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| Last.fm - Personal Streaming Radio Station |
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| posted in [ Audio ] by JJan on Wed, Mar 11 @ 01:08 AM |
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In the previous century, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel were running an online record label whose mission was to get independent music out to the people who wanted to hear it. A few years later, university student Richard Jones started tracking what he and his friends were listening to on their computers with a project he called Audioscrobbler. Last.fm brought these ideas and desires together, letting people choose the music themselves and making music culture more democratic: Listening to music how you want to, when you want to, without a middle man making your decisions for you. |
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A link checker is a tool which scans a website (or other content containing hyperlinks) for broken hyperlinks. Many commercial and/or openly available tools exist for this, but a well known and reliable online service is... |
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| Ubuntu - GNU/Linux distribution |
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| posted in [ Linux ] by JJan on Mon, Mar 09 @ 09:38 PM |
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Ubuntu is a very complete and community developed Debian GNU/Linux-based operating system that is gaining popularity amongst Linux users and people making the switch from closed source operating systems. It can be fitted for laptops, desktops and servers and contains a large list of application sources. It contains all common software, web browsers, office applications suitable for presentations, text editing and spreadsheets, email, instant messaging and much more. |
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| Internet Archive Way Back Machine |
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The Internet Archive Way Back Machine is a (non-profit) service that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. Since 1999 more well-rounded collections were included, nowadays the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. |
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| Tor - Free Anonymity Online Software/Network |
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Tor is free software and an open network designed to counter network surveillance. If you feel traffic analysis could lead to problems for you, regarding your personal freedom and privacy, or confidential business activities and relationships, or any other authority spying on you, this might be a project to look into. |
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| Apache Lucene - Open Source Search Engine |
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| posted in [ Search ] by JJan on Thu, Mar 05 @ 05:28 PM |
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Apache Lucene is an open source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written in Java. It is a technology suitable for applications that require full-text search, especially cross-platform. |
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| FreeSoftwareShop Statusupdate |
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Many changes to the system this week, time for an update on our progress. |
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| Android - Open Source Phone OS |
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Android is an open source operating system for phones, developed by the The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies. |
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| Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released |
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| posted in [ Linux ] by JJan on Thu, Mar 05 @ 02:31 AM |
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The Debian Project announced the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny") after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes four types of default desktop environments: KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE. Others can be added manually. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB. |
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| P4A - PHP For Applications |
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P4A (PHP For Applications) is a PHP RAD and object oriented PHP framework for building event-driven stateful web applications. It features tableless HTML, accesskey support, auto data type recognition, transparent AJAX, UTF-8, i18n/l10n, PEAR integration. |
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