Friday, December 7, 2007

250 Free Office Templates and Documents

There are lots of good free Office Templates and Documents available for download.

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IE does what it does best.

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Convert Everything

WAV to MP3, OGG, AAC, AMR, FLAC, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.MP3 to WAV, OGG, AAC, AMR, FLAC, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.WMA to WAV, OGG, AAC, AMR, FLAC, MP3, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.OGG to WAV, MP3, AAC, AMR, FLAC, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.AAC to WAV, MP3, OGG, AMR, FLAC, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.# MP4 (AAC) to WAV, MP3, OGG, AMR, FLAC, MPC

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Don't be misled by these 10 Windows Vista myths

The official consumer launch of Windows Vista has brought with it a great deal of confusion, misinformation, and some fairly ignorant assertions. Windows expert Deb Shinder debunks some of the misconceptions she's been hearing, from exaggerated cost and hardware requirements to feature limitations and compatibility issues.

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Slife - Mac App that Visualizes/Organizes Computer Activites

Slife is the new awareness browser for the Mac OS X that lets you visualize your computer activities like never before. Trying to be more productive? Wondering where all that time went? Now you can find out!

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Gregarious 2.0 Beta Released!! (Wordpress plugin for Digg)

The new version sees various incredible changes that are sure to cause a stir in the Wordpress community. This version now adds PostBadge, DiggDetect and many wonderful features that make it a pleasure to use - inc. Share This! The options page itself is so good looking. Definitely the number one choice for a social plugin.

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PSPIRC has been shut down!

After various abuses of the Freenode IRC network, PSPIRC has been shut down indefinitely.

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GIMPshop turns the GIMP into a Photoshop look alike

Turns the GIMP into a Photoshop look alike. Maybe this will convert Photoshop pirates into Gimp users.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

eBay Seller Taking Advantage of Open Source Software

A seller on eBay is offering well-known, easily (and freely) obtainable open source Windows applications. The applications are going for $10 per item to $15 for a "software power pack" which contains programs like The GIMP, Audacity, and even Mozilla Firefox. We should be educating people about open source, not charging them for it.

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Available Now - Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta Download

While playing around with Adobe Labs website download URL's and found this page to get the Photoshop CS3 beta before its officially released sometime tomorrow. Good luck, I already downloaded a copy of the Mac and Windows version.

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Ultimate List of over 150 (!) Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download -- finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now. My favorites: FolderShare (a P2P application to synchronize folders with other users (or your devices)), Virtual Desktop Manager, Alt-Tab Replacement (however I think that TaskSwitch XP is better) and ISO recorder

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URL Fixer: Firefox extension automatically corrects common URL typos

URL Fixer is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com -asking first, if you enable confirmation. (via DownloadSquad and LifeHacker)

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Making Labels with Openoffice.org Templates - Tech-Recipes.com

Templates make life easier when you use them for letters, documents, brochures, etc. but they really make life easier when you use them for labels. The spacing for your label documents has to be extraordinarily precise to make sure that the text is printed exactly where it needs to be. This Howto will help you use Openoffice.org templates...

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Slickr (Flickr Screen Saver)

Slickr is an OpenGL flickr screen saver that shows images by: user (favorites, set, tags, contacts), groups, or everyone (tags, recent). It can also display local images. For ideas on groups and tags, go to the flickr explore page at http://flickr.com/explore/

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What's New For You in Photoshop CS3

In each version of Photoshop, Adobe releases features that are of use to different types of users. Some features are tailor-made for photographers, for example, while others are better suited for designers. Let's take a look at who will benefit from some of the new features in Photoshop CS3.

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Have your own photo gallery in 5 minutes using free software

Do you like gallery tools such as Flickr, but want to control your photos, or get rid of any of their limits? Now you can have your own custom gallery using PHP, a script called Picy, and 5 minutes of your time!

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blummyWiki - personal wiki via bookmarklet

Blummy the bookmarklet management bookmarklet has received a major upgrade. The blummyWiki is a personal notebook that can be used to store notes or favorite URLs. The cool thing: as it's stored on a server it can be shared between browsers and computers.

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Host your own photo gallery with Gallery2

This week, I'll show you how to install Gallery2, a free, open source web application that lets you publish and manage your digital images for web consumption on your own web server, whether it's your home server or hosted account.

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New WP Tiger Admin 3.0 Released

The WordPress Tiger Admin plugin has been updated to version 3.0. It's been completely redesigned, and has much better compatibility with the newest WordPress features.

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Gallery 1.5.4 Released

Version 1.5.4 of the popular PHP photo publishing software has been released. Primarily a bug fix release this time around, with definately worth checking out!

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Democracy Player 0.8.5 Released (including an Intel-Mac Version)

A new version of Democracy Player, the most popular dedicated video RSS client, was released today. IN THIS RELEASE: a new Intel-Mac version, stand-alone torrent support, fullscreen controls on Windows, and an advanced 1-Click subscription system. Democracy Player is 100% free / open source and is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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DocMAN Categories

This tutorial will show you how to add a category in DocMAN

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Register using a fake email address - then grab the emails from dodgeit.com

To avoid spam, send your registration forms to *(anything)*@dodgeit.com, then go to dodgeit.com and type in *(anything)*. Your email will be available with complete anonymity. No prior setup or login required.

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New Firefox Digg Extension (Dugged)

Adds a duggmirror link to websites listed on digg.com.

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Software for Starving Students 2007.01 Released

The 2007.01 release of Software for Starving Students is now available for download at: http://softwarefor.org/downloads.html -- Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). They have best-in-class programs gathered onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows).

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BadVista.org: Tagging Vista at Amazon.com

The BadVista campaign is encouraging supporters to take a minute and visit the Amazon page for each of the Vista versions and leave tags that express their opinion about the software, so that other potential users will have a chance to learn about the unadvertised Vista “features” that lock them out of their own computer.

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Fauxto.com: Flash-based Photoshop-like image editor

This is the first online image editor that I know of that includes photoshop-style layers. It is still in early beta at this time, but it shows a lot of promise

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Digg.com worth $106 Million Youtube worth $969 Million - Whats your site?

dnScoop is a many domain tools wrapped into one convent package. A domain traffic tool, a domain whois tool, a domain history, a domain popularity, domain appraisal (site value report), a link value appraisal (link value report), pagerank check, an inbound links count, an indexed pages check and more.

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Deligio.com - Discover and share software

This week the Dutch new start-up Deligio launched a new search engine which focuses on finding software. Deligio enables the user to easily search and find software, shareware and freeware.

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Make XP Look Like Vista

Despite Windows Vista being out for a few months now, not everyone is ready or willing to make the big "switch" just yet. Some people are waiting for the time to buy a new PC, some are not upgrading because their hardware isn't up to it, and some well.....just don't want to. So I'm going to show you how to get a Vista-like desktop on XP.

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