Picasa Google has released Picasa for Linux, and even provides a .deb for Ubuntu. Installing it is as easy as downloading the archive from the above link, and typing the following in a terminal: sudo dpkg -i /home/erlends/picasa_2.2.2820-5_i386.deb It contains a copy of Wine and Gecko, so it comes at 21M, but it looks just [...]
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Police act on German file-sharing
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Police act on German file-sharing > Police in Germany have charged 3,500 users of a file-sharing network in the biggest single action against the illegal distribution of music online. > The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) – the record industry’s global body – said each could face five [...]
Industry group says software piracy down in China and Russia
USATODAY.com – Industry group says software piracy down in China and Russia > WASHINGTON ââ¬â Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to $34 billion. > The Business Software Alliance [...]
Red Hat: Java Linux license does not go far enough
Red Hat: Java Linux license does not go far enough | The Register > Sun Microsystems’ new GNU/Linux-friendly Java license does not go far enough for Red Hat. It says Sun should have open-sourced Java instead. > Brian Stevens, Red Hat CTO, told The Register Sun should open-source its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) (which is [...]
RIAA leaning on Universities
Recording Industry Association of America > WASHINGTON ââ¬â As part of the entertainment industryââ¬â¢s efforts to address the ongoing theft of music and movies online by college students, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today announced a systematic program to identify and curtail campus Local Area [...]
Undo Software announces UndoDB
Undo Software announces UndoDB > Undo Software today unveiled UndoDB — the first bidirectional debugger for compiled programs. > A bidirectional debugger allows programmers to run a program backwards in time as well as forwards. The program can be stepped back line-by-line, or rewound to any point in its history. Furthermore, programmers can play the [...]
TT => ClockingIT
My wife came up with a new name last week, and now we have the new domain and a new portal in place. Have a looksee at it here. Feel free to try it out as well, it’s free to use and there are no strings attached. Over the weekend, I implemented commenting on tasks [...]
Vim 7 Released
My editor of choice for quick edits, Vim, released version 7 yesterday. Go grab it at vim.org.
TimeTrack v0.92 – Easy and free Project Management / Time Tracking
We’re finally closing in on a ‘launchable’ version of my pet Project Manager / Time Tracker. I’ve cleaned up the look quite a bit, and implemented a frontpage design my wife came up with. It’s actually quite usable, and we’ve been using it to keep track of a few projects at work with quite a [...]
Canadian Music Creators Coalition
Canadian Music Creators Coalition: A New Voice > We are a growing coalition of Canadian music creators who share the common goal of having our voices heard about the laws and policies that affect our livelihoods. We are the people who actually create Canadian music. Without us, there would be no music for copyright laws [...]