Category Archives: Software Recommendations

Libre Office Living Up to Its Name

Posted on February 10, 2011 by admin

I have long been an advocate of OpenOffice.org, and have some of my commercial clients using it. For most business needs for an office suite, it provides more than enough capability, and saves companies large amounts of money, even if … Continue reading →

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Document Conversion Online

Posted on November 23, 2009 by admin

Boulders 2 Bits provides a link to Media Convert, which has a huge selection of document conversions you can perform online.  I haven’t worked with it yet, but it’s definitely in my bookmarks.

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nixCraft on E-Mail Clients

Posted on August 8, 2009 by admin

Choosing an e-mail client is a pain, because if you make the wrong choice, it’s often a nightmare to export your files and accounts and then import them into a new account.  Thus reviews such as this comparison of five … Continue reading →

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Google May Challenge Microsoft Monopoly

Posted on July 8, 2009 by admin

… by creating an operating system based on their Chrome browser, which would be great for all of us, I think. Details here (MSNBC.com).

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Using Audicity with Ubuntu and PulseAudio

Posted on November 21, 2008 by admin

Read this page from the PulseAudio Wiki. It’s one of those really super single pages that solve many problems. May their number increase!

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Netbeans 6.5 Released

Posted on November 21, 2008 by admin

You can read about it here or just go and download it here. Netbeans has become my editor of choice for working with PHP. At first I found it a bit clumsy due to the many things I was not … Continue reading →

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PCMagazine Adobe Buzzword Review

Posted on August 4, 2008 by admin

Is Adobe Buzzword an alternative to your word processor? Check this review and find out.

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Getting Bible Resources Under Linux

Posted on March 13, 2008 by admin

I’ve blogged before on Bible software for Linux. One of the annoyances of switching to Ubuntu (there are very few) has been not having my Libronix software easily available. I have it on a notebook, but I don’t always have … Continue reading →

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Norton Internet Security – Good Idea?

Posted on January 15, 2008 by admin

With Norton Anti-Virus and Internet Security 2006 I reluctantly quit recommending Norton for everything. It was using too much in the way of resources, and it was too expensive for the value provided. In a number of cases internet providers … Continue reading →

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Not Recommending MediaMax

Posted on December 28, 2007 by admin

Well, MediaMax is a service I was contemplating recommending to some of my clients, but based on this (where there is also a link to a google search for “mediamax sucks” producing a large number of hits), I think I … Continue reading →

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