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View ArticleWill the lack of commodity mobile hardware kill free software?
This magazine has voiced severalconcerns over the almost de-facto state of vendor lock-in in the mobile market and with good reason. What is the point of free software if the hardware locks your access...
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View ArticleChromebooks - has the future arrived?
It seems like an age ago since Google first announced ChromeOS and certainly there's been a lot written about it, including a fair bit in this magazine. Now that the launch of Chromebook models from...
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View ArticleTilt-Shift: Faking miniatures with GIMP
Recently I've seen a resurgence in chatter about Tilt-shift effects in photography. I think it has stemmed from the use of tilt shift in the introduction videos for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest....
View ArticleCreating a glass effect icon in Inkscape
Inkscape is a shining star in the free software graphics world. I've covered creating a simple ribbon in an earlier tutorial, so let's step things up a little. As part of my work I have often had to...
View ArticleWhat's happened to the Bizarre Cathedral?
As you know I draw/produce the Bizarre Cathedral cartoon strips for Free Software Magazine. Lately you may have noticed it's slowed to a bit of a crawl and almost a halt. This is just to let you know...
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Encouraging the next generation of hackers part 1 - Raspberry Pi the $25...
If you keep your eyes and ears on tech news, chances are you've heard of Raspberry Pi -- an ambitious project to create a small form-factor usable computer for the education market which will be...
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Encouraging the next generation of hackers part 2 - Software implementation
In the first part of this series I looked at the Raspberry Pi -- a $25 computer which is being developed to remove one barrier to encouraging the next generation of programmers. It's ambitious and...
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At last you can buy a Raspberry Pi!
In my recent series on Encouraging the next generation of Hackers I looked at the concept and ideas behind the (in my opinion) exciting Raspberry Pi project.Category: HackingTagging: raspberry...
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UK Government u-turns on open standards policy - and look who's behind it?
When the coalition UK government was formed following the last general election there was some guarded optimism among those who support open standards (many of whom also support the ideals of free...
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Raspbery Pis are in the oven!
Following the news that the Raspberry Pi foundation was auctioning 10 of the beta model B boards on eBay comes the news a lot of people have been waiting for: they've started manufacturing the...
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Are we too dependent on the USA for "our" WWW
By now you'll have heard and experienced the anti-SOPA protest. Wikipedia, Wired, Wordpress, Google, Twitpic and even this very tome were joined by probably thousands of smaller sites as large sections...
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23 years on and still people don't get free software
In 1989 The GNU project introduced the GPL - not the first occurrence of a free software licence but arguably the most important. Yet today in 2012 we still have large sections of the computing...
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