Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sourceforge is a great place to find quality (and some times not so quality) code and programs for your computer most of the programs are written for windows or Linux but there is a growing number for OS X. It does look a little daunting at first but once you learn the drill it is as simple as download.com (without all the fees and shareware licenses). The internet photo galleries are actual source code that you download onto your computer, unzip, read the README file to configure and then upload onto a server. Usually they are written in Perl (which is hard to configure and buggy) or PHP (which is easy and stable). I used one of the PHP scripts to put together www.westernbookexchange.com . I started knowing just HTML and Java script and was able to set up and even add to my website. I have heard that Gallery is the best way to put up a photo gallery on the internet and has many features. They are coming out with a version 2 sometime soon I think (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery/ or http://gallery.menalto.com). You can usually find helpful people or documentation on their website. But SourceForge isn't only for internet scripts, it has many full fledged programs. For example Miranda IM (instant messaging) FileZilla (the best FTP program out there), Bittorrent++(download files from other users). Most projects release a pre-made binary so you install them like any other program, no compiling or work needed. Each of these when you find their main page (FileZilla for example http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/) scroll down to "*Latest File Releases" and in the "**FileZilla" row click on download. This will take you to a confusing looking page of a bunch of rows. The rows that are highlighted pink show the files that you may want. "*FileZilla_2_2_1b_setup.exe <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/filezilla/FileZilla_2_2_1b_setup.exe?download>" is the file you want to click on (FileZilla_2_2_1b_src.zip <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/filezilla/FileZilla_2_2_1b_src.zip?download> is the source code if you reeealy wanted to compile it yourself). The next page you see is another confusing list, these are the mirrors that you can download the file from, find a place close to where you live and click on the picture of ones and zeros that is beside the file-size in that row (at first I would always click on the host icon and it would confuse me). This will reload the page and you should be prompted if you want to download a file. TaDa now just double click the file and install it. Some other cool open source programs ZMatrix - http://sourceforge.net/projects/zmatrix/ - A really good dynamic wallpaper of The Matrix running down your screen OpenOffice - openoffice.org - Replaces and surpasses Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and even opens microsofts files. Mozilla - mozilla.org - Surpasses Internet Explorer with a built in popup blocker, tabbed browsing, and built by the user for the user Firebird - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/ - faster and better than mozilla but not quite as user freindly and still a little buggy I have blathered enough, David Degner - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html