Category Archives: opensource

google reader replacement for geeks

Google Reader is quitting on us and there doesn’t seem to be an alternative if you don’t want something that tries to make your feeds look all fancy and shiny eye-candy-ish like Feedly or most of the alternatives I saw. The things I loved in Google Reader are: 1. Accessible from anywhere (which means web-based [...]

securely wiping your hard drive without dban

Well if DBAN doesn’t cut it for some reason there’s always a more native Linux way to do this. Step one is getting a Linux live CD, DVD or USB stick and boot from that. I used the Debian Live CD myself, which boots into character mode so you don’t end up with XServer not [...]

donating bandwidth to open source

If you’re like me and you have a big fat internet pipe entering your home then you probably have a lot of unused upload bandwidth at the end of the month. In fact, if you have one of those flat-rate unlimited bandwidth kind of packages which you lucky foreigners seem to have in abundance, then [...]

getting good stats without google analytics

Google is huge and scary these days isn’t it? I mean they track our ass all over the place and I was actually helping them to do so. On my blog I was using Google’s free Analytics service to keep track of who, when, where and why people came to my blog. The stats are [...]

how to edit mp3 id3 tags with free software

So you’re putting those cool mp3′s online filled with great music. But when people download them, all they get to read off their fancy smartphone, iPod or mp3 player’s display is an ugly ass file name. Bummer. Wouldn’t it be sweet as pie if you’d see an album title scroll by, maybe even an artist [...]

the ultimate geek music player?

I can’t believe it took me so long to find this gem but Foobar 2000 is the most geeky and cool media player by far. The name alone is good enough to get a geek to drool, download and check it out. What’s great even better is that its Open Source freeware, is hugely customizable [...]

randomly interesting links

Since I’m a tad preoccupied with building a house and all I’m going to use that as an excuse to dump some links here to stuff I ran into over the last couple of weeks that are interesting enough to share with you, my dear blog reader: Such as a web site where you can [...]