Archive for the 'Open Source' Category

Show #89 Gear Media Tech, Integrity, Meander, Colloquy

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Gear Media Tech class, Google Part 16 with Google Bookmarks from google.com/bookmarks, Google free in-home wireless broadband from google.com/tisp, and Gmail Paper at mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html. Integrity to check weblinks from peacockmedia.co.uk and Meander to measure map paths from meander.macpaq.com, Colloquy IRC chat client from colloquy.info. Xmenu menu bar app to bring back an OS9 feature from devon-technologies.com/products/freeware, and Linux commercial from novell.com/linux/meetlinux.

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Show #88 @Podder, Levelstar, Meebo, Launchy, PasswordVault

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Pre-Gear Media Tech excitement, CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in Los Angeles with Susan Gerhart of apodder.org & her friend Harold, Icon PDA for the blind from levelstar.com, bookshare.org text books for the blind, meebo.com to chat without a client, exhaust systems explained at hdabob.com, open source Krank game from krank.sourceforge.net, panoramio.com to see pictures of the world in Google Earth, Quicksilver from quicksilver.blacktree.com for the Mac and Launchy for Windows from launchy.net. iForgot from largemouthsoftware.com, Bart’s PasswordVault2Go Review from Bart - PasswordVault is from lavasoftware.com, no more Google Product reviews, Open Source Food from opensourcefood.com.

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Show #85 New camera, KIT, Xee, ChocoFlop, NetNewsWire beta

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

New camera (Nikon D40), Errata in the forums, added Podzinger search to the website, HDA Bob’s Element Modification Movie, KIT for organizing your life from reinventedsoftware.com, Blender for 3D modeling from blender.org, freeware image viewer called Xee, from wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps, and a new beta shareware image editor called Chocoflop from chocoflop.com. NetNewsWire 3 pre beta review from newsgator.com by Bart Busschots, and FreeRuler for measuring things onscreen at pascal.com/software/freeruler.

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Show #84 Sorry Grant, Perian, Songbird, Google Personalized Search

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Use Quicktime for AVI files with perian.org, HDA Bob’s cousin Patrick’s Drawings, nowonder.com or macosx.com to get or give help to other Mac folks, Vdownloader to convert flash to iPod from softpedia.com, apology to my brother Grant, Amazon Mechanical Turk from mturk.com if you want to work for the machine. Google Part 13 with Google Ride Finder at labs.google.com/ridefinder and Google Personalized Search at google.com/psearch. Songbird instead of iTunes from songbirdnest.com, and Shapeshifter unsanity.com.

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Show #82 It Doesn’t Run on Safari

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

New (hopefully spam-free) forums at podfeet.com/forums_bbpress using bbpress from bbpress.org and Akismet spam protection from akismet.com. Google Part 11: Google Notebook atgoogle.com/notebook, Google Mars at google.com/mars, Google Page Creator from pages.google.com, Google Web Accelerator from webaccelerator.google.com, WengoVisio from wengovisio.com, Yahoo! Mail Beta from mail.yahoo.com, HDA Bob tells about the cars he’s owned and explains Fuel Injection at hdabob.com, and iStatNano from islayer.com makes a comeback.

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Show #81 JAlbum, Google Transit/Talk/Trends, Accessible Money, iPhotoBuddy

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Crossover from codeweavers.com, JAlbum from jalbum.net, hdabob.com to see a transmission replacement in my driveway, Feeder from reinventedsoftware.com. Google Part 10 with Google Transit at www.google.com/transit, Google Talk at google.com/talk, Google Music Trends at google.com/trends/music, Google Trends at google.com/trends, Google Trends Chinese , Google Related Links at google.com/relatedlinks. Petition for Accessible Money at money4all.info sent to me by Darrel Shandrow of the blindaccessjournal, iPhoto Buddy from iphotobuddy.com, AdiumX goes 1.0 at adiumx.com, and the end of the NosillaCast Forums.

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Show #78 Waxing, BSD icon explained, GIMPshop

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Changes to the blog naming convention, waxing Mari’s car, Listener Matt explains the BSD daemon, GIMPshop from plasticbugs.com, HDA Bob’s Interesting Travel Stories, Fusion Beta with Boot Camp drivers, SmallImage from iconus.ch/fabien/smallimage2. Google Products Part 7 - Google Video from video.google.com, Google Code Search from google.com/codesearch, Google Reader from google.com/reader, and Accessible Search from labs.google.com/accessible.

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Show #77 Yawning, HDA Bob, VMware Fusion

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

New theme finally arrives, courtesy of Bart plus Ryan’s lovely logo from graphicforce.net, listener Steve catches me yawning, Imagecaster clarification, Aardvark extension for Firefox from addons.mozilla.org/firefox, Google’s unit conversions go off line, Google Guide from Nancy Blachman at googleguide.com, HDA Bob’s Mobile Service at hdabob.com, Google Analytics tells all about screen resolution, Napier’s Bones for doing multiplication, Bart’s blog at bartbusschots.ie/blog and Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies at irishastronomy.org. Part 6 of Google Products - Google Scholar at scholar.google.com and Google Specialized Searches (US Gov’t at google.com/ig/usgov, Linux at google.com/linux, BSD at google.com/bsd, and Microsoft at http://www.google.com/microsoft.html). First full review of VMware’s Beta Fusion from vmware.com/.

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NosillaCast 12/03/2006 Show #72

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Pando sent me a shirt, Soundflower and Soundflower from cycling74.com/downloads/soundflower let me down, how to make a 96 picture poster from Jim Heid at macilife.com, Free Fractal Maker from apophysis.org along with some beautiful fractal images at the url is too long to repeat, Soundsource from rogueamoeba.com/freebies, cool flash clocks beeks.eu/Screensaver.htm, Free Cell phone services from David Pogue, start of a series on Google tools, including finance.google.com, blogsearch.google.com, and books.google.com. A snotty Zune review, Pathway for wiki search at pathway.screenager.be.

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NosillaCast 11/26/2006 Show #71

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Thanksgiving, why my mom is cool, thankfulness for my amazing internet friends, corrections from last week, am I repeating myself?, the gruesome story of my move of Podfeet from VizaWeb to Go Daddy including the tools for phpmyadmin, phpbb, Wordpress, TextWrangler from barebones.com, Skype, Scooby Doo voice, how to do a redirect, don’t forget your data, and Bart’s amazing gift of time to me. Review of Switch from nch.com.au/switch, BootCamp vs. Parallels, and Noah’s 6 years of photos.

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