brijmin on Tech

I have my home desktop set up with applications for a variety of tasks, but when traveling, at work or at a friend’s house (I’m often de facto IT for friends and family) I never seem to have the tools I need. I used to carry around a book of CDs with various applications, but [...]

Boxee is a free cross-platform media center and entertainment hub with social networking features that is a fork of Open Source XBMC media center software. As a “‘Social Media Center”, Boxee enables its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social networking features.

Oh, Android – How do I love thee? Let me count the ways; I love that you’ve essentially eliminated the need to hypothesize what might be coming in future firmware updates as, due to your open source nature, it’s put out there for all to see. I love that.. well, there are other reasons, but [...]

ZScreen is an extremely flexible alternative. The usual capture options are supported – full screen, active window, or selection and hotkeys can be mapped to a single key or to two or three key combinations.

XBMC (aka Xbox Media Center) is a free, open-source media center application designed, in the beginning, for the original Xbox. XBMC has made serious progress over the past year or so and can now run virtually anywhere-including Windows, Mac, Linux, and Apple TVs.

While network planning and design isn’t usually part of my job, I do sometimes need to put together a quick sketch of a client’s systems to help me oragnize a plan of attack.
Network Notepad is exactly what I was looking for – a small, free app that lets me lay out network devices, servers, printers, [...]

PortableApps.com is the most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and free platform, it works on any USB flash drive, iPod, memory card, portable hard drive or other portable device. With a full collection of open source software as well as compatible freeware and [...]

I’m always on the lookout for apps that can ease my workload or free up some room in my budget, and open source applications are an excellent way for me to accomplish both.
If you’re in the same boat as me, hopefully you’re already utilizing some open source options. If not, I’ve put together this list [...]

Android isn’t the “Google Phone” or “GPhone.” It’s a (mostly) free and open-source mobile operating system that’s made to run on all kinds of cell phones, and allow nearly anyone who can program in Java to create and distribute applications for it.

This is a rather interesting review. I would think that Apple will be shutting these guys down soon, so you may want to grab your EFI-X™ chips soon.
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