really check out Measure Map’s open-source Date Slider. The slider is a Flash component that allows you to select a range of dates and present nice summary data based on the date range. Measure Map is a slick web-based analyitics application that is easy to install on virtually any blog.
Suso Technology Services is offering this great SSH Tutorial for any operating system that supports OpenSSH. SSH (or Secure Shell) allows you to securely connect to your computer over a TCP/IP connection and run commands on the remote computer using a command prompt or terminal window. You can even use SSH to transfer files from one computer to the other. SSH is truely a powerful and interesting technology to learn.
The Songbird open-source media player that is built using Firefox technology and XUL Runner is now available in a early beta release. The Songbird site is pretty overloaded right now, so if you’re interested in checking out this new player, you can find it a couple of mirrors (here and here). What makes Songbird different from other media players is that it promises to free you from connecting to one locked store full of DRMmed goods and instead it will let you connect to any and all available music (and video) on the internet.
Dan Benjamin has posted a very complete tutorial on Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger. Recognizing this great tutorial, Newby on Rails did Dan one better, and turned his tutorial into a simple shell script that lets you intall the combination of Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL using a single command!
Don’t want to shell out your hard earned cash on Norton Ghost or Partition Magic? You can learn how to nixCraft: Resize windows Partition with Open Source Software using a Linux Live CD called Knoppix. Of course before you resize your partition using commmercial or open-source software, make sure you have a good backup!
