December 3, 2009
The other day Jorge showed you how you can run Chrome OS off a USB drive in this exceptional article. As you might know, Google has released the source code for Chrome OS as Chromium OS, much like they did with the Chrome Web Browser, giving people ample opportunity to play along with the open [...]
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November 24, 2009
I wrote about a favorite application of mine called Texter last week. You can see that post here. A lot of readers wrote in asking about alternatives due to the fact that Texter sometimes interferes with people’s systems ““ especially when working with Portuguese and Japanese. I guess I configured mine properly to stay out [...]
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November 15, 2009
Everyone who spends a fair amount of time on the computer has a few favorite applications, the ones you like for one reason or another. Maybe they help you get your work done faster or you like their looks and feel or perhaps because these are free. And sometimes there are software you find irksome [...]
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November 6, 2009
I downloaded this 4.9MB file from Google Code. QMMander is a free open source Windows Explorer alternative and it is pretty cool. It gives you a dual pane experience to relieve you from the pain of having to open two Explorer windows to drag and drop files between. But that’s not all ““ no sir [...]
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November 3, 2009
Microsoft’s Outlook is the big brother of Outlook Express, which is Window’s default desktop eMail client. Outlook is part of Microsoft’s Office suite. It comes with a lot of extra features compared to Outlook Express, including time/event management, contact management, and Microsoft Exchange Server support to synchronize and share information. Arguably, Outlook Express is a [...]
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November 2, 2009
In today’s Ubuntu dominated Linux landscape, it’s refreshing to stumble upon an alternative linux software distribution choosing to follow its own path. GoblinX is one of these. After five years of development, they are still basing their distribution on Slackware and trying to ease the use of keeping it simple without assuming they know everything every [...]
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October 27, 2009
Not many people know this, but Google Chrome is based on Chromium, an open source browser project. Everyone willing can download the source code, and make a few tweaks to their own Chrome-like browser. That’s right, Firefox isn’t the only contender showing off their code! Although there are a whole bunch of Firefox spin-offs, Chrome [...]
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October 26, 2009
It’s a common problem among computer users: after a few months, our computers become weighed down by programs and all sorts of other junk, and inevitably become sluggish. For the less tech-savvy users, this may induce thoughts like “Why is my computer so terrible?” or “I guess I could always upgrade this… what-cha-ma-callit RAM thing”. [...]
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October 21, 2009
Are you looking to spice up your system a little? Maybe you want a little something that your friends do not have? Maybe you want to impress that special someone (if they are as geeky as you are!) Do you want to add a window switcher that will knock your socks off? Well despite it’s name, [...]
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October 6, 2009
Do you diagram? Chart? Maybe you sketch room layouts or wiring schematics? How about flow charts? Most people in the corporate world use the industry standard (and expensive) Microsoft Visio. So what do you do if you are in need of Visio but you can’t afford it or don’t want to use another Micro$oft product? [...]
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September 29, 2009
Looking at the feedback I’ve got from my previous article about building a self-hosted WordPress blog for free, and from personal experience, I can tell that good free web hosting services are hard to find. Sure, you can get tons of results from search engines. But most of them turn out to be more annoying [...]
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September 27, 2009
While TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop remain the most popular Twitter desktop clients, many people are turning to web-based alternatives. But why, when there are so many desktop clients around? There are several reasons why this may be a preferred way to use Twitter: Running a separate Twitter desktop client application (usually with Adobe AIR) takes [...]
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August 22, 2009
I still remember the day that I first realized that traditional landlines were going to be a thing of the past. I was sitting at the dining room table paying our monthly bills, and for the first time in a very long time I decided to stop and take a good, hard look at the [...]
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August 17, 2009
Ubuntu has been heralded by many as the apogee of the user-friendly, consumer driven Linux distribution. But what if there was an even better alternative? An operating system that benefits from the extensive Ubuntu repository, the proven Debian core and an user interface that would make it easy for Windows users to switch? And better [...]
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August 16, 2009
With The Pirate Bay losing its previously ever-loyal crowd due to being sold out to the Global Gaming Factory, and possibly requesting certain users to pay for its operations, many users are now turning to alternative torrent trackers to fill their needs to file share. Here are 6 of the best alternatives to Pirate Bay [...]
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