Posts in: Software
- Why I ditched Skype for Gizmo Project*
- UPDATE: Gizmo users may be interested in Zfone, an encryption plugin for VoIP calls developed by security expert Phil Zimmerman. I’ve been a Skype user for about a year now, in part to save money on my mobile phone bill. Rather than pay more money for a plan with more minutes, I turned to Skype [...] [7 Sep 2007]
- Review: The online mind map smackdown
- Mind mapping may just be the next wave of online applications. Advanced JavaScript libraries and Flash are enabling web-based mind map applications that are almost as robust as their off-line counterparts (such as Freemind). [2 Jul 2007]
- MindMeister: Mind mapping goes online
- I’ve become a big fan of mind mapping for organizing my thoughts when writing or creating presentations. Whether on paper, or on a computer, I find that mind mapping really helps me organize my thoughts, and group related concepts. I typically use paper, or FreeMind. Each has its advantages. In paper’s case, it’s portability. In FreeMind’s [...] [23 Feb 2007]
- Pac the Man X: Freeware game for Mac OS X
- I prefer my gaming to be simple, so I <3 the classics like Frogger, Tetris and Pacman. So you know I was quite happy to see Pac the Man X, a freeware game for Mac OS X from McSebi. It’s a … well I’m not quite sure what to call it (it’s not an emulator, and [...] [19 Jan 2007]
- Aptana IDE: Is it the text editor you’ve been looking for?
- UPDATE 2: Aptana, beta build 9 includes support for PHP. UPDATE: Aptana has released a beta version that has Ruby on Rails support I first heard of Aptana in the comment thread of a Lifehacker post (about free CSS editors). I’ve been using it on and off for the last few months, both at home and [...] [17 Jan 2007]
- Forbes on Free Software
- Be sure to check out Forbes magazine’s package titled “The Cheap Revolution,” which is all about Linux and how businesses are using it — for example, in mobile devices. There’s also an article on Amazon’s S3 service, which uses Linux boxes. I’m surprised, though, that Forbes didn’t discuss companies like OpenOffice.org, MySQL, Apache and PostgreSQL who are [...] [6 Sep 2006]
