Pages

▼
Showing posts with label free software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free software. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Windows 7 support ends. So where to now?

›
Microsoft suggests upgrading to windows 10. That would be fine... if it worked. They offered free windows 10 upgrades. I tried that, and i...
Sunday, November 07, 2010

I've discovered "aTunes", and it's good!

›
It's a cross-platform music player and manager: aTunes: GPL Audio Player and Manager aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager,...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

FireFox 3.6 update is now available

›
Firefox 3.6 is officially out; go get it Firefox 3.6 has officially been released by Mozilla for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The latest version...
1 comment:
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Ubuntu 9.10 is Here. It's Free. Take the Tour!

›
Ubuntu 9.10 Tour See further details here: Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released      
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

New Ubuntu 9.10 available Thursday

›
Here are a few links that could come in handy for it: Preparing for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Is there anyone around who doesn't know t...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

PC/OS: an easy Linux for older computers

›
This Linux distribution has caught my eye. It's based on Ubuntu, but it uses the lightweight Xfce desktop environment, which is simple...
Sunday, October 05, 2008

New Picasa 3, beta version, looks fantastic

›
Introducing Picasa 3.0 (beta) I posted a while back about Picasa 2.7 , the stable version that I currently use. It's a wonderful, usefu...
Saturday, October 04, 2008

Quit smoking with the help of computer Solitaire

›
Apparently, it's been done by some. From David Williams at iTWire: Quit smoking and other ways to keep healthy with Linux [...] Solitai...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The KDE 4.1 desktop GUI for Linux is here

›
A major upgrade for the KDE desktop, the new 4.XX series was supposed to be a major improvement. However, when the 4.0 release happened ear...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Two Interviews with Mark Shuttleworth

›
Mark Shuttleworth during his 2002 space flight. Here are two recent interviews with South African entrepreneur, astronaut and Ubuntu Linux f...
Sunday, June 29, 2008

Avast anti-virus software program for home PC

›
I was using AVG anti-virus software up until recently, when they did a major upgrade. Their new software slowed down my computer considerab...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Card and Tile Games: Pysol Fan Club Edition

›
I've long been a fan of Pysol (Python Solitaire) games. The originator of the project stopped development, but let the program's fa...
2 comments:
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Cross-platform word processor: AbiWord 2.6

›
Abiword runs on multiple operating systems, and has come out with it's newest 2.6 release for Windows. The Linux version has to be comp...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

Open Source Software for Linux & Windows

›
From CNET: Open-source software rated: Ten alternatives you need Open source products comprise the work of many collaborators -- sometimes t...
1 comment:
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Picasa, Google's free photo manager & editor

›
I recently downloaded a copy of Picasa, and was very impressed. It scanned and found ALL of my photo and image files, on all of my hard dri...
Monday, March 19, 2007

OpenOffice.org: the alternative to MS Office

›
For Windows, Mac and Linux: a free office suite program OpenOffice.org is both the name of a program, and the website you can download it fr...