In an earlier article we established that piracy of software is basically a given in today’s world where information is so easily shared and duplicated. We also established that no matter what DRM measures are implemented by commercial software developers, no matter how advanced or how draconian they are, someone’s always going to find a »
Google has changed our lives permanently, no one can deny it. The amount of innovation it brings to the table is almost dizzying. Just a decade ago, if someone told you that a company would offer street views, 5 GB of email storage, satellite pictures of the whole globe…etc you would have been laughed at. »
When the compositing capabilities of Spiftacity merged into the Metacity trunk, it caused a fair bit of stir among GNOME users. Included in version 2.21.5 of GNOME, though hidden from casual users, the compositing showed a lot of promise but remained just something to play around with. The recently released GNOME 2.24 includes the latest »
It shouldn’t be too much of a stretch to assume that a good portion of those whom read this blog are Linux users, and so are involved to varying degrees in what is commonly called the ‘Linux Community’. Anyone who’s been into the whole Linux thang for a while has probably noticed this; I haven’t »
I love Adobe Air! Applications like Twhirl and Woopra have become an important part of my daily computing arsenal. Over the past 6 month I have been running Adobe Air alpha which wasn’t exactly quirk-less. Twhirl never saved my passwords, never minimized to the panel, and the window always had a black shadow around it. »
This is a contribution post discussing 2008 Blog Action Day theme, “Poverty“. Imagine you are the minister of education of an impoverished country, with a limited budget to improve your schooling system. You realize the importance of computers in education, and also realize that failing to provide a proper IT infrastructure to your country’s youth »
People who either dabble or work in computing enough are probably used to the idea that some operating systems are better than others as creative platforms; Mac OSX generally seems to be the preferred place for video editing, thanks to the likes of Final Cut Pro. They’ve also got the fantastic GarageBand program for audio »
I am pleased to introduce to you a new contributor to Royal HeHe2-ness. Ian Mclean is an Australian Linux and Open Source Aficianado currently based in Romania. He is an amatuer web developer and a music artist in his spare time. Ian jumped on the Linux wagon in 2005 (about the same time as me). »
This is a guest post by Ian McLean, an Australian Linux and Open Source aficionado currently based in Romania. The Information Age: Where Everything Is Free I once was having a light conversation with a student friend of mine and told him about OpenOffice.org; I said that it’s free to get and use, it does »
