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Open source FeelHome provides simple, cross-platform remote access to your files

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source

Want to make sure you can access the files on your home (or work) computer from wherever you are — on any computer or web-enabled device? FeelHome is a hassle-free way to get the job done.

The open source server app is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows (Windows [...]

ReMail may live on - Google releases source

Filed under: Apple, Google, Open Source, iPhone

In what comes as a bit of a surprise move, Google has decided to open-source the code for ReMail, the iPhone app it recently purchased and retired from the App Store. Speculation at the time was that Google was killing the existing ReMail product as a way to gain [...]

CodeOrgan plays your website’s tune, and it sounds better than you’d expect

Filed under: Audio, Fun, Web

What does your website sound like? Now there’s a new way to find out. I’m not talking about GeoCities-style autoplaying midis, here, I’m talking about CodeOrgan. CodeOrgan is a new web-based toy that turns the source code of your page into a synthesized jam. I expected it to do grievous damage [...]

Gloobus is a sexy file previewer for your Gnome desktop

Filed under: Utilities, Linux, Open Source

Gloobus-Preview is a truly awesome extension for the GNOME Desktop environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. Based on Apple’s Quicklook you can, for example, display the currently played mp3 including a cover window and lyrics on your desktop while playing music with your [...]

Play with your Xbox 360 controller on Mac OS X

Filed under: Games, Utilities, Macintosh, Open Source

An enterprising Mac gamer, Colin D. Munro, created a USB driver which adds support to Mac OS X for the official Microsoft Xbox 360 wired controller. Along with all the buttons, both analog sticks, the analog triggers, and the D-pad, it also implements Force Feedback support using the rumble [...]

Sweet Home 3D - a free interior design app

Filed under: Utilities, Open Source

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. Sweet Home 3D helps you to design your interior quickly and easily: draw the walls of your home upon the image of an existing plan, change the [...]

Paint.Net plugin lets you view and edit Photoshop PSD files

Filed under: Design, Windows, Open Source

The aptly-named Paint.Net PSD Plugin is one of those pieces of software which pretty much spells it all out right in the name. It’s a plugin…for Paint.Net…(wait for it)…which lets you open files saved in Photoshop’s PSD format.

Download the zip archive, dump the included PhotoShop.dll file into your Paint.Net FileTypes [...]

Open source disk tool UltraDefrag hits version 4.0

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source

If you haven’t heard it mentioned before with other disk defragmenters, UltraDefrag is a solid open source alternative to tools like MyDefrag and Auslogics’ Disk Defrag.

Ultra Defrag is packed with functionality, offering whole disk defragmentation and optimization, file and folder defragging (via your right-click context menu), boot-time defragging, and scheduled [...]

Symbian OS goes free and open-source, in the biggest switch in software history

Filed under: OS Updates, Symbian, Open Source, Mobile

Fans of free and open source software, I hope you have a change of pants handy, because this is some big news. Symbian, a platform that has been proprietary and closed-source for a decade, just opened up its code and turned free. It’s been close to two years [...]

Google Chrome tablet UI begins taking shape in Chromium nightly builds

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Google’s user interface mockups and YouTube video were a hot topic the other day, and that buzz will likely continue until we finally see a tablet device emerge from Mountain View to accompany the Nexus One.

If the images and video weren’t enough proof for you, changes are under way in the [...]