February 13, 2009
While there are many Windows-based blog editors around, there are only a handful that Linux users can use on their desktop. If you are like me – a native Linux user and a seasoned blogger – here are 6 free blogging clients for Linux users. While they are not as good as Windows Live Writer, [...]
February 9, 2009
w.bloggar is a free blogging client program for writing blog articles offline. It offers an alternative to Windows Live Writer and those of you that are HTML purists may prefer it to Live Writer. It also has an official portable version, for those of you that carry your life on a USB stick. Of course [...]
January 24, 2009
Few days back we looked at how to customize Nautilus to get most out of the context menus and write custom menu entries as per your requirement. Today let’s pay some attention to the good old text editor – Gedit. Gedit is the default text editor for most of the Linux distributions using Gnome as [...]
January 21, 2009
If you’re looking for a way to spruce up your boring, old, static, text-only email signature into something more exciting and interactive, here’s how. Not only will it attract more attention to your signature and making it look more impressive; it will also liven up the mundane task of sending emails. Before we start, let [...]
November 11, 2008
Collaborative document editing can be a blessing when you are working with team members or family over the internet. Its a lot more simple, easier and efficient then mailing or otherwise sending your documents and then waiting for the edited document to arrive and then the bigger mess of managing all the versions of the [...]
October 25, 2008
According to Wikipedia: “a wiki is a collection of webpages which users are allowed to modify”. Wikis are great for collaboration and note taking. Web workers have been using it to collaborate, Ubuntu has been using it, we use it here at MakeUseOf. However if you don’t have a web server and can’t install Wiki [...]
October 20, 2008
I have been using Notepad ++ for years as my Windows Notepad replacement. It does highlighting and line numbers, these were my first reasons for using it. Notepad ++ has been my best friend for writing scripts and HTML files. Now I had a new challenge and my buddy Mike told me that Notepad ++ [...]
August 28, 2008
It all began with a request from a fellow teacher to teach him how to write a mathematical equation inside his paper. The effort of doing this using ‘normal’ word processor is equal to a session inside the dentist office – painful. So I started the quest to find more suitable tool to east the [...]
August 20, 2008
I am a lifelong fan of Adobe PDF files but I am unwilling to pay a minimum $300 for Adobe Acrobat. I would much rather look around for free open-source alternatives and today I found a nice little software tool that allows you to take a PDF file and split it up into lots of [...]
July 11, 2008
If you’re into programming then you’ll know how much easier it is to use a text editor that has syntax highlighting so that you can see if you left a bracket open, curly bracket open or mistyped something. In this article I will review 3 lightweight free text editors for programmers on Windows. If you’re [...]
