Archive for category Open Source
Open .eps files on GIMP for Windows
Posted by ITechLog in Easy Tips, Open Source on September 18th, 2009
As usual this post is a self help note, but as it’s public I hope it helps someone else. If you want to open .eps or .ps files with GIMP on Windows you will need to install Ghostscript (download it from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/). After successful installation you will need to create an environment variable called GS_PROG [...]
Creating a bootable Linux USB flash drive
Posted by ITechLog in Linux, Open Source on August 20th, 2009
I am currently working on a project to offer an Open Source Linux based Network Tool pre-installed in a very small custom built computer (like the fit-pc or linutop), I want to avoid having a CD drive and want to keep it simple for the client to reinstall the system if needed. I decided to [...]
PHP-GTK is still live
Posted by ITechLog in Open Source on July 25th, 2009
PHP-GTK is an extension for the PHP programming language that implements language bindings for GTK+. It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications. PHP-GTK is one of those great [...]
Firefox Add-on Collector
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News, Open Source, Web Design, Web Programming, Web Services on July 21st, 2009
Now you can have a list of your favourite Firefox Add-ons to share. I have always tried to keep a list in my bookmarks of the Add-ons I find most useful and normally recommend to people, now life has become much easier.
Discover more of the best add-ons and organize your favourites in easy-to-manage collections. [...]
Open Source Web Conference
Posted by ITechLog in Open Source, Web Services on July 17th, 2009
Dimdim.com allows anyone to experience live web meetings using just a browser. It has a very intuitive web conference – lets anyone deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and webpages while sharing their voice and video over the Internet – with no download required. Based on an open source platform it is used in over 185 [...]
Error 1062 – Duplicate entry ‘2147483647′ for key 1
Posted by ITechLog in Easy Tips, Open Source, Web Programming on July 10th, 2009
CRE Loaded was giving me the error 1062 – Duplicate entry ‘2147483647′ for key 1 – when trying to add a new product.
Cause: for some unexplained reason the auto_increment ID field on Table “products” has gone up to 2147483647 which is apparently the maximum number of rows permitted in an INT column.
Fix:
Go to your phpMyadmin [...]
SwitchVox IP PBX
Posted by ITechLog in Open Source, Servers on June 3rd, 2009
Switchvox is Digium’s family of Voice Over IP Phone systems for small and medium businesses. Switchvox systems are designed to be easy to use, full of helpful features and cost less than a traditional PBX. It’s based on the world’s leading open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit Asterisk.
Technorati Tags: Asterisk, Difium, IP [...]
Mozilla FENNEC – the Firefox gone mobile
Posted by ITechLog in Open Source on May 21st, 2009
Bringing Firefox’s features, security, performance and ease-of-use to mobile phones. Fennec is yet in it’s Beta 1 version, it has been built on the same technology as the world famous Mozilla Firefox and has many of the same features.
Tabbed browsing
One-click bookmarking
Super easy navigation
Add-on ons (Firefox style)
touch-enabled interfaced optimized for the small screen
The interface is [...]
GIMP Tutorial and book
Posted by ITechLog in Open Source, Tutorials, Web Design on May 20th, 2009
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package and it works on Linux, Windows, Mac, OpenSolaris and FreeBSD. It is also available in many languages. The official GIMP Project [...]
