How to share notes and images using thepiratebay.org satellite websites: PasteBay and bayimg April 13, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, Freeware Reviews, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, MAC OS, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, apple, free software, freeware blog, freeware tip, freeware tips, windows.Tags: free, free hosting, free software, Free uncensored text hosting, Freeware, hosting, image, image backup, image hosting, notes, online, online feature, photo, photo collection, photo manager, text, text editor, text hosting, text notes
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Today, in our Freeware Page, we added a brief review about two, multiplatform free services offered by th piratebay.org. The first one is PasteBay which allows you to quickly create, save and protect (in a basic way) your own notes when browsing on internet. PasteBay is very intuitive, quick to use and effective. The only “trouble” could be the simple http connection (instead of https) and the password you choose that could be weak if you do not choose it in a proper way. The second online service offered by thepiratebay.org is bayimg which allows you to store images for your websites in 140 different formats. Each image could be uploaded till 100MB so it is possible to save online also high resolution images. We have spent five days testing the features offered by these two websites and we have really not found any problem or bug. Recommended!
How to install a new Linux distribution -Linux4One- on your Netbook Acer Aspire One January 11, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Linux Distros, Linux OS, Linux Tips, Linux distribution, Linux installation, Linux iso, Linux live USB, Linux on a USB, Netbook, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04.Tags: .xml, Acer Aspire One, canvas, cms, compliant, content management system, css, free, light weight cms, light-weight, lightweight, Linux4One, open source, PHP, plugin, skyblue, small business, standards, strict, tableless layout, valid, web site manager, xhtml
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Today, on our Linux Page (in Spanish), we have posted an enthusiastic review about Linux4One a very stable new Linux distribution which represents a real opportunity if you want to test a new OS on Your Acer Aspire One. Linux4One website is essential but well structured; unfortunately it does not contains many information so the best thing yo do is downloading their specially developed Ubuntu based Linux4One and test it. This particular distribution, with a customized Kernel, perfectly runs on our Aspire One: we did not find any problem with the hardware and smoothly passed all the tests. Last but not least, the Italian guys are developing a Linux4One special edition which should be mounted directly from a Usb key, we hpe it will be ready ASAP. Something you must try if you like Ubuntu and want it on your Aspire One!
FLAC: our favourite multiplatform (Linux, Windows, MAC OS X) Free Lossless Audio Codec! February 24, 2008
Posted by galigio in Audio, Audio formats, Computers & Internet, Flac, Free Music, Freeware, Linux, Mac OS X, Multiplatform software, Music, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, Windows freeware, free software, freeware blog, freeware tip, freeware tips, multimedia, multiplatform freeware, musica, opensource, windows.Tags: archival, archive, archiving, Audio, backup, codec, compression, compressor, decoder, encoder, Flac, free, lossless, lossless audio, Music
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It is true! MP3 format is the most common format we normally use in our everyday applications but MP3 is a lossy compression algorithm and it is not comparable with the quality of uncompressed audio formats as Monkey’s Audio, ALAC, WMA. This week, in our Freeware page, we posted a brief review about some particular features of FLAC: a multiplatform (Linux, Windows, MAC OS X) Free Lossless Audio Codec. Nowadays, FLAC is well and constantly supported by many music player producer. We compared FLAC and MP3 formats using the “Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major – Allegro” by Bach and the results were very interesting. For common listeners (as us) the audio quality was, more or less, the same but when we asked to a couple of friends (authentic music “hooligans”) to describe the difference between the two music files (FLAC and MP3) they spent more than 15 minutes of their (and our) time talking about “tones”, “pizzicato” and something else that I really do not remember at the moment! After the listening, when we compared the file extensions, we discovered that the FLAC file was five times bigger than the MP3 (25.6MB vs 5.1MB)… To conclude, we really think that FLAC represents a fantastic (and the best) lossless format for home stereo systems. On the other side, if you are not a music purist, MP3 could be the best choice for listening music on portable audio devices.
