May 27, 2009
Many new computer users consider encryption too hard to use or just not worth the trouble. If you’re sending the groceries list to your husband or wife, that may be true. But consider that our society is becoming more and more prone to surveillance, either by governments or private individuals looking for financial gains. If [...]
March 24, 2009
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is cool – the thing that lets you analyze an image and recognize the text within the image. Something that you can do with Evernote. However what if you want to do it for some of your own images? Of course you can use Evernote or you can use JOCR. A [...]
February 6, 2009
Have you ever stared blankly at a block of text wondering what language it was? With the Internet as powerful as it is nowadays you can translate almost any language to any other language lickty split. But there is one caveat – you need to know what language it is to start with. SO how [...]
December 8, 2008
Arial, Times New Roman, Impact and Verdana are some of the most commonly used fonts. They are so widely used in fact that whenever you open a Word document from any computer, you immediately expect to find their presence. However, on your newly installed Ubuntu (and many other Linux distros), you will find that there [...]
November 28, 2008
When I was a little innocent computer newbie, still finding my way around a keyboard and gasping with delight at the internet (“WOW! HOTMAIL!”), I made a few really bad mistakes while learning. One of them (which I still cringe about to this day) was back in 2000 when I installed 9000 fonts on Microsoft [...]
October 22, 2008
We spoke about Notepad ++ being my favorite notepad replacement tool a few days ago. I used it to search and replace some text and code in thousands of HTML files. It was great, it was free but – it left me clicking on each file I needed to modify so I could run the [...]
September 4, 2008
The Mac is said to be the machine of creative people; starting from graphic designers to musicians and sound engineers. There are lots of heavy applications available to cater for their needs. But what about writers? What options do they have? Mac’s word processors are always identical to the low profile TextEdit or the heavy [...]
