Recent Posts Tagged With 'open source'

• Novell removed all GPL Code from MonoDevelop

  Posted on Friday December 25th, 2009 at 08:02 in Microsoft, novell, open source, moonlight, silverlight

  Novell has removed all GPL code as though its not acceptable from MonoDevelop. From Miguel de Icaza’s blog: “MonoDevelop code is now LGPLv2 and MIT X11 licensed. We have removed all of the GPL code, allowing addins to use Apache, MS-PL c...

• “namebench” open source DNS benchmark utility

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 18:16 in internet, google, domain, tools, open source, dns, google code

  Google's ongoing effort to make the web faster, and a recent 20% project has led to a very useful Domain Name Server (DNS) benchmarking tool called “NameBench,” that analyze the sites that you visit using your browser's cache, and test r...

• Paint.NET 3.5 with Windows 7 DirectWrite and new UI changes Released

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 06:41 in Photography, graphics, Microsoft, softwares, open source, operating system, windows 7

  Paint.NET 3.5 utilizes DirectWrite in Windows 7 to render text (instead of GDI). DirectWrite is one of new additions to DirectX family of APIs in Windows 7 and enables better readability, adds support for a large variety of languages and scripts, an...

• Yahoo! open sources ‘Traffic Server’; rolls out update to Distribution of Hadoop

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 08:56 in web hosting, softwares, tools, open source, web services, apache, Yahoo!, web designing

  Yahoo! announced of open sourcing “Traffic Server” code via Apache Software Foundation, and an update to Distribution of Hadoop. “With 600 million unique visits pm, Yahoo sees a large amount of traffic to its sites. In order to mai...

• Multitouch with ’scripty2 & Starlight browser’ demos & tests

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 08:40 in apple, technology, Nokia, development, scripts, iphone, scripting, mobile phone, open source, safari, browser, api

  Thomas Fuchs has been working past year with Nokia on their multi-touch API for Qt/WebKit: “Starlight browser,” a open source Qt port of WebKit, and they’re working with Mozilla on specifications. “If you’ve Windows 7 M...

• Android 1.6 (Donut) adds ‘TalkBack’ screenreader and more

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 10:13 in google, open source, features, mobile os, tts, google android

  Google Android 1.6 (aka Donut), introduces accessibility features designed to make Android apps more widely usable by blind and low-vision users. In brief, 1.6 includes a built-in screenreader and text-to-speech (TTS) engine which make it possi...

• Stressful Application Test (stressapptest) by Google – Hardware components tool

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 09:09 in google, tools, open source

  Google have released Stressful Application Test (or stressapptest), a hardware test used at Google to test a large number of components in a machine. The test tries to maximize random traffic to memory from processor and disks with the inte...