The statistics show that Adobe Flash is installed in a whooping 98% of computers connected to the Internet. The use of Flash, a Web developer is able to give his imagination a free field and build magnificent multimedia intensive but also functional sites.

But so far, building Flash sites had a singular disadvantage. However, search engines had no way of indexing unless the Web developer also included text in its Flash site explaining what the site or rather on the content of the site is all about.

Some time ago, Adobe has published the file format Flash SWF as an open specification that encourages third-party developers to create applications that could make Flash files. Adobe has now gone one step further and collaborates closely with Internet search engine companies Yahoo and Google for help in indexing Flash. It is a clear green light for all web developers to start creating sites that are heavy on the Flash content. It also means the Web developers can reduce the size of their Flash sites by deleting the text.

You should know that the latest version of Adobe Flash Player is available for Linux as a platform and make Flash which is a universal format to share and present content on the Web.

Read the official information from Adobe and the announcement of Google.

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Of course, you know what open source and free software means. Or you would not visit this blog and reading his articles in the first place. But it is always nice to get the viewpoint of one of the main stream media. And if the media in question is the BBC, then it is all the more sweet.

I was an avid fan of the technology of the BBC program called "Click" formerly known as the "Click Online". In the last episode, Spencer Kelly - Click on the presenter shows you how to build a functional machine working for nothing. The BBC published an article by Kelly called "Open Source alternative" which gives an overview of how FOSS can enrich our lives for information zilch. The article also a short interview with Paul Allen who is the editor of Computer Active magazine.

Read the article to bbc.co.uk.

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The following is a list of approximately 100 best open source applications, that help make Linux more usable for people. This list is intended to show the potential Linux users is that there really a lot of large, efficient, productive and usable range of free, open source applications. This list has tended to look to tools that are invaluable in the development related to the Web.

Read the entire list of 100 applications open source. You'll find very useful applications that you did not know existed.

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