The amazing open source cloud storage software ownCloud has recently released a new major version that brings a number of new features. There are a large number of cloud storage apps available today, however they are all closed, proprietary systems that each need their own client, and work with only their own hosting. With ownCloud you can actually own you data as you can host it anywhere, on any hosting service that offers PHP and MySQL support. There are even dedicated ownCloud hosting services available now days, much like there is Wordpress or Drupal hosting.It can perhaps be best compared with Google Drive, which forms a base service with a number of included apps, but can be extended with other applications which can use it as storage. With ownCloud you get an image gallery app, a...

Those who develop on Windows will be familiar with Microsoft Visual Studio Express edition products. For the rest, the Express editions are free versions of Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio development suite. The Express editions include a basic IDE and compilers for creating Windows applications. There are express editions available for C++, C#, Basic, and web development.These are great tools for starting developers to create apps for Windows that have been compiled using Microsoft’s own tools. These compilers are used by most popular software including open source software such as Firefox, Python etc. For the many developers working on these open source products, Visual Studio Express is often the only way. It appears that in the next iteration of Visual Studio, the Express...

GitHub has been offering an official GitHub app for Mac OSX from quite a while now, and now they have launched one for Windows as well. Git on Windows has never been as well supported as it has been on Linux, however now with an official client for Windows there is a good set of tools including a GUI for Windows as well. The new GitHub app features all the Git command line tools, and even comes with support for PowerShell — which is Microsoft’s answer to Linux’s much better command line shell. With its integration with PowerShell it can offer auto-completions for Git commands, making it much simpler to use via the command line. While it does offer integration with PowerShell, one can also optionally use the standard command line, Git Bash, or even a custom command line...