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Apple Open-Sources Grand Central Dispatch

Written on September 14, 2009 by Andrew Bednarz and 5 people have commented

One of the most compelling new feature in Snow Leopard is Grand Central Dispatch, which can make it easier for developers to write software taking advantage of the multiple cores in our computers. On Sept., 10 Apple released the user library component of Grand Central to the open source community.
We previously discussed Grand Central Dispatch, [...]

Smultron and Lingon Developer Hangs Up Hat

Written on August 10, 2009 by Andrew Bednarz and 22 people have commented

If you were to navigate to lingon.sourceforge.net or smultron.sourceforge.net today, you would see the following text on your screen:
“Hi!
First of all I’d like to thank you for your interest in my applications. But I have now come to a point where I don’t have the time to spend on the applications that they deserve so [...]

How-To: Sync an iPod Using Open-source Software

Written on July 09, 2009 by Lisa Hoover and 8 people have commented

It’s hard to deny how handy it is to plug an iPod into a Mac, fire up iTunes, and watch your device sync with your computer automagically. Take the Mac or iTunes out of the equation, though, and syncing gets a little trickier.
If you don’t like iTunes, or you use Linux as your primary operating [...]

Shipments of Open-Source Smartphones May Hit 223M By 2014

Written on July 02, 2009 by Lisa Hoover and 2 people have commented

Over at OStatic yesterday, Sam Dean pointed to a study from Juniper Research that claims shipments of smartphones with open-source operating systems will double by 2014. According to Jupiter, operating systems and available applications are among the top concerns when customers shop for smartphones, and that may give the open-source community all the leverage it [...]

DIY Magi: Great (and Free!) Gift Pack for New Mac Owners

Written on December 22, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 2 people have commented

With both shopping days and budgets running short, you may be wondering what to get your friends and family members who have either just purchased or will be receiving a new Mac.
With 1-8GB USB flash drives having a street price of ~$6-$15.00 and a plethora of highly useful free software for the Mac ripe for [...]

ActiveState Takes Komodo Edit To The Community

Written on March 13, 2008 by Bob Rudis and No one has commented

As I’ve been catching up from an illness backlog, I came across this press release from ActiveState – providers of commercially-supported versions of Perl, Python & TCL – on their decision to take their great editor Komodo Edit open source. This editor has been based on the Mozilla code base, and the open source version [...]

A Look at Native KDE 4.0 for OS X

Written on January 25, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 11 people have commented

This week Slashdot (and many, many others) reported that KDE 4.0 has been released for Windows and OS X. KDE (K Desktop Environment) has been a popular GUI for *nix systems and there have been ways of getting it to run (mostly) on OS X prior to this native port if you were willing to [...]