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Paint.NET is the open source Photoshop
08 May 07 10:49 AM | urig | with no comments

Back after a long period of time away from the internet. This won't be much of a comeback though, as I'm getting married (!) the day after tomorrow and then I'm going here for a week: Santorini on 43places . But I digress. I just want to recommenced Paint.NET . In a sentence, it's the open source Photoshop. It's a free for download open source photo editing software. Of course it's not a real competitor for Photoshop - certainly not for professionals - but all the basic stuff is there - the lasso...

תגים:gui, usability, tools, development, open source

When did Open Source Software become so friendly?
14 December 06 04:18 PM | urig | with no comments

I've just finished installing MediaWiki 1.8.2 (the same wiki engine that powers Wikipedia ) on my machine at work. MediaWiki requires three things to be present on the machine prior to installing: A web server, A database server and the PHP engine. In my case that meant that I had to install Apache Http Server 2.2.3 , MySQL 5.0.27 Community Server and PHP 5.2.0 - all from scratch. The point of this post is that I was surprised at how easy it was to obtain and install these 4 (counting MediaWiki)...

תגים:usability, development, social software, cool, open source