If you are interested in open source and privacy friendly android apps you should have a look at this two projects.
The group Privacy Friendly Apps are a collection of Android-Applications, which are optimized based on privacy. This means that only a minimum of permissions is used. There are no unnecessary permissions, e.g. a torch application would ask for a permission to read the contacts.
Maybe you are one of the people who is using GoogleReader not because you like Google that much, but because you are not aware of a nice online alternative.
organize and read your feeds, set priorities, filter your feeds and items and fetch news, images and photos in a really easy way
simple ⋅ free ⋅ open source
You can install rsslounge on your own server. You just need apache/php/mysql.
Have you ever asked yourself: Where the $&”(% is the RSS Feed Icon in Firefox 4?” I did.
By default the new RSS web feeds subscription button is not visible. To add this to the toolbar ( or navigation tool-bar as it is called in Firefox 4 ) just right-click on the toolbar and select customize. In the customize tool bar window that appears, click and drag the “Subscribe” icon to the desired location. Done.
Blogilo is a Free/Open Source Blogging client, focused on simplicity and usability.
It is a KDE program, which allows you to create a blog posting offline and submit it to your blog. Using a normal client instead of a browser can be more convenient.
I’m using wordpress with a handfull of a blogs and discovered a problem with blogilo: It only allows me to submit postings to my primary wordpress blog. For everyone who has the same problem, there is an easy solution
BTW, To get out of this problem, You can set http://wordpress.com as your blog url and try! It will fetch all of your blogs, and you can select which one you want!
iotop is a console application for monitoring the I/O usage of processes on your system. It is especially handy for answering the question “Grrr, sloooowness, why is my disk churning so much?”
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iotop is available in Debian since Lenny and in Ubuntu (universe) since Intrepid.
Operating systems on supercomputers used to be custom-made affairs, but this has changed. These days, Linux has become a popular choice for supercomputers. But how popular? You may be surprised.
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19 of the top 20 supercomputers in the world are running some form of Linux. That’s 95%! And if you just look at the top 10, ALL of them use Linux.
KDE 4 includes many exciting new technologies, including Plasma, a feature that forms the desktop shell of KDE 4. See how to write simple Plasma applets (known as plasmoids) to greatly improve the desktop experience and how to turn a plasmoid into a simple memory monitor.
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