In the spirit of Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier’s post over on Linux.com, I thought I would craft my list of 10 important open source desktop applications of the last year. Now I know that not every Gear Diary reader is a huge Open Source fan or follower, but these are projects to watch in the coming [...]
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MWC: AppUp, MeeGo, Open Source, and Tablets
The partnership between Nokia and Microsoft that was announced the other day has caused some speculation that the Intel powered AppUp store in general, and the MeeGo in particular might be the losers in this story. Helena and I spoke with Peter Biddle, General Manager to AppUp Products and Services, and he said that despite [...]
Review: The Wikireader
A while back the OpenMoko project created the goal of bringing out a Linux based smartphone called the Freerunner. Then Google brought out what became the most successful Linux based operating system of all time, Android. Well, needless to say, the writing was on the wall. The clunky OpenMoko OS, with the behind the times [...]
Wikireader: Now You Can Carry 33,000 Books Too!
OpenMoko’s Wikireader project has let you carry the entire contents of Wikipedia in the palm of your hand for about a year now. While the device’s design isn’t as awe inspiring as the NookColor or Kindle, it still is an interesting idea. Thankfully the developers have been hard at work and now have released a great update [...]
Linux Netbook Review: ZaReason Terra HD Netbook
It’s been a couple of years since I reviewed a laptop from ZaReason, the UltraLap SR. Now I’m reviewing something a bit smaller — the ZaReason Terra HD. ZaReason is a different type computer company; every single computer they sell runs Linux, and they only ship Linux (or no operating system at all) on all [...]
Droid X Gets the Lockdown: Does it Matter?
There’s been a bunch of stuff going around the web about the Droid X and the fact that it likely will not be able to run custom ROMS and may even be hard to root. I’ll try to describe, in layman’s terms, what this may mean to a prospective Droid X buyer. What is this [...]
Preview: Southeast LinuxFest 2010
Up until this year, I had only attended the Ohio LinuxFest being lucky enough to live in its host city of Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio LinuxFest is an awesome community driven event that amazes me every year it’s run. However, in 2010, I will be attending both the Ohio LinuxFest and the second year of [...]
Qi Hardware’s Ben NanoNote: A Completely Open Source Pocket Computer
Imagine not only building your own computer, but making the boards yourself. Yeah, it’s not something the common person would do, but Qi Hardware’s Ben NanoNote is open in a way most hardware isn’t. This is a similar model to the OpenMoko Freerunner and has been started by former members of the OpenMoko team. Not [...]
XBMC Project Releases Version 9.11 ‘Camelot’ Xbox Media Center
XBMC is a full screen media center program similar to Apple’s Front Row, Windows Media Center, and Moovida. XBMC started out running on hacked versions of the original Xbox hardware. However, as the years have progressed and the original target, the first generation Xbox got old, the project ported the interface to Linux, Windows, OSX and [...]
Peeking at Micro Innvations USB Hub Concepts
Some of you may recognize the name Joe Born from the company Neuros, whose open source products we’ve been reviewing and talking positively about for years. What you may not know is that Joe also founded the company Digital Innovations over ten years ago. According to him, he hasn’t been “very active in it since [...]
Neuros planning for the OSD3
I follow Joe Born(@joeborn) and Neuros Technology(@neurostech) on twitter and I read his blog and generally love Neuros Technology as a company. They stand behind their products. They also run open source software on their devices and have quite a community behind their products. I also own a OSD and one of their original products, [...]
Moovida and Jamendo: Perfect Together
Moovida is a media center with a smooth and slick interface, and I really liked it when I reviewed it a couple weeks ago. Moovida now has a plugin for Jamendo, the music 2.0 platform with all of their music under the Creative Commons umbrella of licenses. The interface is strictly a streaming service for [...]
Neuros.TV Site Adds User Contributions to the Neuros Link
For those who don’t know, the primary part of the Neuros Link is the Neuros.TV website that helps you find content on your Neuros Link from the web. Well, Joe has let me know that you are not just stuck with whatever Neuros and their hackers will give you. Now if you know of a [...]
Neuros Link: Netflix Bounty Claimed!
Neuros has long offered bounties on different development projects that enhance their products; one I have been semi excited for is Netflix Streaming. Well, sundevil98 has managed to get it working on the Link according to Joe. He did it by installing Mediamall’s Playon software on top of XBMC. The next version of the software [...]
Neuros Link Bounties Posted and More
Joe Born has posted the first bounties for the Neuros Link. The first bounty is $2500 for getting Netflix working directly on the Neuros Link, or $500 when working through a intermediary PC. This bounty has some stipulations: The programmer must beat Boxee, Ubuntu or Netflix themselves with the functionality. All of these people are [...]
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