Good news guys! If you haven't decided whether or not to participate in the Open Web Asia-SEA 2010 conference in Kuala Lumpur from 13 to 14 July 2010, then here is a good reason why you should! You will be given 10% discount! So you'll be paying only RM180 for the conference pass instead of RM200. WHAT IS OWA? OpenWebAsia – SEA is a regional technology and web business conference that brin... more.

Let's face it, typography on the web is a major source of difficulty for web designers today. Many opt for common universal fonts and bring in new fonts requires some CSS tweaking. Well, Google aims to tackle this problem by introducing an open source font library, and an API that makes it easy to use the new fonts on your own webpage. You don't have to upload any font files, just embed the API co... more.

Songbird (another great app from MOZILLA) aims to do for media managers what Firefox did for Web browsers: trounce the standard bearer (iTunes, in this case) with customization, open-source ideology, and sheer performance. Actually built on the same codebase as Firefox, Songbird allows you to manage your music collection, buy songs, and load audio on your iPod. Songbird is the one iTunes altern... more.

I'm been using Ubuntu for quite a while, which I installed on my old HP Compaq laptop as a second platform for me to work with my programming stuff. Unlike any other Linux-based open source operating system (OS), Ubuntu is super fast and user friendly and a decent platform for your open source needs. So, yesterday, Ubuntu version 9.04 (code-named Jaunty Jackalope) was launched and I spent som... more.

If you're an educator looking for a free online system that offer tools to create your very own collaborative online environments, then you should look at RCampus. RCampus is a collaborative environment by Reazon Systems, Inc that is a one-stop shop for everything school related.  RCampus utilizes Open Education Management system that makes it easy to build personal and group websites, manage... more.

When we talk about open source, normally we will think of computer applications that comes with the tag "freeware" or "open development". With the recent development in the Public Domain and Free Culture Movement initiatives, more and more open access materials are made available to the world. While it's available for free, most materials are licensed under Creative Commons, in... more.

It was back in 2003 when I placed myself in the open-source community. As a web developer myself, I find Open Source concept intriguing and suits the current open society. Not only that it saves a lot of money (from buying commercial software), it also promotes constant development of a software without the limits of a specific software company or entity. Practically anyone (with programming knowl... more.

Cloud computing is the next big trend in the rapid development of World Wide Web (WWW). "It's become the phrase du jour,", the buzz phrase that most IT people would crave to be part of thanks to its major supporter - Google Inc. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition on the phrase. As a metaphor for the Internet, "the cloud" is a fam... more.