Posted in Open Source Software on Feb 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Miro likes to update; not as much as iTunes or Windows, but still…when I saw that the 2.0 version was available, I was filled with trepidation. The previous versions seemed to only fix cosmetic problems, and didn’t concentrate on the real annoyances that keep Miro from being my software lover: Movies that come back after [...]
Posted in Open Source Software on Jan 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Adobe Reader has, in the course of a few years, become an indispensable part of any American’s computing experience. This is because so many companies, both big and small, are now producing .pdf documents in lieu of things like printing manuals. This saves paper, but also requires the end user to install a piece of [...]
Posted in Open Source Software on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Are you tired of Windows Media Player telling you what to do and spying on you behind your back? Are the 50 free spyware-laden mp3s from emusic and the constant reinstallations of Winamp getting you down? Is the buggy Apple Software updater that comes with Quicktime kicking you in the crotch? Do you find that [...]
Posted in Open Source Software on Jan 11th, 2008 7 Comments »
I can remember back to when I was a scholar of the ancient languages, I was aching for a computer Bible program that would: 1) Be searchable by word, like a simple concordance. 2) Display both the English and the Greek/Hebrew texts side-by-side, like the Nestle chocolate Greek text. 3) Display actual textual information with [...]
Posted in Open Source Software on Dec 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Open Source Software of the Week I’m in the land of snow and dial-up internet, so I’ve been out of commission this week. But since this segment has developed a loyal following of at least two to three 6th graders, we’ll try to get this posted today. For the sake of time, I’ll make it [...]
Posted in Open Source Software on Dec 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
First of all, let me say that there will be no more wordplay involving “Flock” from this blogger. No, sir. That’s too easy, and this post could easily turn into “flock this” and “flock that,” and that’s so 6th grade. What the flock is Flock? It’s a browser, built upon the foundation of Firefox, that [...]
Posted in Open Source Software on Dec 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Even though it takes up all my computer’s resources when it’s running, Miro is my current favorite open source software program. Essentially an RSS feed reader on steroids, Miro takes all your video podcasts and (any other thing, such as a YouTube search, you can make into a feed) and delivers it to you in [...]
Posted in Open Source Software on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Open Source Software of the Week: Evolution vs. Thuderbird E-mail programs have been around since the dawn of the public internet — remember pine? Ahh, pine. I can still remember the woodsy smell of navigating through my text menu system in college, having no idea of the killer death ap that e-mail would become. Man, [...]
Posted in Open Source Software on Dec 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Did you know that there’s an entire community of people making free software for use on your computer? Did you know that this free software will often perform its intended tasks better than its commercial counterpart? No, this isn’t like one of those “Get millions of dollars in free grants from the government” things with [...]
