Posts Tagged ‘software’

Pinboard bookmarks for February 6th

Pinboard links for February 6th, syndicated automagically: We Need Copyright Reform, Not ACTA! | TorrentFreak – The internet is a great tool to alert politicians to all the dangers of this treaty, just as the internet was a tool to mobilize people against the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US. For any lobby to [...]

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Pinboard bookmarks for January 10th

Pinboard links for January 10th, syndicated automagically: Solar PV Monitoring System | OpenEnergyMonitor – Here is the documentation for a solar PV monitoring system that’s been developed as part of the OpenEnergyMonitor project. It’s based on Arduino and is fully open-source; hardware, firmware and web application. The system monitors both generation and consumption and gives [...]

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Pinboard bookmarks for December 7th

Pinboard links for December 7th, syndicated automagically: Bildung nach dem digitalen Klimawandel: Das Buch verdunstet in die Wolke – taz.de – Tatsächlich änderte sich dann in den Klassenzimmern aber gar nicht viel. Bis heute blieb es im Prinzip bei dem System, das sich Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zusammen mit der industriell-bürokratischen Organisation herausgebildet hatte: Der [...]

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Linux, ebooks and DRM (and CC-ed content), a short note

One of the reasons for 20 years of goodness – people collaborating to produce outstanding CC-ed content. See e.g. the PCLinuxOS magazine and – specifically for the Ubuntu Linux community – Full Circle magazine. Time to shout out it is for me, especially as they’re highlighting Calibre and other ebook software this time. Calibre is [...]

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Geeking around with hardware, plus some Android apps recommendations

Speaking of being good at being a beginner – I need to document and jot down the things I did this Wednesday night for relaxing. Yes, I spent half the night modding and messing around with my old and trusted Android Phone, an HTC Magic (aka Sapphire) 32B stuck at Android 1.6. Now it’s rooted, [...]

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Generating Chrome/ Chromium Browser Applications

So I switched back to Chrome (dev channel version) from Chromium for now – and one of the things missing is the “Create application shortcuts” menu entry. Indeed, the whole page menu got integrated into a single menu with the dev channel version. But that’s no problem, you just replace your existing application shortcut, i.e. [...]

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Future of Software and Open Source

Eine Woche nach dem Kongress stehen die Folien fast aller Vorträge der Open Source meets Business zum Download im PDF-Format bereit, ich werde die verfügbaren in den jeweiligen Posts verlinken. Zu den interessanten Slides von Vorträgen, die ich leider verpasst habe zählen u.a. die von Kim Polese von Spikesource zu “The Future of Software”, einmal [...]

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