Category Archives: Free Software

RE: Thoughts on flash

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Shane

I fully agree with Steve Jobs about the problems with flash. All of his points are correct but one of his points is very hypocritical. He complains about Flash being a proprietary technology when most of the apple platform is … Continue reading →

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The great standardization vs innovation battle

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Shane

Do standards hold us back? Its a good question to ask ourselves as people who work with technology, should we be always looking to innovate? First of all are all standards bad and the answer is a big no. Doing … Continue reading →

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iPad and the FSF

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Shane

Oh FSF why do you make me embarrassed? Really I saw the article on ars about them protesting and I just said to myself “they have protested yourselves into obsolescence”. The flaw is they are protesting for something free and … Continue reading →

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The importance of awesome

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Shane

Im going to plug a bunch of projects and stuff I like in this post so I hope you guys like it. Shot of jaq is bloody awesome. Well us ubuntu people are a little bit biased here because its … Continue reading →

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Gnome 3 world wide release parties

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Shane

At the last Gnome marketing meeting an interesting idea came up. That was to have a ubuntu loco style release party for Gnome 3 this fall. The proposal is here, im sure sponsors are welcome. I have to stress its … Continue reading →

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Debunking Gnome 3 myths

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Shane

Some people are slightly confused about what Gnome 3 actually is. The biggest myth is Gnome Shell == Gnome 3 Actually its very far from the truth, in fact there is a lot of work that has nothing to do … Continue reading →

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Lowering the programming barrier

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Shane

I love quickly and quidgets just for the simple reason they lower the barrier for potential programmers to join in and start easily. But it makes me think that gtk is getting old and its showing its oldness by not … Continue reading →

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Google chrome hidden but awesome feature

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Shane

Ok at the moment chrome does most of what firefox does at the moment but not much difference. I found a button in chrome that does something awesome. What that says is “Create application shotcuts”. No its not a funny … Continue reading →

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Oh OGG when will it be your time….?

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Shane

I’m an optimist, specifically for ubuntu and the open source/free software world. One thing that puzzles me is OGG Theora and Vorbis. We see Wikimedia (Wikipedia, wikidictonary…etc) using OGG technologies as well as mozilla, google and opera embracing it. It … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Netbook launcher Craziness

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Shane

I had an insane idea. I thought how about installing the Ubuntu netbook remix launcher and run it inside Gnome-Shell. It turns out that it looks awesome. I love it

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