Subsonic (http://subsonic.org) is an open source web-based application that provides remote access to your music library, podcasts, films and television episodes from a variety of devices, including Android and the iPhone.

I have blogged previously about how to deploy an SSH-based VPN solution (http://blog.brightpointuk.co.uk/deploying-ssh-based-vpn-solution) enabling safe remote control of corporate assets without needing to worry about the health status of the machine doing the remote controlling.
It is possible to access the same SSH VPN server from an iPhone device using the iSSH application.

iSSH is not free, it must be purchased via the iTunes App Market, but once installed configuration is quick and simple and works via both WiFi and 3G connections.

I have blogged previously about the open source Piwik web analytics software package, which enables webmasters to keep track of visitors to their web sites, including where those visitors came from, which search engines referred them, what keywords they typed in, which other web sites referred them or what marketing campaigns drove their traffic. In short, it's a great little utility and a worthy rival to Google Analytics.

I admit this is extremely lazy, especially seeing as I already have a Bluetooth mouse, but that doesn't mean it didn't bring a smile to my face when it worked!

Android devices can be used as remote control devices for the free VLC Media Player application on both Windows and MacOS. In this post I am using a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard and VLC Media Player 1.0.5 ....and an HTC Legend.

I have blogged previously about the open source Piwik web analytics software (http://blog.brightpointuk.co.uk/piwik) which enables you to track visits to your web sites and generate reports based on time, region, referrer, client, search engine, keywords and more.

A client application is available for Android that enables you to access these reports from your mobile device to keep tabs on how your web sites are faring:

Again not strictly on-topic, but very geeky and therefore cool. The Turnkey Domain Controller is a Linux-based file and print server that can be used as a Primary Domain Controller for Windows hosts...without the need for a Windows Server, ideal for a small, mobile or temporary office.
The file server feature is based on Samba, and print server functionality uses the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS).

It is already possible to run Windows on Mac computers, either by booting into the operating system via BootCamp, or by running a virtualised machine image using tools such as Microsoft Virtual PC (for PowerPC Macs) or Intel-based tools such as VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop. Applications can even be run in individual windows on the Mac desktop without the need to see the entire Windows desktop.

This post is definitely off-topic, but having used the Drupal platform for the Brightpoint GB Tech Blog for almost a year, I've added a number of modules to the site over that time and in the spirit of the blog, which is to share knowledge, I thought fellow Drupal enthusiasts might be interested in how I've customised the standard Drupal installation.

At the time of writing the site is running Drupal 6.12 on CentOS 5.3 (http://www.centos.org)

Vyatta (http://www.vyatta.com) is an open source software project enabling administrators to build firewall, VPN and routing appliances on x86-based hardware of their choice.
Vyatta also develop their own hardware appliances available for purchase.

Features

IP and Routing Protocols

• BGPv4
• OSPFv3
• RIPv2
• Static Routes

IPv6

• BGP
• OSPFv3
• IPv6 Firewalling

IP Address Management

• Static
  

MRTG is the Multi Router Traffic Grapher: a free utility that graphically displays traffic levels on your network. It provides a quick and useful way of monitoring bandwidth usage, potential bottlenecks and the general ‘health’ of your network all from your web browser.

Available for both Windows and Linux platforms, it can be downloaded free of charge from http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/download.en.html

In order to install MRTG on Linux, the machine will need to be running a web server with Perl support enabled. Select this option when installing the Linux OS.