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Kickstart your project

Posted by on August 9, 2011 at 7:37 pm

I’ve just come across Kickstarter – a site where you can pledge money to software development projects in return for incentives.  The more you pledge, the better the incentive.  It’s like pre-ordering, but your pledged money is taken immediately, which gives the developer funding to deliver on their promise at a later date. I pledged [...]

Great Ubuntu Software

Posted by on June 22, 2010 at 7:37 pm

Just a quick list of top-quality Ubuntu software that you may or may not have heard about.  In no particular order.  Many are installable from the repository, while others might require a little google/search for their PPA (I’ve kicked you off with a link for each).  This post revolves around Ubuntu 10.04 – the Lucid [...]

Earthrise

Posted by on November 17, 2007 at 7:05 pm

I sincerely hope this works.  If it does, you can see the earth rising over the moon, from about 100K above the moon’s surface.  From this Register article. Shame – that embedded object didn’t work.  You can still see the movie by using the link above, or by visiting it directly, here. [EDIT : I've added a [...]

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