TechRaga

It is hard to believe, but Google has introduced a developer signup fee to make the browser much safer (?). From now, if a developer wants to publish his extension, theme or app (Chrome App Store coming soon) in the official extension gallery – he is required to pay developer signup fee

Flock, the browser based on Mozilla Firefox and optimized for social networking addicts, is switching to Chromium. The Flock has released a new beta version today developed on the Chromium platform.

The most popular blogging software and open source CMS, WordPress, is going to celebrate its seventh birthday on 27 May, 2010.

VideoLAN, the developer of popular open source media player: VLC Media Player, has released a new release candidate of VLC with WebM support.

All fonts in this directory are available for use on any website under an open source license and served by Google servers. This service provides the easiest way to use fonts on the internet.

Canonical, the company behind Linux based operating system: Ubuntu, is considering a new default browser for UNR. The Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) is Ubuntu’s special version, optimized for netbooks and similar small screen devices.

Ever seen Mozilla Firefox logo crop circle? Firefox lovers at Oregon State University has created a Firefox logo crop circle.

Reddit.com has migrated its persistent cache to Cassandra. Many other big sites like Digg, Facebook and Twitter have already adopted Cassandra because of its performance and extensibility.

Twitter is going to replace MySQL database system with Cassandra, the Open Source distributed database management system started by Facebook. The top reasons to go with Cassandra include highly scalable writes and a healthy open source community behind the project.

A cool wallpaper featuring all Ubuntu mascots.

There are several ways to create your own social networking site like Orkut, Facebook or MySpace. I am listing few ways here.

QtWeb is a wonderful web browser with a lot of features and powerful capabilities. It is a must software for your computer.

BJP : The Bhartiya Janta Party, largest political party of India, is now the most high-tech political party in the country. The Party is using Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS) to computerised its offices across the country.

According to an article by Marco Fioretti on Linux.com, BJP says it plans to implement Wi-Fi connectivity in all its headquarters plus nationwide IP video telephony and unified messaging networks.
Prodyut Bora, national convenor of BJP information technology cell, says, “We have found that it is possible to create an entire enterprise IT ecosystem using only …

The trend of Free and Open Source Softwares is growing worldwide . For countries like India , where Pirated and Cracked versions of softwares are first choice , FOSS is just like a boon .

I was very happy to read a short story on popular Indian FOSS products . This story is published at the homepage of Indiatimes Infotech .
The story lists some very successful Open Source  products . Read the story here .
It is very tough to predict that will FOSS rule India , as people have another Free …