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InMojo: Buy & Sell Open Source Hardware

MOin — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:01:22 +0000

Hardware enthusiasts who work on a variety of projects often have to build custom chips, equipment, and code to complete the required tasks. Such self-created custom hardware is called Open Source Hardware (OSHW) and can be sold to benefit others in their projects. If you are looking for a source to sell or buy OSHW then pay a visit to a site called InMojo.

InMojo is a wonderful community website for people looking to sell and buy OSHW. You can browse the hardware available on the site easily because it is sorted categorically. For each piece of hardware available on the site you can view the items sold by the designer, a sample video, a list of functions, a testimonial from a happy user, a list of licenses and documentation, shipping options, and community feedback. Sellers get attractive features such as attribution tracking, licensing, and marketing support.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you sell and buy OSHW.
Lets you browse hardware categorically.
Offers attribution tracking and marketing support to sellers.
Shows testimonials for products.
Similar tools: TinyPay and Dell Auction.
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Check out InMojo @ www.inmojo.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Lightworks: Lightweight Open Source Video Editing Software

Israel Nicolas — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:01:46 +0000

Free high quality software does not come often, especially in technologies like video editing. If you want to churn out professional work on your laptop, you are stuck with Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier. or Avid Video Premiere. Fortunately, the Lightworks project offers a lightweight, free and open source video editing software that offers the same feature set as what you get from programs that costs thousands of dollars.

Lightworks’ interface has an easy learning curve if you already know how existing video editors work. The features are too many to mention, but just know that anything a professional product can do, Lightworks can do it too, from effects, trimming, audio, and color-correction, to media management, and third-party support.

The best way to know if Lightworks works for you is to try it out. You will be surprised how it can replace your premium software. This desktop app is also built for speed, making it very usable even for the slowest PCs.

Lightworks is currently available as a public beta and you need to register an account to get it.

Features:

Open source project for video editors.
Serious alternative to premium software.
Works with minimally-spec’d PCs.
Included tools for power users including editing, trimming, effects, third=party plugins, and more.
Similar tools: VideoToolbox, VidToMP3, Anjo.to, BrushVideo, Kaltura, and BenderConverter.

Check out Lightworks @ www.lightworksbeta.com

Click2try: Test Open Source Apps In Your Brower

abhijeet — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:57:06 +0000

Click2Try is a unique website which allows you to test open source software in the browser itself so that you don’t go through the hassle of downloading and installing the software. It uses Java to run the apps and works on all modern browsers.

There are various software under different categories like business, education, linux etc which you can test. Registration is not required to try an app but if you want to save your sessions then you would need to sign up.

In the screenshot below, I am trying out WordPress 2.5 in the click2try interface within the browser.

Features

Try open source apps in the browser.
Quickly start without registering.
Currently the site lets you test around 50 desktop applications and 3 Linux distributions.
Saves time by eliminating the process of downloading and installing.

Check out Click2Try @ www.click2try.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

Teambox: Open Source Project Collaboration & Management

abhijeet — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:15:18 +0000

Teambox is a cool web based project management and collaboration tool which can be used to create unlimited projects for free. It has many cool features like in-built calendar, tasks, pages and project chat rooms, all within a really clean user interface. What separates it from other such tools is that it is completely open source and hence you could install it in your own server and customize the entire interface.

Features

Open source project tracking, management & collaboration tool.
Free to use. Create unlimited projects.
Clean and intuitive user interface.
Lost of features like in-built tasks, chat, calendars etc.
Install it in your own server and customize it.

Check out Teambox @ www.teambox.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

Osalt: Find Open Source Alternative to Commercial Software

Kaly — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:42:11 +0000

Few days ago we reviewed a site called AlternativeTo which lists alternative software to any Windows, Mac and Linux apps. Today we stumbled onto Osalt which is a similar website but the difference is that it lists open source alternatives to commercial software products.

To find alternatives you can search and browse site by categories such as business, communications, databases, multimedia, development, graphic applications… etc. When you select a category the site will list open source apps and also show you the top commercial apps with their open source counterparts. Furthermore you can see ratings and read comments for each open source application.

Feature:

Lists free open source alternative to commercial software.
Search and browse site by categories.
Shows you top commercial software and their open source counterpart for each category.
Check out rating and comments on open source apps.
Similar sites: AlternativeTo, Dooblet and Wakoopa.

Check out Osalt @ www.osalt.com

OSLiving: Archive for Top Open Source Software

Kaly — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:26:16 +0000

Nicely organized collection of best open source software package in one place. Over 130 widely admired apps from several categories, i.e. video/audio, web browsers, email clients, photo editing (ex. Gimp- free alternative to Photoshop), instant messengers, and etc.

Features

Software categories: Web++, Graphics and Photo, Video, Audio, Documents, Content Management (CMS), File Transfer Tools, Web Dev, Entertainment, and Miscellaneous.
Don’t see your favorite app? Recommend it for a conclusion.

Check out OSLiving @ [ www.osliving.com]

BitNami : Open Source Packages. Simplified.

Aibek Esengulov — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:26:54 +0000

BitNami makes it easier to download and install Open Source software packages (i.e. WordPress, SugarCRM, Drupal, phpBB…) by bundling each package into preconfigured 1-click setup file. No need to deal with configuration settings or dependencies. Just download a package you need, run installation wizard, and that’s it. Once done, you will have a fully-functional and configured copy on your system.

“The BitNami Project was created to help spread the adoption of freely available, high quality Open Source web applications.”

Advanced search: browse and search open source packages by category (Blogging, CMS, Collaboration, CRM, Wiki, Photo Sharing, etc.), technology (ASP.NET, Java, MySQL, Python, Ruby on Rails, etc.), license type (Apache, Creative commeons, EPL, GPL, …) or tags.
Recommend and vote on the next to be stacked apps on Bitnami polls.
BitNami forums: Get help and provide feedback on the BitNami stacks.

Check out BitNami @ www.bitnami.org