If you cycle back 10 years, the sophistication of and available tools for working with video, audio, and graphics--including working with them online--lagged far behind what is available today. The improvement in the available tools has hardly been lost on the open source world, where some best-of-breed tools are available at absolutely no cost. In this post, you'll find a roundup of our most significant posts on open source tools for video, audio and graphics. There are many gem applications to be found here.

Open-Xchange: Another Big SaaS Partner Win. The open source competitor to Microsoft Exchange gets a very big partner.

Making a Videoloop With Kino and Audacity. How to make a short loop of video that transitions through five video segments and back to the beginning again.

Risks in Google Killing Adobe Flash. Google may be headed for heavy scrutiny from the Justice Department.

Sorry, English Major, the Engineers Have Triumphed. More thoughts on whether Google makes us stupid.

Audacity is a really popular open source audio editor used by many people to make podcasts, create ringtones, remove vocals, and pretty much anything else you want to do with sound files. Indeed, we're big fans of the project here at OStatic, so we're glad to hear its development team say this week's release of Audacity 1.3.10 beta, "brings us very close to our goal of a new 2.0 Release."

Audacity's new release contains several bug fixes and improvements, and is strongly recommended for Windows 7 users as a replacement for the stable 1.2.6 version. Important changes in the beta version include: