Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop note-taking application for personal information management. Its interface is a notepad with a Wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Words in the note body that match existing note titles automatically become hyperlinks, making it simple to construct a personal wiki.
Below is an example. “Book 1″ is...
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Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It is a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general.
The most common document formats today are Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats. If a user received a Word, Excel or...
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New sub-projects will strengthen growing Mylyn ecosystem
Ottawa, Canada – March 8, 2010 - The Eclipse Foundation today announced new initiatives to support the ongoing growth of the Eclipse Mylyn ecosystem. The open source Mylyn project is a widely extended framework for integrating task and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools...
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A few days after the release of phpBB 3.0.7, phpBB released 3.0.7-PL1 to address a security issue which was introduced in 3.0.7, the issue wasn’t noticed during testing and has only surfaced a week after the release of 3.0.7.
phpBB advices to all who already have updated to 3.0.7 that it is of critical ...
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The phpBB Support Toolkit (STK) is a package of tools to diagnose and fix common support-related issues with phpBB, it provides a second “Administration Control Panel” that can be used to recover various part of a corrupted phpBB 3.0.x installation or to solve commonly encountered problems with the software.
phpBB announced the availability of the...
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Sylpheed is an open source e-mail and news client licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses GTK+.
The new stable version Sylpheed 3.0 (3.0-win32) has been released on 24 Feburary 2010,...
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phpBB, a widely used open source bulletin Board or forum project, released a new version. phpBB 3.0.7 is a maintenance release fixing a number of a bugs as well as improving on usability and performance.
The new version 3.0.7 was released on Feb 28, 2010, phpBB urges users to update to the new installation as...
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According to VLC News, VLC issued a Security Advisory that “Clam AntiVirus incorrectly claims that the x86 SSE2-accelerated I:4:2:2 chroma conversion plugin as being a computer trojan. This affects builds of VLC media player with recent versions of the MingW compilation toolchain.”
This may make copying, installing and/or using of VLC media player or applications...
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FlightGear Flight Simulator is a free open-source multi-platform flight simulator. FlightGear 2.0.0 has new features such as wildfire when your plane crashes and water textures that include reflections from objects such as the sun. A more dynamic world is being developed which has steam trains and cars...
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Paint.NET v3.5.4 is available for Download, has just been released on February 25th, 2010
Paint.NET is a freeware image and photo editing software developed on the .NET Framework for computers that run on Microsoft Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety...
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