Support it, know it, love it. Without a community of open source developers, we wouldn't have alternatives to often very pricey software, and in some instances we wouldn't even have software made with the features we want! This week's Free App Friday celebrates you, the open source developer, and you, the open source user. Keep on keepin' on, and enjoy these three free Mac apps.
Sometimes, you don't really trust those dearest to you. So, you should do two things: 1) Find people you do trust, 2) encrypt your stuff. Yep, and you can use TrueCrypt to do it! Create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and then mount it. You can encrypt flash drives or hard drives to hide your personal files and keep those nosy buggers out of your stuff.
Perian calls itself the "swiff-army knife for QuickTime" and that it is. Play any kind of video component with QuickTime by installing this into your System Preferences and never run into any encoding problems every again. Online Editor Roberto Baldwin totally swears by it.
When my friends call me up in a tizzy about needing Microsoft Word to open up a file or compose a paper, I tell them to just download Open Office. The open source office suite has everything you might need from Word, Excel and the rest, in addition to plug-ins that let you open up Office documents and edit them.
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5n4r35
June 18, 2011 at 5:00pm
Since Sun Microsystems was taken over by Oracle work on OpenOffice.org has pretty much gone to a stop. And I'm a little worried that it may not be available for very much longer see Oracles attitude toward open source stuff. (ie case against Android.) too bad because OOo was/is really good. Luckily the OpenSource community has solved the problem and created LibreOffice. Pretty much the same but there is no Corp behind it so it's 100% OpenSource. I have now made it my official replacement for OOo. Believe it or not it is actually better than OOo. I love open source!
