OpenOffice, is a FREE office suite that has all the main features of Microsoft Office. Download: OpenOffice The OpenOffice suite consists of the following applications: Writer – MS Word Impress – Powerpoint Calc – Excel Base – Access Math – No Microsoft Office equivilent Draw – No Microsoft Office equivilent There is even a preference… Continue reading Save on Microsoft Office Licenses, use Open Office
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Best FREE FTP applications for Win32
Filezilla – very well done. There is even a free FTP server version. LeechFTP – has been around for a long time. Very popular. SmartFTP – a lot like CuteFTP… but free.
Google Alerts, emails regarding any updates or changes to any topic
Google Alerts: View it here. Let Google do the leg-work for researching and staying on top of any topic. Google will notify you via email once a day, as-it-happens or once a week. Only get information you want!
Online statistics for what users are using
For Flash Player: Visit Adobe Site for stats For OS’s, browser, screen size, colour depth and Javascript: Visit W3C Site for stats It becomes obvious why publishing in Flash Player 7 is a good idea and testing sites to make sure they work on both IE and Mozilla-based(Firefox) browsers is another good idea. And why… Continue reading Online statistics for what users are using
Opening Nikon-RAW formats in Photoshop CS2
Photoshop by default handles a wide variety of file formats. But still there are some formats that require specific plug-ins. Case-in-point, Nikon-Raw formats. Download the Photoshop plugin to render RAW formats: Click Here Raw formats are the “digital” negatives for pictures. They retain all raw information that a digital-camera captures. Most off-the-shelf digital cameras convert… Continue reading Opening Nikon-RAW formats in Photoshop CS2
Vital Firewall application for OSX
Little Snitch – OS X firewall application With almost every type of application now making network connections without user approval it is vital to have a firewall application that is able to alert you when network access is being attempted from your machine out to the net. Most basic firewall settings for OSX allow outbound… Continue reading Vital Firewall application for OSX
Webcrawler’s resurgence as a useful search-engine
Webcrawler was a very popular search-engine before the days of Google. It was well-known for it’s ability to find non-webpage content on the net. It still stands true today with its strength being the ability to find a multitude of media types (video and audio). It’s now based on Microsoft’s 4.0 Development Kit, which limits… Continue reading Webcrawler’s resurgence as a useful search-engine
Investor Research Sites & Google’s cool charting
Google has a cool new charting flash-app. View it here It’s really cool, because it allows you to chart 1m to 1y, and it just expands the graph in real-time. The graph is also interactive, so you can just roll-over points and see the price for that day, the volume and the exact date. The… Continue reading Investor Research Sites & Google’s cool charting
Centered Div, horizontally and vertically in window
Here is a download of a CSS-based vertically and horizontally centered DIV tag. Download Centered Div ZIP file
Best Firefox extension for Web Programmers
FireBug is an extension for the Firefox web-browser. It is amazing for debugging XML, XHMTL, CSS, JS and just to generally inspect your code. Don’t take it too seriously though as IE bug-fixes and workarounds always generate errors. Get FireBug for Firefox.