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Over 45 Free, Essential Open Source Resources

On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational toolkits are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly collect the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and much more. In this post, you'll find an updated set of more than 45 collections and resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.


10 Of OStatic's Most Popular Open Source Educational Resources

Are you looking for some good open source educational material and perhaps some new applications to try this Fourth of July weekend? At OStatic, we put together regular collections of tips, tutorials, and recommendations designed to add to your open source arsenal. In this post, you'll find ten of these, ranging from resources for Linux users, to top OSS web development tools, to graphics and music gems, to good ways to get more out of Firefox. Dig in:


Songbird Jukebox App Out in New Version, Complements iTunes

The open source jukebox and iTunes competitor Songbird is out in a new version 1.2 for Windows, the Mac and Linux, and it's worth getting, even if you're a dedicated iTunes user. There are several new features, described here. It's now much easier to work with files and folders, and there are many new ways to work with Last.fm, especially when discovering new music.


Free Open Source Resources: Some of Our Popular Collections

In the mood for picking up skills with some new open source apps and extensions? Here are five popular collections we've done on free applications, books, tutorials, and more:

7 Free Resources for Eye-Popping Graphics and Animation. From free clip art, to free web design templates, to a free desktop publishing app, to resources for animation in Blender, here are some gems.

6 Ways to Get Much More Out of GIMP. GIMP is a long-standing and hugely respected open source graphics program. Here are good ways to learn and optimize it, including a free online book.

OStatic's Firefox Superguide. The Firefox browser has one distint advantage over other browsers: thousands of useful extensions. You'll find the best ones here, and other Firefox goodies.

Over 35 Free, Essential Open Source Resources and Apps. This is our uber-roundup of open source applications and resources, divided into categories. It's packed with apps, tutorials, free online books, and more.

8 Free, Open Source Tools for a Better Digital Music Experience. Here you'll find how to put a new, slick open source OS on an old iPod, software apps that extend beyond iTunes, and how to maximize your musical experience on Android.



3 Free Open Source Tools for Sampling Music Online

Do you ever get a song playing in your head that you just can't get rid of? Do you like to sample new music in search of tunes that you may like? There are several good open source tools for sampling and playing music when you're online, and you can get going with them almost instantly. Here are three top choices.


Songbird's Update Gives Users Something To Sing About

Songbird - Open Source Music PlayerSongbird, Mozilla's cross-platform media player, got a nice update this week. Aside from a few great performance enhancements like reduced CPU usage during playback, a smaller Mac download size, and configurable library caching, this point release has some dandy new features as well.

 



10 Free, Open Source Digital Entertainment Resources and Roundups

Most users of proprietary software arm themselves with arrays of digital entertainment applications, ranging from iTunes to Windows Media Player to RealPlayer. That's due to big improvements in the bandwidth everyone gets, attention from content providers, and more. The good news is that for open sourcers, digital entertainment applications have matured -- big-time -- for Windows, Linux and the Mac. Even if you use proprietary applications such as iTunes for music, or Windows Media Player for videos, there are many open source applications that can complement and add to your libraries, collections and players. You'll find 10 good roundups of open source digital entertainment resources here, and more than 50 total free applications.?


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Sun CEO: Open source equals free advertising. By being freely distributed, our products build their own audiences, says Jonathan Schwartz.

Another 100,000+ week for Fedora 10. It's been gaining users at impressive rates.

How to install Google Earth 5.0 on Ubuntu. It's not available by default in the Ubuntu repositories, but here's how to manually get it going.

Round two of a long-time Windows user's switch to Linux. The second installment is here, and the first here.



8 Free, Open Source Tools for a Better Digital Music Experience

Sure the world of digital music is loaded with copyright sharks, DRM and other undesirables, but it's also increasingly teeming with cool, free open source tools and applications. Do you want to sync iPods and iPhones to any computer anywhere? How about playing Doom on your own customized OS for iPods or most other music players? Do you need customized music library management for multiple platforms, including Linux? Would you like to mix and record original music online with other musicians? How about a free, streaming radio application for your phone that will automate interesting playlists for you, and play while you use other apps? Here are eight great resources for doing all of this and more.


Songbird 1.0 Flies: Flock of New Features on the Horizon

Last month, I took a brief tour of the pre-release Songbird music player. Songbird is a cross-platform media player based on Mozilla code. This week, the Songbird project released the finalized 1.0 version of the player.

The pre-release versions of Songbird featured iPod support, Last.fm scrobbling, SHOUTcast radio, plugin extensions, and a localized concert discovery service. The 1.0 release adds one more feature to its default list -- MashTape -- and turns an ambitious eye toward the future.



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