That abysmal moment when you want to play a little Marathon and your favorite games repository is down.. Some of you may have experience the discomfort of this is late December with GetDeb — and subsequently PlayDeb — went down for the count. Get Deb and PlayDeb had been around for years and has been [...]
Ingress: Doing Google’s Legwork, Literally
If you’re at all plugged into the world of social networking and/or Android, you’ve almost certainly heard of Google’s latest experiment: the invite-only and Android exclusive meta-game, Ingress. Thanks to a fierce marketing campaign including multiple tie-in websites and heavy promotion on Google+, the buzz about Ingress is incredibly strong; especially considering most people don’t even know [...]
Abian Reader: Create An Open Source App For Your Website
Today, to celebrate 1 year online, we are pleased to announce a new open source project for Android by a new software house that we have been working very closely with. Abian Software. Abian Reader What is Abian Reader? Abian Reader is an open source library, hosted at Git-hub, that powers The Powerbase‘s new app! [...]
Five Games to Show off Your Android Tablet
Whether you’ve been an Android tablet user since the days of Honeycomb on the Motorola XOOM, or you just opened up your brand new Nexus 7, one thing is for sure: you’ve been looking for software which really shows off what your tablet is capable of. Just as in the PC era, games are the [...]
NASA Expands Android Application Collection with “Earth Now”
NASA has put out a few absolutely stunning iPhone and iPad applications, but unfortunately for us not living under Apple’s thumb, the majority of them haven’t been ported over to Android. While that situation is still a long way from changing, the recently released “Earth Now” for Android shows that keeping the two mobile operating [...]
OsciPrime: Open Source Oscilloscope for Android
Since 2010, the OsciPrime project has aimed to turn your Android smartphone or tablet into a fully functional oscilloscope. From its simple beginnings as a school project to the current run of dedicated hardware, OsciPrime is an excellent example of a open source product’s creation from start to finish. OsciPrime Legacy The original version of OsciPrime, now referred to as [...]
Valve Picks Up Steam With Influence From Larabel
UPDATE 07/25: Valve Teases L4D2 With Zombie Penguins We all know now that Steam is really coming to Linux. According to Gabe Newell, you can expect it this year. The ‘Steam-engine’ picked up additional locomotion yesterday when it brought developer David White on board. This is of course after being influenced my Michael Larabel, founder [...]
Amarok 2.6 Polishes, Adds Transcoding
Amarok, long regarded collectively as the most advanced and useful audio player for Linux, gains news features with version 2.6. On board for this release is a “complete overhaul of the iPod and iPhone support” libraries. This is great news for owners of iOS devices, though it seems there is still work to be done [...]
Getting Work Done On Android
With increasingly powerful Android smartphones and tablets, and the vast usability enhancements Android itself has gotten through its various incarnations, it’s increasingly likely that your day to day computer use can be reduced or eliminated by using your mobile device. I myself have not had a desktop computer since 2010 when I first got an [...]
Winners Announced For International Space Apps Challenge
While budgetary constraints and increasing commercial competition has clearly taken its toll on NASA, one area where the iconic government institution has unquestionably made headway is the implementation of open source. The launching of code.NASA a few months back was an excellent start, open sourcing various pieces of NASA software so that anyone in the world [...]
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