Jaslabs: High performance Software

By Justin Silverton

With christmas coming up on Monday, I have decided to come with this list of some last-minute open source gift ideas.

1) Neuros OSD

The First Open Source Linux Embedded Media Center.

Features:

• Watch your favorite TV show or movies anytime, anywhere.
• Digitize your home movies.
• Play movies downloaded from the internet on your TV.
• Hold a slide show of your latest road trip on your TV.
• Capture your video game highlights and email to friends.

2) open source beer

Beer is always a good gift..in any form..but why not make it better?

3) Sakura mp3 player kit

This player features a shuffle mode, basic track navigation, volume control, FAT32 support, fragmented file support, an unlimited number of files on the root directory, and high quality playback. Files at 256Kbps can be played without a hitch. Variable bitrate files are supported with peaks up to 320Kbps.

4) An issue/subscription to free software magazine

The only magazine worldwide that is dedicated to free software as a whole. Each issue contains high quality, in-depth articles that cover a wide variety of free software related topics.

5) Stuffed Tux

6) mvix wireless HD media center

It can do Mpeg-1/2/4, VOB, WMV 9, DivX, and Xvid. It’ll play your MP3’s, WMA’s, AAC’s, Ogg files, or straight-up WAV and AC3. It can do it all from its internal hard drive, an external USB drive, or even stream off of your other computers over the network.

7) InstantMusic Vinyl & Cassette Ripper

Liberate your old media into glorious digital technology with the InstantMusic Vinyl & Cassette Ripper. Simply hook up an old turntable or cassette deck to the InstantMusic and plug it in into an available USB port on your PC. The included software allows you to convert your music to MP3 files, or burn directly to CD. It even smartly detects the gaps between songs to divide that old Journey LP into individual MP3 files perfect for transfer to your newfangled iPod.

8) The linux fish

9) Book: Hacking the cable modem

It goes inside the device that makes Internet via cable possible and, along the way, reveals secrets of many popular cable modems, including products from Motorola, RCA, WebSTAR, D-Link and more.

10) Book: Just For Fun: Linus Torvalds Biography

In this witty and engrossing narrative, Linus Torvalds, the brilliant mastermind behind the latest Internet revolution, in collaboration with writer David Diamond, chronicles his transformation from a pale, skinny Helsinki college kid to an international folk hero. What began as a childhood hobby soon became the astonishing phenomenon known as the LINUX operating system.