January 16, 2011
In my third and final article about Amahi Home Server, I’m going to show you how to create new network shares to store files in, set up file-duplication for critical files using the Greyhole storage pool, and have a quick look at the other applications in the app store, such as Transmission for downloading torrents. [...]
January 6, 2011
Spawned off the back of popular real-time strategy (RTS) game Total Annihilation, Spring is an open source freeware strategy game engine designed to run on Windows and Linux, with a Mac version still under development. Developers can take the engine and use it as they please, without having to pay the creators any money for [...]
October 25, 2010
I thought that college students get heavy discounts on commercial software but I just recently found out that students can get commercial software completely free (including Visual Studio, Expression Encoder, etc), which is a nice perk. However, the perks of being a student don’t end there as there are actually quite a few student-friendly applications, which may even [...]
October 20, 2010
Bringing together the best the open source world has to offer to students, Linux distribution UberStudent is a great starting point for the college-attending geek wanting to give Linux a try. It may not be as straight-forward as Ubuntu, but it does aim to bring together a number of needs students have: links to cheap [...]
October 4, 2010
If you’re like me and have too many files outside my Dropbox that need to be backed up, you’ve probably been looking at ways to backup your files online, and to external drives. MakeUseOf has featured a collection of backup software for Windows, Mac, and Linux. When backing up to additional locations, you probably also [...]
September 27, 2010
For a project that received $10,000 funding within the first 12 days of its announcement, Diaspora has quite a lot to live up to. When you factor in that the funding eventually reached $200,641 and donors to the project include Facebook frontman Mark Zuckerburg (describing it as a “cool idea”) then this open-source social network [...]
September 8, 2010
Lot of users swear by VLC as their preferred media player, but there’s plenty of other capable players out there, like the multi-functional video/audio player and converter Media Cope (which also resizes/converts photos, and creates slideshows). When it comes to resource-friendly media players, the list narrows down. Splayer (version 3.5) is a lightweight, open-source media [...]
August 24, 2010
Long time gamers around the world will likely recognize the name of one of the greatest turn based strategy games of all time – Scorched Earth. Scorched Earth was created by Wendell Hicken in 1991. With great humbleness, he deemed it the “Mother of All Games.” Whether or not you agree, one this is for [...]
July 27, 2010
A lot of die-hard gamers might have heard of the Alien Swarm shooter game in the past. The game originated as a full-conversion mod for the popular arena shooter Unreal Tournament 2004; completely developed by a score of community developers. Those same developers were subsequently hired by Valve, the top game publisher that’s behind Half Life [...]
June 23, 2010
What do people do after they’ve found something that they can “live with”? Most will settle down. And what will happen after people settle down? They will stop looking around. While this might be good when speaking about a spouse or family, it’s not always good for everything else. In terms of media players for [...]
