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Tag: Open Source

  • Chromium and Plugins

    Well it seems that Chromium reports itself as a Windows browser, so that lets you get the Windows files for the plugins. Good news? Almost. It seems that while the plugins install (I tried Flash and Authorware), they do not work. Now I can’t tell if the “not working” has more to do with the…

  • Playing with Crossover Chromium

    I spotted this over the weekend, but as I was building a flagstone patio, I wasn’t really close to, or in the mood for dealing with a computer. But this morning, I hit the download link and took a look. The first impression is positive – through not for being able to run Chrome on…

  • 2008 Predictions

    This is one of the few last posts of the year as I take a bit of a break and as has become tradition, here are my predictions for the coming year and a review from what I said last year. So here we go. Social Systems Advertising Buyout Search I think that this coming…

  • Bad Moodlerooms

    Well, I was hoping to take in the session today from Moodlerooms about “Online Strategies and Best Practices”, but it seems that the webcast service that they use has only limited support for Mac. Bad bad bad… why would an open source based company use a closed (Real Player to boot) system for it’s webcast?…

  • exes can run on OSX?

    A few days ago, I was going to post on the ability to use Darwine to run IE on the Mac but then I got side tracked. Then this afternoon, I stumbled on this – Ars has found enough stuff in Leopard that Apple could have Windows apps running without Bootcamp. Part of me is…