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 [...]
