From the community, for the community

The Open-PC is a PC for everyday use built by the Linux community for the Linux community. We use only free software. Your help will be welcomed, to make our project even better.

What is special about the Open-PC?

• Hardware and Software is selected by the Linux Community
• The PC is preconfigured and easy to use by everybody
• Telephone and Email support is included.
• Only free software is used, including the drivers
• Only fully documented hardware is used
• There are different manufacturers who build and sell the Open-PCs
• A part of the price is a donation to KDE
• Everything, including the software, is developed in the open. Everybody can contribute.

A video walkthough of some of the must know tips and tricks for the Samsung Galaxy S2. Details and screenshots at http://thehandheldblog.com/2011/06/14/galaxy-s2-tips-tricks/

SickStache is an open source application to manage your SickBeard server.

Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sickstache&hl=en
Source and apk: https://code.google.com/p/sick-stashe/
License: GPLv3

Access all your contact information (GAL) from your Exchange server.

Want to lookup your colleague’s information in Exchange but find your Android phone lacking?

Unfortunately the Global Address List (GAL) lookup currently available in Android is limited in functionality. It only looks up email addresses and does not return anything more. This could be frustrating when you are trying to use your phone to look up your colleague’s phone number or office location.

This application looks up the GAL contact database, and returns ALL data corresponding to the contact that is available on the server. It also allows you to save the contact information retrieved to your phone for easy access.

This app supports GAL lookups on

• Exchange 2003
• Exchange 2007
• Exchange 2010
• Google Apps for Business / Education
• Zimbra

License: Apache 2.0
Source and apk:https://code.google.com/p/corporateaddressbook/
Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vivekiyer.GAL&hl=en

ISP/Mobile/Data Usage/Tolls/Leisure usage monitoring all in one App.

★ Features ★

• Monitors you local cell/wifi usage
• Setup alerts to notify you when over ideal or % usage
• Monitors multiple ISP/Mobile/Travel/Tolls
• Powered by QuotaXML with access to 100′s providers worldwide
• User created providers are supported via the free developers kit
• Dropbox sync support
• Widget support
• PIN security

Market:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.southfreo&hl=en
License: Gplv3
Sources: https://github.com/southfreo/QuotaForAndroid

Access your personal Ampache music cloud anywhere. Ampache.NET is a music player for the Ampache media server optimized for tablets and ICS

License: MIT
Sources: https://gitorious.org/ampache-net
Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=johnmooreampachenet.johnmooreampachenet&hl=en

FindMyPhone tries to locate your phone by GPS and network location and communicate it back to the owner. Currently supports activating by sending a secret message via SMS. The resulting location is sent via SMS

Market link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.erikofsweden.findmyphone&feature=also_installed

website
http://erikofsweden.blogspot.com/p/findmyphone.html

sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/findmyphone/files/

Groupe d'utilisateurs Zotero au Québec.

The fast, reliable way to make localhost part of the Web.

PageKite makes local websites or SSH servers publicly accessible in mere seconds, and works with any computer and any Internet connection.

It's also 100% Open Source.

Ceux qui nous connaissent savent que nous sommes partisans d’une plus grande utilisation des logiciels libres. Nous constatons souvent dans notre travail (enseignements et recherches en lien avec les technologies éducatives), qu’ils sont méconnus. Conséquemment, des décideurs agissent à partir de savoirs qui ne sont pas à jour, voire incomplets. Les logiciels libres pourraient pourtant aider l’école québécoise à gérer ou intégrer plusieurs « différences ». Voici, en quelques lignes, une présentation des logiciels libres et, surtout, une petite discussion à propos de la valeur ajoutée potentielle et des avantages que ces logiciels pourraient apporter.

Scanner For Zotero brings Zotero's magic wand tool out into the physical world. Scan the ISBN barcode on any book, and Scanner For Zotero will fetch that item's bibliographic info from the web and allow you to add it to your Zotero library.

Access your Zotero library from your mobile device! Edit and view your library, sync, and work offline. Zandy provides a simple interface to all your research. Browse and modify the items in your library, add new items, view attachments, take and edit item notes, search your library, and add webpages from the Android browser, with more features coming soon!

See http://www.gimranov.com/avram/w/zandy-user-guide for a complete guide to using Zandy. If you have Zandy 1.0 already, see the update note, http://wp.me/p1i2jM-2U

For more information on the Zotero project, the premier system for managing research and bibliographic data, see the project site at http://www.zotero.org/.

Zandy is a free software project, licensed under the Affero GPL v3. By buying the paid application on the Android Market, you support the future development of this app and ensure its further improvement. All future releases of the software will be free updates bringing new capabilities and bugfixes.

To file bug reports or feature requests, please see the project repository at https://github.com/ajlyon/zandy/. The full source code is also available at that address.

If you find that Zandy doesn't fit your needs, satisfaction is guaranteed: just send me an email at zandy@gimranov.com, and I'll refund the purchase price.

Please note that Zandy has no official connection to the Zotero project and its home institution at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

When trying to scan a magazine, I get a short "error fetching metadata" message. Books import fine, though.

Possibly related:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/13176/issn/

When trying to scan magazines I always get "unknown barcode type". I have a similar problem with Zandy, perhaps related:
https://github.com/ajlyon/zandy/issues/91

Zotero forum related discussion:

Possibly related:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/13176/issn/

[author]Doug Vitale[/author]

(Québec) Plus de 1200 employés de Revenu Québec ont pu acheter à des fins personnelles, pour seulement 11 $, la suite Microsoft Office Professional, d'une valeur de 669 $. C'est donc un avantage de plus de 800 000 $ que Microsoft avait consenti, avant la fin de 2011, aux employés de l'Agence québécoise du revenu.
[...]
[L]a région administrative de Paris (Île-de-France) a annoncé qu'elle offrirait une nouvelle version de la suite LibreOffice aux lycéens, à leurs parents, leurs professeurs et au personnel administratif, soit près d'un million d'utilisateurs, pour la rentrée 2012.

LibreOffice, suite bureautique

L'expert en suites bureautiques Raymond Ouellette décrit les multiples qualités et fonctionnalités de cette suite bureautique, qui n'a rien à envier à ses concurrentes. Utilisée dans plusieurs ministères importants en France, elle ne trouve pas preneur au Québec dans les administrations publiques... Étrange!

Questions de Chantal Patry, Service local du RÉCIT, CS Harricana

Avez-vous testé le logiciel WordQ avec LibreOffice?
Avez-vous éprouvé des problèmes avec certaines fonctions essentielles dont le suivi du curseur lors de la lecture et le suivi de la boîte de prédiction de mots lors de l’écriture? Si oui, qu’avez-vous fait pour remédier à cela?

CSIS is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Center’s 220 full-time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and develop policy initiatives that look to the future and anticipate change.