Peter
Ever wondered what that MD5sum and SHA1sum things are when you are downloading ISO images? Whether it's a Linux distro, or any other file, you might have seen these 'checksums' floating around.
Their purpose is to allow you to verify that you have a complete and uncorrupted copy of a file. If you can generate the same checksum with your copy of the file, then the file must be a …
Peter
Peter
NOTE: Adobe AIR isn't an open source product, but I think it's worthy of covering anyway due to its potential for bringing greater application compatibility to open source platforms.
Building applications that work across multiple platforms is always a challenge, but the web has provided a solution for some of those problems, by inherently being a cross-platform medium.
Sometimes the web isn't powerful enough, however, and there is no replacement …
Peter
NoteFinder is a desktop note-taking application, which is designed for keeping and organising snippets of text, whether that be notes, quotes, conversations and more.
The application works around a 'notebook' concept. When you first start up the application, you get a 'default' notebook where you can immediately start collecting notes. You can later add additional notebooks as your needs increase to keep things organised.
You add a new note by …