January 2008

Miro is a free, open source media player that combines internet TV, video feeds, YouTube, torrents, and HD content in one app for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

A Python script that checks your blog feed's MD5 hash and automatically pings Technorati, Icerocket, and Google Blog Search via XML-RPC when new posts are detected.

safe-browsing 0.0.1 for the Epiphany browser checks URLs against Google Safe Browsing, disabling the view pane and showing a status bar warning on phishing pages.

cc-license-viewer 1.1.0 for the Epiphany browser detects Creative Commons licensed pages via RDF metadata or license badge and shows an icon in the status bar.

Google's Highly Open Participation Contest lets students aged 13+ contribute to open source projects like GNOME, Drupal and Python for cash prizes and t-shirts.

Run a full GNOME desktop session on a remote Linux server over SSH with X11 forwarding — no VNC needed, just three config changes and the -X flag.

TCO08 registrations close February 1, 2008 — compete in algorithm, component, marathon, or studio tracks for a share of the $260,000 prize purse.

Bill Gates announced CardSpace will support OpenID — a landmark moment signalling that Microsoft's proprietary identity solution had finally caught up with the web.

OpenID beats Microsoft CardSpace — it's cross-platform, decentralised, and VeriSign's SeatBelt Firefox plugin now adds phishing protection on par with CardSpace.

Add Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Reddit, Facebook and more social bookmarking buttons to every Blogger post by editing the template with a small HTML snippet.

Complete step-by-step guide to install WSO2 WSF/PHP on Lighttpd with PHP5 FastCGI on Debian, including consuming a real SOAP web service to verify the setup works.

Mohanjith.net now has a wiki page on AboutUs.org — a community-edited directory entry covering the site's content and purpose.