A feel good story for today: after months of making very little progress, the GPG crowdfunding campaign took off last night big time after Julia Angwin published an article about the project’s dire financial situation in ProPublica.
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The League of Movable of Type is a group of typographers that have taken upon themselves the task of creating beautiful, complete and professional looking (free) fonts for everybody to use.
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Collabora, in association with the Document Foundation, is releasing an Open Source viewer that allows you to open text, presentations and other common office document formats on your Android device. Bigger things to come.
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The LibreCalc is a scientific calculator that has it all: it’s open source, it runs Linux, and it’s 3D printed.
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If you’re thinking of getting a 3D printer, check out the three machines we look at below. They are all good for end users, rely on tried and tested designs, use standard formats for the 3D files, and respect your freedom with open plans, drivers and specifications.
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It may sound hackneyed, it may sound trite, but many of the best things in life are free. Seriously. Even for Christmas. And not only in the not-costing-any-money sense of the word either. Free Software is on the rise and many apps targeted at end-users are as good, sometimes better, than expensive proprietary alternatives.
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The GPG team is running a donation campaign to keep the project alive. GnuPG keeps your email and communications secure by encrypting your messages and validating signatures.
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Although video games have reigned supreme as Christmas presents for kids (and many adults) for some years now, traditional board games are making a come back.
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Fabrice Bellard has just introduced the BPG (Better Portable Graphics) format to the world, an image format that achieves amazing quality at a fraction of the size of prior formats.
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GCompris, the free and open sourced educational software used in schools worldwide, is running a campaign which, if successful, will allow them to redo the look of the whole platform. Designed for young children, GCompris helps with motor skills, math, physics, literacy, geography, and much more. Now you can help GCompris to continue improving the…
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Música Móvel is a group of Brazilian developers and musicians that are creating cool and original mobile apps for music production. The applications take images captured live from the camera, graphical fractal tree structures, or gestures, to generate sounds, melodies and beats, turning your smartphone into a musical instrument.
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Unless you are a real fan of using proprietary software for your office productivity suite (wordprocessor, spreadsheet, presentations, etc.) just for the heck of it, there is currently no good reason for not trying LibreOffice, especially now that Coverity has certified it contains less than 4 defects for every 1,000,000 lines of code.
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