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Freevo Media Centre | Home Theatre Platform HTPC & PVR
by cascamorto
& 8 others
magine a world where the tv guide is liquid, where the time slots are organised to suit your schedule. Imagine a place you can store all of your music, movies and photos for you and your family to enjoy. Imagine having access to all your games, podcasts, upto the minute weather and news reports. Imagine doing all of this for free. What a wonderful world that would be...
Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc. Primarily aimed at the Linux platform it is also possible to run on OSX and for the determined on Windows. It is the main mythtv alternative.
rules for living well
by blackgoldfish
Choose quality over quantity with everything - shoes, friends, food - everything.
Look into alternative forms of medicine.
Take the time to figure out who you really are, what you like and dislike, what you need and don't.
Live within your means and respect every dollar you make.
Cultivate a passion.
Eat Real Food! Stay away from processed and buy local whenever you can.
Refuse to give in to texting.
As hard as it is, acknowledge and work on whatever keeps you from living the life of your dreams.
Refuse to play small or dim your light in order to make others comfortable.
Listen to your body.
Spend part of every day in silence, even if it's ten minutes.
Create a living space that reflects who you are.
Make visual beauty a priority.
Tell people you love them often.
Be true to yourself at all costs.
Hathi Trust , Alternative à Google Books ? - l’éléphant Google Books apprivoisé? (complément) - 2008
by decembre
Olivier Ertzscheid fait un examen de l’Hathi Trust beaucoup plus complet, qui est bien plutôt (au moins dans le court/moyen terme) un complément (et une appropriation) de GB.- Une dernière chose qui me ravit à propos de l’Hathi Trust, c’est l’ordre des priorités (un ordre pour lequel j’ai plaidé à droite (ABF 2006) et à gauche (BMVR 2007): Hathi Trust n’est pas encore, faute d’interface (à venir), une bibliothèque numérique, c’est d’abord un réservoir (depository) de données. Dans l’ordre des priorités l’interface vient en dernier, après 1. la préservation et 2. l’équipement en métadonnées.
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October 2009
Flickr: Discussing Fluidr - an easy to use web alternative to Flickr in Flickr API
by decembre
A web-based Flickr viewer called Fluidr: www.fluidr.com it's in alpha at the moment but is quite stable. Fluidr is unique in a few ways. It offers a continuous pagination (infinite scroll) interface like Darckr and Flickriver but seamlessly turns into a slideshow with the press of a key (try hitting SPACEBAR). It also allows for adding faves and comments in the same interface (scroll or slideshow) rather than having to switch to a more cluttered one. Fluidr's interface is very simple, but allows you to view Flickr content in many ways. You can do the usual Explore/User/User Set/User Tag/Global Tag/Group Pool views, but you can also chose to explore a specific date using a calendar picker, view interesting videos from today or a date range (or an arbitrary date) and filter many of the previously mentioned views by photos only and videos only. Despite these options, it uses a common two line header that (I hope at least) isn't too confusing.
pyparsing
by karlcow
The pyparsing module is an alternative approach to creating and executing simple grammars, vs. the traditional lex/yacc approach, or the use of regular expressions. With pyparsing, you don't need to learn a new syntax for defining grammars or matching expressions - the parsing module provides a library of classes that you use to construct the grammar directly in Python.
IE, Chrome, Safari duped by bogus PayPal SSL cert • The Register
by srcmax
If you use the Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Apple Safari browsers to conduct PayPal transactions, now would be a good time to switch over to the decidedly more secure Firefox alternative.
September 2009
Alternative To (alternate software applications)
by wabaus
& 7 others
Find alternative software applications for common desktop programs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Metaprogramming is Your Friend
by karlcow
This article investigates some other metaprograms which, perhaps, we don't really notice, and some alternative metaprogramming techniques which, perhaps, we should be aware of.
Fancybox | Fancy lightbox alternative
by nicolargo
Un plugin jQuery pour afficher de manière design des images dans vos sites/blogs
XUL (XML User Interface Language) - MDC
by decembre
XUL (XML User Interface Language) is Mozilla's XML-based language that lets you build feature-rich cross platform applications that can run connected or disconnected from the Internet. These applications are easily customized with alternative text, graphics and layout so they can be readily branded or localized for various markets. Web developers already familiar with Dynamic HTML (DHTML) will learn XUL quickly and can start building applications right away. Open XUL Periodic Table in Firefox or another Gecko-based browser to see some XUL demos.
August 2009
Avant Window Navigator (AWN), une alternative à Cairo-Dock | Clapico's Blog (ou Clapico & Ubuntu)
by hugues
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator awn-manager
SomaFM
by paulantoinem
18 unique channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco. via somafm.com ...
La France a connu son pic de "bonheur intérieur brut" en 2001 - Société - Le Monde.fr
by paulantoinem
Le nouvel indice, créé comme une alternative au produit intérieur brut (PIB), tente de mesurer pour chaque année – en remontant jusqu'à 1980 – "le niveau de bien-être des Français" à ...
Canadian Plus Mustache Styling wax
by moustache
The Canadian Plus Mustache Styling Wax is a new and innovative family venture. As a newly founded venture we are excited in offering you a pleasant and enjoyable alternative to commercial brands."
IE6 No More : 72 sites veulent en finir avec Internet Explorer 6 - Numerama
by srcmax
(via)
En dehors des inénarrables problèmes de sécurité et de performance inhérents à Internet Explorer 6, ce dernier est surtout considéré comme responsable du ralentissement de l'"avancée du web". En effet, au lieu de se concentrer totalement sur le respect des standards du consortium W3C, les développeurs sont régulièrement obligés de concevoir une version alternative du site pour ce navigateur, afin que tous les internautes puissent accéder au site web dans des conditions convenables. Et à l'heure où des sites comme YouTube ou Facebook sont toujours à a la recherche d'un modèle de croissance rentable pour engranger du cash, la décision de ne plus supporter IE6 dans les prochaines semaines n'y est sans doute pas étrangère
