Tag Archives: open source

Restore Samsung Galaxy S to Original ROM from Telcel Mexico

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Gabriel Saldaña

Two weeks ago, I messed up my Galaxy S phone. I was having trouble with the back key activating by itself without touching it. As I’ve said before, I use Darky’s ROM instead of the crappy Samsung/Telcel default one. So … Continue reading →

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A website visitor tracking statistics free open source alternative to Google Analytics

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Gabriel Saldaña

Everyone that wants to know how his/her website’s traffic is doing has a form of “visitor counter” or web traffic analytics software. By what I’ve seen, the most popular one is Google Analytics. There’s a free and open source web … Continue reading →

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Chrome license makes Google more than the new Big Brother

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Yesterday’s big news was that Google released their own “open source” browser called Google Chrome. They released only the binaries for Windows, and even thought they claim to be open source, I don’t see where I can get the source … Continue reading →

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Identi.ca mode for Emacs

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Identi.ca is a free software microblogging service, similar to Twitter, based on the Status.net code base. I recently needed to update my status from Emacs, since its faster for me and easier. I’ve been using an an Emacs mode to … Continue reading →

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Free software hosting for free or open source projects

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

There are several services to host your project’s code on the web for free. But recently there’s been some outages on “very reliable” services like Gmail, Amazon and let’s not get started with Twitter. Also some service policies may bother … Continue reading →

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Firefox to support OGG in

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Open source browser Firefox is going to support Ogg Theora video natively without installing plugins and will support the new HTML 5 tag to embed the videos on web pages. Will be ready on 3.1 release. This is great news … Continue reading →

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