I’m a sucker for free software tools. And I do some programming in my spare time. So I was thrilled to find this article: 60+ Free Programming Tools
You’ve got to had it to Microsoft: they really know how to complicate a perfectly good file extension. For the average user like me .doc and .xls didn’t ever pose a problem. To coin a phrase frequently attributed to arch rival and CEO extraordinaire, Steve Jobs: it just worked. Well try saying that the next [...]
Lots of stuff I hadn’t heard of on this list – 69 Free or Open Source Tools For Students
Just in case you have been living the life as a hermitic troglodyte, Firefox 3 has been released and is in the wild. Go and download it.
Video conferencing is more than just a useful tool for home-based teleworkers: it’s an absolute necessity. If you are looking to video conference with friends or just don’t want to spend the money on a full-blown professional video conferencing application (many of which are bloated with extraneous and features you’ll never need), then it would [...]
As a telecommuter I frequently had to make trips to clients just to show them a mockup of something new, a list of changes etc. It gets a bit tedious after a few times, and more than time wasting. However, there are ways round this problem: web conferencing. But there are all sorts of flavours [...]
The launch of Vista has been far from perfect, some might even say disastrous. In fact, PC makers including Dell, HP and Lenovo are exploiting loopholes in their license agreements to continue to offer XP to customers. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Apple’s computer sales are growing 3 times faster than those of rival [...]
For a long time I have been frustrated by Adobe Acrobat and the never ending story of angst that comes with using it. Fortunately there are several very good alternatives to Acrobat out there, some of which are open source while others are freeware / shareware or paid. The moral of the story: if Adobe [...]