HP to open source webOS. December 9, 2011
Posted by very in : Announcement, News, Tech , add a commentHP announced that it will contribute webOS to the open source community. The next best thing for HP and a much better fate for webOS.
Will we see new webOS hardwares from other manufacturers? I certainly hope so. HP and open source community must improve webOS architecture
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Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now an Open Source Project. October 27, 2011
Posted by very in : Announcement, Apple, iTunes, Music, News, Resources, Tech , add a commentApple Lossless Audio Codec is now Open Source Project as reported by many. It is available under Apache license.

At first I thought:
Apple Free LossLess Audio Codec (AFLAC)
Wait a minute, it sounds just like Aflac.
There is also FLAC Project.
Posted from Los Angeles, California, United States.
LibreOffice 3.3 is now available. January 25, 2011
Posted by very in : Announcement, Applications, Apps, Linux, Mac OS X, Media, News, Resources, Snow Leopard, Tech, Windows , add a commentLibreOffice, the spin-off to OpenOffice.org is now available for download.
LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.
From The Document Foundation Blog:
The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download
The Internet, January 25, 2011 – The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well over one hundred today.

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A Call To Arms……. VLC Needs Mac OS X Developers. December 16, 2009
Posted by 37prime in : Announcement, Applications, Apps, Leopard, Linux, Mac OS X, Media, Movies, News, Resources, Tech, Vista, Windows , add a comment
The news of possible end to VLC development for Mac OS X caused quite a stir today. Based the Forums post, at this point there are no active VLC developers for Mac OS X.
VLC is a multimedia player with supports for many audio and video format. It is also a required component for Handbrake feature to work.
Developers who can donate their time are desperately needed to keep this project going.
VLC 1.0.0 is Released. July 7, 2009
Posted by very in : Announcement, Applications, Apps, Entertainment, Leopard, Linux, Mac OS X, Media, Movies, Music, News, Resources, Snow Leopard, Tech, Vista, Windows , add a commentThe VideoLAN project has officially released VLC 1.0.0 codenamed Goldeneye. Download it now.
VLC 1.0.0 is a cross-platform media player, available for Linux, Mac, Windows and other Operating Systems.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list.
















