What is the economics behind FOSS?

August 24th, 2008 honey Posted in Blogroll, How to, Linux, open source No Comments »

How does one earn money from FOSS

I am a part of Indian Linux User Group Delhi (ILUG-D) and yesterday we got a question mail on the ilug-d mailing list from abhishek jain asking “where does the money comes from in FOSS?”.He ask that “What is the economics behind FOSS? How can one earn substantial money through FOSS?.I would like the through the solid reply of the mail from Raj Mathur.

1. Why do people work with FOSS?

Raj says:its pretty simple, People work with FOSS because Read the rest of this entry »

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Android Demo after making applications

August 19th, 2008 honey Posted in Full Download's, How to, MOBILESOFT, PDA, android, google, open source No Comments »

In my last post on android how to build an Android applications in 5 min i described about making easy application on android SDK.Now here in this post i would like to introduced you with the Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz of google , discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.

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How to build an Android applications in 5 min

August 17th, 2008 honey Posted in Full Download's, How to, PDA, Reviews, android, google, open source, youtube 1 Comment »

http://code.google.com/android/images/logo_android.gifRecently i’m walking through the a demo video by Dan Morrill who builds a simple application on the Android platform.He is a member of google developer program and explain the following thing in the first cut of making applications for android

It is very easy to builds applications for android
Application are developed using android sdk (Download the SDK )

How to make a simple application for android ?

  1. Go to SDK under the menu of file>project>android project.
  2. Decide the details of application like Package name /Activity name / Application name. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 20 wordpress plugins that you can’t miss

August 11th, 2008 honey Posted in Full Download's, Reviews, blogging, open source, plugins, wordpress 7 Comments »

Top 20 wordpress plugins that you don’t missPlugins are the main advantage of wordpress and the only reason on which wordpress is growing up.It have vast space for developers and designers.Today i want to disclosed the following top wordpress plugins that i used for my blog

  1. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.
  2. All in One SEO Pack Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. By Michael Torbert.
  3. Category Cloud Widget Adds a sidebar widget to display the categories as a tag cloud. By Lee Kelleher.
  4. cformsII - contact form cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 10 open source micro blogging services

August 9th, 2008 honey Posted in Designs, PDA, Social Networking, Top Sites, blogging, microblogging, open source, twitter 3 Comments »

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2747920444_ce6dbfba16.jpg?v=0We must be related to new generation of blog aka micro blogging.Twitter is evolved as one of the favorite one now a days.Even me also spend almost whole day with twitter(online/offline). Analyzing the popularity of these services, developers from all over the world are digging their skills over this arena.Their are large amount of service and some of the open source micro blogging services are also gaining popularity.These are in different languages.For e.g. Twoorl is an open source Twitter clone written in Erlang using the ErlyWeb framework.

Anyway are you done with the above crap that i write,if not and want to explore about 10 best micro blogging services then please drag your eye on the below list Read the rest of this entry »

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Paint.Net a free Photoshop alternative

August 7th, 2008 honey Posted in Designs, Full Download's, Microsoft, Reviews, Stuff, open source No Comments »

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2738690232_46b05e7fa8_m.jpgWe all need a light weight photo editing applications that can easily load in all low level systems and have most of the common features,effects,layers, and other important options.I found a application named Paint.Net which is free and having beautiful options that we commonly found on Photoshop.Unlike Photoshop Paint.Net is free and easy to load in the system.It is based on the .net framework and developed by the students of a college under Microsoft.

Details About Paint.Net - Paint.NET is an awesome free image and photo editing software. It have a beautiful and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools just as we use in Photoshop. Read the rest of this entry »

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