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10-Year Anniversary of Open Source This Saturday

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

This Saturday the open source initiative will be 10 years old.  I’m a huge open source fan, in fact my blog is being written and hosted on open source software.  10 years past and many more years to come for this popular movement.  Some of the best applications are open source.  Have a look at [...]

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Tags: OpenSource · Tech Blogroll

TrueCrypt 5.0

February 6th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s now official, TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released and it sounds like there are some neat new features in this latest release, for example whole disk encryption and improved performance.
In addition OS X is finally supported and I’m sure TrueCrypt will be a welcome replacement/alternative to file vault.
I’ve used TrueCrypt for quite some [...]

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Tags: Encryption · OpenSource

Open Source Software

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I was listening to a podcast called Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte. I usually listen to this podcast weekly as there are pretty interesting topics centered around the world of Microsoft and sometimes Apple. This week I learned of an interesting little application called Handbrake. According to the Handbrake website:
“Handbrake is [...]

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Tags: OpenSource