blog.awill.me

blog.awill.me

21 Jun 2010

VLC 1.10 released

VLC is one of those apps that almost does too many things. Most people use it to decode (watch) videos. But VLC can also encode, stream, …
27 May 2010
19 May 2010
09 May 2010

Google's Android, secrecy and openness.

So, Google’s Android is open source right. Sorta true. It is in the general sense, the problem is that most of the phones running it need …
24 Apr 2010

A new OSS compression: XZ

XZ compression has actually been out for a little while, but it just recently began to build traction in Linux distributions. It has been …
20 Apr 2010

A review of VoIP provider Ooma

For those of you who haven’t heard of Ooma, it’s a phone service that runs through your internet connection (VoIP). All you need is a …
09 Apr 2010

My thoughts on the iPhoneOS 4.0

I’d been meaning to post this earlier, but we have some pretty major deadlines at work, and I’ve been busy. I did get to see Steve Job’s …
31 Mar 2010

GNOME 2.30

So GNOME 2.30 (a desktop environment/graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system) was released today. But …