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Vanish Gives Your Message An Expiration Date
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | (Windows/Mac/Linux): Encrypting a message is an excellent way to protect it from prying eyes. What if you want to protect it against prying eyes and make it disappear? Expiring-message service Vanish can help. More »
Design
SmillaEnlarger Enlarges Your Images Without Artifacts
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows: Enlarging images, especially from lower resolution source images, can be a dicey business. Want to enlarge an image and you don’t want it to look like an 8-bit video game sprite? SmillaEnlarger can keep things smooth and artifact free. More »
Work
Miro 2.5 Gets New Audio Podcast Section, Improved Launch Speeds
8:00AM Azadeh Ensha | Windows/Mac/Linux: Miro, the open-source media player that’s sort of like a TiVo for internet video, has hit its 2.5 release, boasting 2 to 4 times faster launching speeds, a new audio podcast section and more. More »
Work
3:00PM Angus Kidman | You may never have heard of NICTA (the national ICT centre of excellence), but if you’re an open source enthusiast, you’ll likely be drooling at the new centralised open source portal it has just launched. More »
NICTA Puts Open Source Projects In One Place
3:00PM Angus Kidman | You may never have heard of NICTA (the national ICT centre of excellence), but if you’re an open source enthusiast, you’ll likely be drooling at the new centralised open source portal it has just launched. More »
Work
VLC Hits 1.0 With Better Playback And File Support
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC Media Player, the open-source solution to media players that can’t play your media files, reaches the 1.0 milestone today. What’s new? Support for HD and other new formats, finer speed controls, customisable toolbars, AirTunes streaming and much more. More »
Work
NasBackup Makes Incremental Backups Easy
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: NasBackup is an easy to use interface for the powerful rsync backup utility. More »
Work
Prey Phones Home To Help You Recover Your Stolen Laptop
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Your laptop is missing. You’re completely out of luck, right? Not if your laptop can phone home. Prey is a cross-platform security application that sends home pictures and location data when your laptop goes missing. More »
Work
DirSync Pro Keeps Your Files Synchronised
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac/Linux: Java-based DirSync Pro provides cross-platform file synchronisation with an easy to use interface, incremental backup and a profile system. More »
Work
OpenOffice.org 3.1 Available At A Server Near You
10:40PM Kevin Purdy | It’s not official, but OpenOffice.org 3.1, a bug-fixing and feature-adding release of the open-source office suite, can now be found and downloaded. More »
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