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Democracy Player is a new kind of browser for watching videos– grab webpages with video and video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), and watch them full screen, one after the other. It’s free and open source.

ActiveRDF is a library for accessing RDF data from Ruby programs. It can be used as data layer in Ruby-on-Rails, similar to ActiveRecord (which provides an O/R mapping to relational databases). ActiveRDF in RoR allows you to create semantic web applicatio

Opinion is a Ruby on Rails based Forum system that tries to approximate a “blog <-> comment” system rather than imitating busy and noisy traditional forum solutions that already exist.

The Ultra-Mobile PC is portable, lightweight, and configured to connect on the go. It’s the device that you’ll always want with you.

Origami is a code name for a small project with big plans. Our team wants to make Ultra-Mobile PCs a device you won’t leave home without, but we need your help. Own a UMPC? Tell us what you like and dislike about it. Don’t own a UMPC, but have ideas about

I wanted the ability to be able to add tags to content without needing to define the tags in advance – kind of like Flickr where you just type your tags in. This turned out to be pretty easy using Rails’ “Has and Belongs To Many” (HaBTM) relationships, bu

Make your digital images more convincing and lifelike with just a handful of gradients and custom shadows. Once you’re done, your pictures will look like real photo prints, you’d swear they popped out of the screen.

Rails model files contain no information on the tables they represent. This is a good thing in general, because it reduces duplication—add a column to a table, and there’s no configuration to update in the model.

Aside from its immorality and its illegality, says Herrington, torture is simply “not a good way to get information.” In his experience, nine out of 10 people can be persuaded to talk with no “stress methods” at all, let alone cruel and unusual ones. Aske

Plagger is a pluggable RSS/Atom feed aggregator written in Perl. Everything is implemented as a small plugin and you can mash them up together using Plagger core API and plugin hooks. You can think of Plagger as a blosxom or qpsmtpd for RSS aggregator.

Garcia does advocate clear navigation tools, legible type, order and continuity in regular features and, finally, an attractive look.

A portable Wi-Fi hot spot. Whenever you wanted Internet access, you wouldn’t have to hunt for a wireless coffee shop or pay $24 a night to your hotel.

List of freely available windows software. NOT SHAREWARE.

Fred Langa offers a step-by-step and illustrated guide on how to boot XP from an ordinary USB drive.

Unipage™ is a way to store a complete web page as just one file that you can directly view in a browser. All of the page’s images, styling, and even functionality are kept together instead of being scattered in separate files.

FullSync is a universal file synchronization and backup tool which is highly customizable and expandable. It is especially for developers, but the basic functionality is easy enough for everyone.

Gmail Skins is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things).

This guide will attempt to take you step by step, through the process of creating a fully functioning CSS layout. I will try my best to explain the concepts behind each step, but a lot of the time other people have already covered these things better than

Open Source Trouble Ticket System for Small & Medium Sized Businesses

parabola is a browser based news feed aggregator. It is written using Ruby on Rails and uses the quite excellent FeedTools module for all the parsing of feeds.

Absolutely not! But it does mean that few games are going to hit all 9 of these high notes, and that’s okay. Every game you run should be a learning experience — these are lessons, but they’re also goals.