2006
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By Robin Monks on September 10, 2006
This new open source project is making a system to use PHP and P2P technology to link exchange lesser known sites and allow them to gain traffic, while using community p2p controls to maintain the network. Neat stuff! read more | digg story
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By Robin Monks on August 23, 2006
Do you like gallery tools such as Flickr, but want to control your photos, or get rid of any of their limits? Now you can have your own custom gallery using PHP, a script called Picy, and 5 minutes of your time! read more | digg story
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By Robin Monks on June 14, 2006
Linspire has been under fire lately when they announced that they were working on Freespire, which came in two versions (a free and a non-free one — that’s free as in freedom). In this interview, Kevin was asked not-so-easy questions about some of the most controversial topics. This is a must-read. read more | digg story
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By Robin Monks on June 1, 2006
Apparently, the settlement will be in more AdWords points. Google has yet to acknowledge this. A mirror of the class-action lawsuit document can be found at http://download.gamemaking.org/mozillaman_legalnotice.pdf . read more | digg story
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By Robin Monks on May 11, 2006
If you’re not sure if you should use Linux, or whether your hardware is supported, well, Knoppix will definitely help you make your mind up. And if you like it, you press a button and it installs itself as a Debian system. What more could you want? read more | digg story
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By Robin Monks on May 8, 2006
Find out the author’s personal arsenal of free software tools and utilities and add some to your list. Free software is a great resource, and it’s our duty to spread the word! read more | digg story
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By Robin Monks on May 1, 2006
Today a new version of Drupal, one of the best opensource Content Management Frameworks, has been released. Version 4.7 took more than a year to develop and includes many new features for the user, the site administrator and the Drupal coders (API’s). The new version rocks, try it yourself! read more | digg story
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By Robin Monks on April 17, 2006
U3 and USB Smart Drives are making it easier and easier to take not only your data, but your entire workspace with you wherever you go. But alas, there is trouble in paradise, read this article about how free/open source software is lagging behind that pack and what can be done about the problem, in [...]
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By Robin Monks on March 27, 2006
“Passwords are, without a doubt, the perferred method of online security by online blogs, portals, e-commerce sites and just about anything else. For the most part, this is a good system. But, like all security systems, there is a point of possible disclosure…” Read the whole story for more. read more | digg story
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By Robin Monks on March 1, 2006
“The Canadian ISP ‘ROGERS’ (one of the country’s largest) has started to kill all bittorrent traffic on their network, and even some P2P apps. Looks like it’s time to change to rival BELL. Heh, thank goodness for encrypted torrents But really though, they shouldn’t care what people do with their bandwidth, we are paying for [...]
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