Category: CoolTools

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Amazon releases Lumberyard, a free AAA game engine. A platform for legal ed of the future?

Amazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for you to create the highest-quality games, connect your games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch.

— Amazon Lumberyard

Eventually sometime is going to take a tool set like this and figure out how to build a game that simulates at least some of the American legal system. A simulated world with lots of property, contacts, torts, and legal issues and the courts to resolve the issues. Law students would engage each other at different levels to identify and pursue legal issues. Non-player characters would appear as judges, potential clients, and senior attorneys. It would be interesting.

Checkout the Lumberyard announcement video:

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Open source alternative to Google and Microsoft cloud collaboration tools

Like the idea of having a cloud office suite, but not crazy about being locked into Microsoft Office 365 or Google Docs software-as-a-service (SaaS) ? Two open-source companies, ownCloud and Kolab Systems, are working on enabling an office suite for your own private cloud.

Kolab, like ownCloud, is using Collabora’s cloud version of the open-source LibreOfficeoffice suite, Collabora CloudSuite. The desktop version of LibreOffice is my favorite office suite.

A cloud office suite alternative to Microsoft and Google – CSC Blogs http://blogs.csc.com/2016/02/02/a-cloud-office-suite-alternative-to-microsoft-and-google/

Soon these tools will ready to go and we can finally have real control over out data.

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Tips for locking down your data and protecting your privacy on the Internet

Your online privacy is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain consisting of you, your ISP, and the places you visit on the Internet.

Source: Tips for locking down data and protecting privacy | Opensource.com

The article recommends you run your own server in your house to have the best control over your data. With a server you can control email and run your own secure storage cloud. Not a bad idea.