"In the years of IE 90% dominance there was nothing much to do but regard the browser as a "black box", but now, with open source browsers having more than half of the usage share, it's a good time to take a peek under the engine's hood and see what's inside a web browser. Well, what's inside are millions of C++ lines..."

"In the hopes of shrinking this education gap, Google sent Bisciglia back to his alma mater, the University of Washington, where he taught a course on "working with big data." And Hadoop was the teaching model.

Google ended up hiring about half the students who took the class. And after the company open-sourced the curriculum, the same course was picked up by several other universities, including MIT and Berkeley. "In the past, it took three to six months to get hires up to speed with how to work with [Google] technology," Bisciglia says. "But if schools are teaching this as part of the standard undergraduate curriculum, Google saved that three to six months - multiplied by thousands of engineers.""

"We have developed an extension to the popular Firefox browser that contacts network notaries whenever your browser connects an HTTPS website."

"On Tuesday voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, got to try out a new, transparent voting system that lets voters go online to verify that their ballots got counted in the final tally. The system also lets anyone independently audit election results to verify the votes went to the correct candidates."

"The manufacturer of a hydrogen car unveiled in London on Tuesday will make its designs available online so the cars can be built and improved locally."

Features the use of ultracapacitors.

"From a simple, simple project that is suffering from an inexplicable near complete lack of attention from the free software community comes a revolutionary change in the way that free software is developed and distributed. ... It's just that the implications of its deployment really haven't been fully uncovered. Those that have been discussed here are pretty monumental. "

"apt-gentoo enhances the Debian package installation experience to make it fully competitive with newly-popular source-based distributions. As packages are installed, apt-gentoo automatically downloads their build logs from the buildd network. The logs are then slowly scrolled past on the user's terminal to simulate building the software on the local machine. apt-gentoo optionally, and by default, gives increased realism by spinning the CPU in a tight loop between build log lines, and writing large files to disk."

"it figures out using wi-fi signals when Brad is approaching his house, so even if he turns it on an hour before it won't actually open until he's close by. This isn't possible on other phones because they don't let you get access to the wi-fi bits to do AP scanning."

"It began with a few pilot projects, and apparently these have been so successful that the Russian government has now decided to make it the standard for *all* schools."

"BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (ex: a camera, a keyboard, a video output, etc.)."

"We call on all governments to: 1. Procure only information technology that implements free and open standards; 2. Deliver e-government services based exclusively on free and open standards; 3. Use only free and open digital standards in their own activit

"Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. ... Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform."

"As a matter of fact, my post here was compose9 originally in OpenPa9 then copie9 an9 paste9 into the Slash9ot comment s4bmission page."

"What I'd like is a personal CMS that is a) open source, b) has it's own blogging system, both publication and aggregation, and c) can used as a platform for one's online/digital identity"

"Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments."

"An encryption package that creates an encrypted file which can be decrypted to different plaintexts depending on which decryption key is used."

Install packs for open source apps.

"DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs."

"DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set."

Open source planetarium software. Killer app for that sort of thing.

NS:CO finally goes open source.

"The BBC is being threatened with an anti-trust challenge in Europe over its use of the Windows Media format in its on demand service, iPlayer, which is in the final stages of testing."

"Storage is an exciting project to replace the traditional filesystem with a new document store. Storage is part of a larger design for a new desktop environment ... The current implementation offers natural language access, network transparency, and a nu

"Why can't my computer automatically show me things that will help me with what I'm doing, instead of making me search around for them? The goal of the dashboard is to automatically show a user useful files and other objects as he goes about his day."

Lost of nifty open hardware, etc.

P2P streaming software.

Free streaming server software.

News and stuff on open source DJing software.

A list of good OSS apps for Windows.

A list of handy graph and network drawing Java apps.

Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, FileZilla and OpenSSL, all in one easy to install package.

A rather good ripper app.

A rather spiffy a/v converter app.

SWiK is a community driven resource for open source software that integrates wikis, blogs and tagging.

CamStudio can record all screen and audio activity on your computer to either AVI or SWF and has basic support for captions.

An interview with an instructional technologist Alan Levine about the future of free/open source software, open culture and web 2.0 in education.

Homepage of the Jabber/XMPP client Psi.

The home of Mixxx, an open source DJ tool.

Internet TV app utilising RSS and bittorrent.