Results tagged “free software” from SweetFriday

PHP Status is a PHP5-based web service status board website. It displays the status of whatever service you add to the system on a nice little dashboard-style website. Status boards are used by Google, Amazon, and other SaaS (Software as a Service) companies to let customers and clients know which services are up, down or experiencing difficulties.

Click here to view a demo.

Yesterday I was looking at a listing of updates for free software projects. I commented that the package moe could be used as a replacement for nano or zile, that is, when you need to quickly edit files from the command-line.

So today I'm giving it a go. I downloaded moe via the GNU project's FTP server and installed it. The compilation was insanely fast, I think it took less than 10 seconds to get it all built and installed.

Free Software Supporter is a newsletter run by the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and in it they have a section announcing a few software releases from the GNU project. However, they do not seem to provide any description of the projects aside from their name and version.

I've become interested in infographics, those fancy diagrams and charts and illustrations/visualizations of data that make them stick in your mind more easily. Why settle for an ugly chart when you can just adjust the fonts and colours a bit and get something sweeter looking.

The National Film Board of Canada has decided to put up hundreds of its films online. Bravo! Excellent! Thunderous applause! However, there is a dark side to this. The films can only be viewed by streaming them which means that Adobe's Flash is in use. If you, like me, cannot properly view Flash files or wish to watch the movies later on while out in the woods with a laptop but no internet connection, you are out of luck.