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We recently came across adminer, which is a phpmyadmin competitor and after using it for some time we felt that phpmyadmin is really an old tool and misses lots of features that todays phpmyadmin should have. So, here we have adminer, with much better features and it comes as just a single file (yeah, that’s [...]
Kicking hard and politely in Oracle‘s a**, yesterday OpenOffice.org community decided to part with the Oracle and announced LibreOffice under the organization named as The Document Foundation. It seems that Oracle was trying take away the infrastructure and other facilities from the open source projects which Sun Microsystem provided some time ago in one way or the [...]
It sounds strange enough to hear but it is true that Microsoft will be phasing out its Live Spaces making way for the blogging giant and Open Source Blogging app creator WordPress. Live Spaces, previously known as MSN Spaces, is a blogging and social networking platform by Microsoft. A post written by Dharmesh Mehta which [...]
Recently we came across a brilliant piece of software named Four Seasons of Code. It is a project management system which was built by Gaurav Menghani under the mentorship of Shreyank Gupta, a Red Hat employee and Fedora Contributor. Recently we had an opportunity to talk with Gaurav about FSoC and FOSS in general. Here [...]
The Yaps team is back from OSI Days and all we are in a position to say about it is that it was AWESOME! This year OSI Days saw thousands of audience and scores of powerful speakers. The event had an amazing organization with equally amazing pool of sponsors, giants we’d rather say. Although they [...]
Looks like the folks at the App Store Reviewing committee are working their asses off to bring previously rejected apps to the App Store. The updated App Submission guidelines have made possible a lot of submissions that previously would have been outright rejected are seeing the light of the day. One of the foremost among [...]
The Yaps team is here at the Chennai Trade Centre covering OSI Days 2010. Some great speakers have gathered here from all over the globe for the conference and have delivered talks and conducted workshops. We are two days into the conference and there is still a day to go before the conference ends. If [...]
India’s premier open source conference – LinuxAsia Conference and Expo – used to be held every spring in New Delhi. LinuxAsia had become a dynamic meeting ground for leaders from the international community and the Indian government, industry, enterprise users, academia and open source community. What started off as LinuxAsia in 2003, got renamed to [...]
Every Linux enthusiast has imagined creating a Linux Distro time and again but then it sure is not a one man job. Here we show you some(actually 3) of the most easy to use tools and techniques by which you can build a customized distro in a few minutes. So let us get going! Fedora [...]
Most of us have used Google Wave a bit. Some of us find it a very powerful tool while others find it just amusing but none can deny that is an awesome way to collaborate. Despite all this, Google Wave is termed as failure and Google announced discontinuing its further development. But for those who [...]
