Category Archives: Open Source

Shareware, Freeware and Open Source

QuickTime Quirkiness
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Posted on March 23, 2008 by

A couple of my pet peeves with software are applications that once installed, are very difficult if not impossible to completely remove from your system without nuking you hard drive. The other type of software is the kind that makes … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, CyberNet, Firefox, Open Source, Thunderbird, Tips & Tweaks, Vista, Windows | 3 Comments

Firefox & Spybot 1.5.2 Load Times
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Posted on February 9, 2008 by

I just downloaded and applied the Spybot 1.5.2 update, which of course required me to restart the computer. After rebooting I launched Spybot and noticed and a huge difference in the load time. As mentioned prior, the old 1.5.1 version … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 2.0, Open Source | 2 Comments

Fx 2.0.0.12 Issues & Preloader
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Posted on February 9, 2008 by

I noticed a couple comments on the Firefox 2.0.0.12 Released post about issues with add-ons when upgrading to this new release. I did upgrade to the released version of Fx 2.0.0.12 even though I should not have (more on this … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, CyberNet, Firefox, Fx 2.0, Open Source | 3 Comments

PrimoPDF
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Posted on September 23, 2007 by

Foxit Reader is great alternative to Adobe Acrobat for viewing PDF files. But what if you want to create a PDF file? Sure you could pay for a program that will take your files and convert them to PDF. Or … Continue reading →

Posted in CyberNet, Links, Open Source, Other | 10 Comments

Follow-up MS Free Software Violates Patents
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Posted on May 17, 2007 by

Earlier today I posted Microsoft: Free Software Violates Patents!. Todd Bishop has a lengthy article on his blog today about this topic. However the article is more about the Free Software Foundation and it’s draft of the General Public License … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Microsoft, Open Source | 1 Comment

Microsoft: Free Software Violates Patents!
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Posted on May 17, 2007 by

Microsoft must be losing lots of money to free software such as Linux and OpenOffice.org, as they are now whining that “Free Software Violates 235 Patents”: The Linux kernel – the deepest layer of the free operating system, which interacts … Continue reading →

Posted in CyberNet, Microsoft, Open Source | 2 Comments

FastStone Capture No Longer Free
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Posted on May 17, 2007 by

Back in January I raved about the then FastStone Capture.  Earlier this week FastStone Capture version 5.4 was released and much to my disappointment has become shareware.  You get a free 30-day trial then you have shell out $30 to … Continue reading →

Posted in CyberNet, Open Source | 20 Comments

Big Changes!
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Posted on March 10, 2007 by

After dealing with a broken theme for the last couple days I decided it was time to make some changes. For one, I went back to a two-column theme, frankly three-column are just to much (and is if three weren’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog News, CyberNet, Open Source | 10 Comments

More Blog Changes & FileZilla
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Posted on December 18, 2006 by

Thanks to everyone who has commented about the new theme and layout. Based on these comments I have made a couple more tweaks. The old ‘Featured Links’ section use to have ‘buttons’ for all the browsers and some of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog News, Browsers, Open Source | 2 Comments