Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates
May 13, 2009Adobe has released security updates for its PDF Reader and Acrobat 9.1 and earlier versions.
more »Concourse Connect: AGPL Software for Community Websites
May 13, 2009U.S. firm Concursive has released the first version of its ConcourseConnect Web platform. The open source product serves to build community websites with blogs, wikis, picture galleries and other interactive features.
more »Dropbox Clone Ubuntu One
May 12, 2009The cloud-based service Ubuntu One goes into the public beta phase. Using Ubuntu One, computers can be synchronized via online memory. So far, Canonical is withholding details.
more »Photographic Memory: KPhotoAlbum for KDE 4
May 12, 2009Some users might know KPhotoAlbum under the earlier name of KimDaBa. Now, after a time-intensive migration, the album-software is available in version 4 for KDE 4.
more »Scary Monsters and Stinky Fruit: The New Blender Open Movie Project
May 11, 2009Are you an artist or a 3D specialist? If so you can apply for a job at Blender. The project will begin work on its latest open source movie in September. The film title: Durian.
more »Kindle DX: Amazon's Reader with Large Display
May 07, 2009The new e-book reader from Amazon now has a 9.7" E-Ink display at 1200 x 824 pixels, weighs in at about 19 ounces and is only 0.38" thick.
more »Zend Framework 1.8.0: New Tools and Cloud Connectivity
May 05, 2009A command line scripting tool called Zend_Tool is available for the first time in version 1.8.0 of the Zend Framework, which also provides connectivity to Amazon's cloud computing service.
more »Moonlight 2.0 Preview
May 05, 2009The Moonlight Project has been working on an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight technology. Now they have released the first preview of Moonlight 2.0, incorporating some Silverlight 3.0 features.
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