Monday, December 13, 2004

Free (and open) holiday greeting cards. Setting up an electronic greeting card site for your own purposes is easier than you think. There are at least two respectable well-maintained open-source-licensed applications that can help you get your holiday e-cards to friends, family, co-workers, or customers this season. Sendcard and Penguin Greetings can give you the bragging rights to say you run your own e-card service. [NewsForge] 2:09:58 PM

Songs 0.3. Songs is a graphical tool to record and mix audio files. It supports an infinite number of tracks, huge audio files, and various effects. [freshmeat.net] 12:18:52 PM

freshmeat.net: Project details for Partition Logic "Partition Logic is a partitioning and data management tool for PC-compatible computers. It includes its own standalone operating system and GUI, and can fit on a single boot floppy (or CD). It creates, modifies, deletes, formats, and moves partitions, and copies hard disks. It is based on the Visopsys operating system. " This is new and still somewhat limited, but it shows promise.  Something to keep an eye on. 11:35:06 AM

NewsForge | Getting started with Bochs - "What if you need to run your legacy Windows application on a Linux box, a Mac, or a Solaris-based workstation? To make the equation even more interesting throw in a few requirements -- add transferring old legacy accounting data over the network, or using the backed-up data from a CD-ROM. And yes, you want to keep the costs to a minimum. An open source project called Bochs may be your best option." I've looked at Bochs before, and it keeps getting better.  This tutorial smoothes out some of the rough spots of using it.  For a testing environment, it may be a viable alternative to VmWare. 11:33:18 AM

freshmeat.net: Project details for Bugzero - "Bugzero is a Web-based bug tracking, defect tracking, issue tracking, and change management system used in a distributed team environment to track software bugs, hardware defects, test cases, or any other issues. It can also be used equally well as a helpdesk customer support, trouble ticketing, or email management system to collect and manage customer feedbacks, incidents, requests, and issues. It is easy to use, but still flexible and adaptive, and can be configured to fit to your organization's unique business process and workflow. " 11:28:21 AM

New MSN Desktop Search, Toolbar Suite Betas Expected Monday, Too. Lots of folks are expecting MSN on Monday to take the wraps off yet another beta of its MSN Desktop Search. Neowin also is reporting that MSN will show off a new beta of the MSN Toolbar Suite, which features the new MSN Desktop Search technology. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 11:11:55 AM