Category Software

Living Without Microsoft Wiki

Following the makeover that Living Without Microsoft has recently been given – and the upturn in activity that the site has seen as a result – I’ve been beavering away on WikiSpaces putting together a wiki for resources on how people…

Free as in Beer

Since I started Free as in Beer, I’ve come across a few of apps which have become essential: Evernote Zulupad Launchy If anyone who reads this blog has some favourite freebies, let me know! Tags: freeasinbeer

BlogJet: why, oh why…

Now, I love BlogJet. But why is it that whenever I load it up, it’s always in a small window, no matter what size it was when I closed it last? And then, when I click to maximise the window,…

FeedDemon/Newsgator Problem

Hmmm. FeedDemon has starting playing up all of a sudden. It claimed not to be able to connect to my NewsGator account a couple of times, despite the credentials being correct, and refused to do anything. So, I removed the…

Screencasting

Thanks to Steve Dale for pointing me in the direction of Blueberry Software and their BB Flashback range of screencasting tools. Steve has just finished a screencast of the IDeA’s Communities of Practice platform using the full blown version of…

BlogJet 2.0

BlogJet was always my favourite blog editor when I used Windows regularly. I was pretty annoyed when version 2 was released not long ago, as by then I had made the transition to Ubuntu. I’ve so far failed to find anything…

Ubuntu packages

Still not online at home, which makes my installation of Ubuntu a week or so quite frustrating: there really isn’t much I can do with it. Still, Pipex will be providing me with 6mb/s broadband in a week or so,…

FeedDemon Release Candidate 1

Nick Bradbury has announced the new release candidate of FeedDemon 2.1. It certainly feels more robust than the previous beta version. One of the more noticable changes is that the little bank of button that let you do stuff with…

FeedDemon thoughts

Been using the FeedDemon 2.1 Beta3 for a while now. Here’s a couple of thoughts: Each blog post has a link to post it to del.icio.us, it’s been there for a couple of versions now. But if I click a…