Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is at the center of many Open Source communities and is often hailed as a natural support medium for the community. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore whether the now aging IRC medium is still relevant, how useful it is to end users and how it can be used to spread knowledge inside communities.
Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge share a few festive words to the wonderful Shot Of Jaq community.
It is not often you hear the words “iPhone Killer” thrown around the place and taken in any way seriously, but Android has been getting hopes and expectations a-pumping. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge crack open the story and explore the opportunities and risks that Google face in how the Open Source community see this exciting new mobile system.
Just when you thought that the humble book was destined to be a footnote in history’s own book of historic footnotes, the increasingly competitive E-Book market is making books more exciting and more accessible for everyone. Once the almost exclusive domain of the Amazon Kindle, a wealth of new E-Book devices are heating up the game. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge take stroll through the many issues involved and try to shed light on the E-Book smackdown.
Are we, beautiful denizens of the internet that we are, destined to spend our lives grovelling for a decent broadband connection? Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge question whether there really are decent ISPs out there, and if there are why they’re not rolling in money from the entire open source community.
In the Linux desktop world, Quickly has been causing quite a stir, with tales of easier application development, offering another way to help the Linux desktop rock that little bit harder. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge take the hype for a spin, talk about some applications they have written that use it (such as Lernid) and kick off another Shot Of Jaq community discussion about what opportunities Quickly holds for itch scratchers everywhere.
We want your your thoughts, we want to know if you have used Quickly, what you wrote, what you think and what you hope for in the future. Go on…take a listen and throw a comment at us…
Lots of people have said: is there an Ogg Vorbis podcast feed for Shot Of Jaq? Well, I can now happily announce that there is. See the footer at the bottom of the page, or point your Ogg-capable podcatcher at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ShotOfJaqOgg. Sorry it took so long.
In the first (of many) Jaqbacks, Stuart Langridge and Jono Bacon look at your emails and what’s going on in the Shot of Jaq community! The Jaqback shots appear outside the regular show schedule, so you won’t ever miss a show: email us your thoughts and opinions, or tell us here on shotofjaq.org!
With the inclusion of PiTiVi into the next release of Ubuntu, video editing — the kind of video editing that doesn’t involve repeated software crashes — may finally be making its way to the free desktop. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge look at the state of play in video editors on Linux, and ask the question: have we now reached the stage where you can use your desktop of choice to put your dog on YouTube?
OpenOffice.org is constantly criticised for having a complex and wrong user interface. The office suite’s UI is undergoing changes, though, through their recently-announced Project Renaissance, a plan to “create a User Interface so that OpenOffice.org becomes the users’ choice not only out of need, but also out of desire”. Stuart Langridge and Jono Bacon talk about what Renaissance means for OpenOffice.org and the open source desktop.
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