9 posts tagged “software”
well my blog files for my site got corrupted (including the backup). Oh, well it gives me a chance to redesign my site (again). I don't know why but I am never happy with anything I do. Oh, well. I haven't blogged lately because I have sort of given up on the whole news thing, after all I was just posting stuff that was already seen on other professional sites like digg, techcrunch and dvorak.org/blog. Well it's back to the drawing board for me.
Well, I watched commandn and in there webpicks section they talked about a website called portableapps.com. Portableapps.com allows you to put applications on flash drives and launch them from it.
For example I am running GIMP portable which allows me to use GIMP anywhere. Other programmes include:
- Firefox
- open office
- Abiword
- Nvu
- Filezilla
- VLC media player
- and many more
They are currentley BETA testing some oprtablle applications such as Audacity.
Obvousily these apps DO NOT need to be installed on the system itself to use them.
Check it out
well, i'm trying out some new peices of software. The first one is Evolution mail client. It was made for linux and they didn't make a windows version but i found someone who ported it. To tell you the truth I had a really hardtime typing "Evalution mail for windows" in google.lol. anyway it seems really good apart from every time I try to set an alarm in my calander it crashes.
The second peice of software is'nt really "new" but is the next version of everyones favourite browser firefox. Yep, i'm testing firefox Beta 2.0. It's user interface has been polished and to me it seems a bit faster, infact the only thing I don't like is that Sage my RSS reader dosen't support it yet (how am I going to live with out my RSS feeds) but that's not mozzilas fault. All in all it's safe to say you are going to like this. Go grab the it.
Oh yeah, I think the next Beta for skype has been released too.Yay.
Thanks again crunchgear!
This is better than a Golden Ticket from Willy Wonka! For a limited time you can download the DVD ISO image for Vista and install it to your heart’s content. Obviously, if it destroys your computer and/or life, you’ll have to tell Microsoft all about it. Otherwise, it’s Vista season and your PC is a shotgun
I think it's worth noting that this is only the Pre RC-1 download, in-case anyone got the wrong Idea.
Has anyone else tried ubuntu yet because it's pretty good. But Ubuntu is the only form of linux I have tried so far so I don't know how it compares to the others. I never realized It was so easy to install Linux and to be able to try Ubuntu without effecting your system is a brilliant idea. I made a post on my site about Ubuntu and how easy it was to use.
Just thought i might talk about it a little bit.
Wow soon the smug windows users will not be so smug. Hopefully we will see gaming on a mac without having to run parelells or boot camp and the games will not have to be ported.
"Cider games will run as if they were made for Mac OS X"
with cider, Mac users' long wait for Mac OS X-native games is a thing of the past- Mac users will be able to run cider-enhanced windows games simultaneously or nearly simultaneously with there counterparts, said Gupta.
I have to note that it will be only INTEL macs that will be able to run Cider games.
Check out the whole article here
(note: I don't and never have had a Mac)
That's right, Thingamablog works and it works well, have tested it and added a commenting system. I now have changed the templatte byt still have the header image to change, then i need to make it more "homely" but so far so good. You can check the unfinished site out here.
I haven't updated this Blog for a while, this is because i have benn busy, in between going out to places with my familly and working on a crummy site using Aptana IDE (look for a later post) i haven't really had a lot of time. My site is coming along well, but i'm not entirely sure what i'm going to do with it but it looks as though it can be turned into quite a good podcasting site this is mainly because i can use the template as a blog. Of course i would need a podcast to place on the site and anything i do with audio comes out bad but this doesn't discourage me so i will go ahead with it anyway.
Did I mention the site is coded entirely I HTML, this is because i don't know any other languages and i'm not using a PHP application such as wordpress.
I will stop rambling now.
Today Gizmo the VOIP Program have gone the way of skype by giving free calls to landlines and mobiles, but there is a diffrence Gizmo are offering it to over 60 countries. This of course is not the same as skype in and there free calls in the USA. Seems good right, well theres a catch. You must convince the person who you want to call to sign up and download gizmo, then they have to add there landline and mobile number to there profile. If they do not do this you will not be able to call there landline or mobile. To bad if they don't have a computer, Theres alway a catch.
If your intrested go to call-for-free
