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Archive for December, 2007

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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