11 posts tagged with software
Microsoft, Red Hat, and South Africa’s OS strategy
Not even a week after Jason Matusow, Microsoft Director of Corporate Standards, wrote on his blog that South Africans don’t understand Open Source Software or how to benefit from it, Linux vendor Red Hat have announced that they’re to open an office in South Africa. Via Tectonic:
Starting Monday Red Hat will have an SA-based country manager who
Amazon.com open a software development centre in Cape Town
Online retailer Amazon.com has opened a software development centre in Cape Town, a statement issued by the company said on Tuesday. The centre will create innovative web services and help software developers build innovative applications using Amazon technology.
It is the third centre of its kind in the world, with the other two in Scotland and India.
Chris Pinkham, managing director … view full post
How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks
I was ranting about Blogger’s permalink URIs a while ago. Relating to that, I just picked up on this post: ‘How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks’ over at mpt, which in turn is inspired by Julian Missig. But as always, nobody says is better than the Mozilla UI man himself. Worth reading if … view full post
PC World’s 21st World Class Awards winners
PC World, the most widely-read technology or business magazine, unveiled the winners of its 21st World Class Awards earlier this week. Editors selected 60 winners based on Performance, Value, Consistency, and Innovation.
Among the winners are Mozilla 1.3 (Best Web Browser), Qualcomm Eudora 5.2 (Best E-Mail Software) and Cerulean Studios Trillian Pro (Best IM Software). … view full post
Blorp.com
Last update for the morning and before I go to bed. Just happened onto the website of Justin Frankel – the guy who created WinAMP and founder of AOL-subsidary Nullsoft, Inc. From there I found myself at nullsoft.com downloading Beep – “an … view full post
warrenski-bot
I just had the following conversation with warrenski-bot:
bot: Hi there!
me: Hi! My name is coda
bot: Hello there. Welcome to my chat room, coda .
me: do you think I am too condescending?
bot: I think a lot of people are.
me: like who?
bot: Santa Claus.
me: anyone else?
bot: There could be a few others.
me: do you think that’s a bad thing?
bot: “There
The Matrix has you
Currently one of the most active projects (#4) at SourceForge, and which I’ll bet is just itching to be blogged to death, is a neat little Windows desktop enhancement tool called ZMatrix:
…which creates the streaming character effect out of ‘The Matrix‘ on your desktop. The
Minotaur
Introducing Minotaur, a project to create a stand-alone mail client based on the Mozilla suite’s Mail & Newsgroups component.
Read the full release and check out the mozilla.org project page – they desperately need contributors with UI experience to build a decent theme, … view full post
Software Lifecycle
Software doesn’t just appear on the shelves by magic. That program shink-wrapped inside the box along with the indecipherable manual and 12-paragraph disclaimer notice actually came to you by way of an elaborate path, through the most rigid quality control on the planet. Here, shared for the first time with the general public, are the inside details of the program … view full post
GUI inspiration
Winamp has never looked so good, and neither has Linux – GNOME 2 is the newest version of the complete, free and easy-to-use Linux desktop environment.