Archive for January, 2007

Open source desktop software - pros & cons

In my pile of new (electronic) “to read” items, I noticed that Inc.com published a few articles about the pros and cons of using open source software.
Own the CodeThe Open-Source AdvantageThe Hidden Costs of Open Source
Although, for the most part the Inc.com articles explore open source enterprise software (the stuff you use to run a [...]

Easy & FREE online storage - MediaMax

In my previous blog entry, I mentioned the usefulness of hosted online storage.
The topic was how you could send a self-extracting compressed file to someone else. Many email applications and servers do not like EXE (executable) files - often for good reason. As one option, I suggested uploading the compressed file to hosted online storage [...]

Bye-bye WinZip & PKZIP, Hello 7-Zip

You’re sitting at your PC and find that you need to open or create a compressed ZIP file. You can download the FREE trial of WinZip to solve your problem. After you use WinZip until the end of the FREE trial period, WinZip wants you to pay for the software - a very reasonable request. [...]

My tagged search experiment: TagBulb & Las Fallas

Before starting on tagging today, I’d suggest that you take a quick read of an article from Inc.com - Not Only the Lonely Become Entrepreneurs. Depending on whether you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert, the article can be really funny, right on the mark, or both.
Last month, I wrote three blog entires about [...]

Anonymous browsing for business

You may have heard of anonymous web browsing in relation to surfing the Internet in “less than free” countries such as China. In a nutshell, the typical method of doing anonymous browsing makes it look like another computer is actually doing the browsing. (That other computer - in this role - is often referred to [...]