brijmin on Tech

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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In the face of internet service providers like Comcast instituting bandwidth-capping, the Simple Help weblog details how to use a router running the open-source DD-WRT firmware to monitor your bandwidth. It’s actually very simple to do, requiring no work on your part aside from installing DD-WRT on your router. DD-WRT automatically tracks bandwidth, so from [...]

Free replacements for paid tools… Stop shelling out your hard earned money for applications that can do the same job for free. I hate to pay for software like Microsoft Office when you can use OpenOffice FREE or Adobe Standard when all I need to do is create PDF documents I can use CutePDF FREE. [...]

Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project.

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). [...]