Archive for September, 2007
Open Source Voip AsteriskNow
AsteriskNow is a well known Open Source telephone system. Introduced by Digium, the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, AsteriskNOW includes all the software needed to configure a phone system that offers the advanced features found in expensive proprietary products.
This video simply explains how to install and carry-out basic configuration. AsteriskNow is very adaptable and can be used for many purposes. Also watch the video on Lifehacker on how to hack your home telephone with Asterisk. (more…)
Gnome 2.20 Desktop Environment Released
Gnome 2.20 Desktop has been released. The popular multi-platform desktop environment was released today, with a baggage full of new and useful features. Some of the major improvements include;
Improved support for right-to-left languages like Arabic; Evolution now shows an icon in your panel’s notification area when you have a new email. Interactive PDF forms are now supported by Evince viewer, so you less need Adobe Reader. (more…)
Set multiple tabs as your homepage
A simple Firefox tip to set multiple tabs as your homepage. Go to Edit >> Preferences >> Main and simply separate multiple URLs by the | symbol in order to set them all to open in tabs as your Firefox homepage. Alternately, open all the pages you want to see on launch, and in Firefox’s Options dialog, hit the “Use Current Pages” button.
JackLab Audio Distribution 1.0 for media creators
Linux media lovers have always desired a distribution like JAD – Jacklab Audio Distribution. Now it is out. JAD 1.0 contains a full production environment for media production, primarily music but not only, video and imaging also.
JAD is based on the stable openSUSE 10.2 which uses a real time kernel suitable for multimedia applications and software. (more…)
Second day of Firefox celebrations
Second and last day of Firefox festivities. The major attraction in Japan was the Firefox car. it made it’s debut at the Mozilla 24 “Firefox Rock Festival” in Tokyo on Sept. 15th. and it will compete in the largest all-Japan custom car show in Nagoya later in September.
Join the Firefox party
Mozilla 24, the global community event that will be taking place in Paris, Tokyo, the S.F. Bay Area (Stanford University)
