May 18, 2010 | Software and Downloads

Someone complemented me the other day that I’m pretty organized. I’m going to be sharing what I use to keep organized in upcoming blogposts.

For one, I use something called Zim. It’s a desktop wiki program.

A wiki is a user-editable, interlinked set of information, like Wikipedia, or the Portland Pattern Repository, the first and original wiki.

While there are a bunch of free wiki packages, they mostly require a webserver. Zim, by contrast, runs on your computer like a normal program.

Read on for more.

Continue ...

Explore related content: Linux, Mac, software, wiki, Windows, Zim

April 11, 2010 | Software and Downloads

Frozen Bubble is a fun game for wasting time while you’re waiting for TPS reports to print.

No long-winded strategy, no enemy aliens, no unwieldy artillery targeting. Just shooting marbles mindlessly.

Read on for screenshots and installation.

Continue ...

Explore related content: Frozen Bubble, games, Linux, Mac, marble, Ubuntu, Windows

February 21, 2010 | Software and Downloads

gEdit is the main text editor for the default desktop environment in Ubuntu. It’s also available on Windows and Mac. It can open multiple files in tabs in a single window. I often have tens of files open when working on a project. It’s a pain to have to open every single file again when switching projects.

Continue ...

Explore related content: gedit, gedit plugins, GNOME, Linux, Session Saver plugin, sessions, text editor, Ubuntu

February 19, 2010 | Software and Downloads

Java is an application environment (like, in a way, .NET, Perl, PHP, etc.) in which a lot of cool programs like Limewire and Azureus and some useful programs like Eclipse and Netbeans are written.

Java is usually included with Macintosh. For Windows, here’s an overview of how to install Java.

Continue ...

Explore related content: install, Java, Windows

February 18, 2010 | Software and Downloads

Here’s a neat little application that makes a picture of your mouse movements as you use your computer. It’s sort of hokey, but I guess you could use it to track how people use your website.

Continue ...

Explore related content: Anatoly Zenkov, GUI, Java, Linux, Mac, MousePath, software, Ubuntu, UI, user interface, Windows

January 25, 2010 | Software and Downloads

Miro is a free and open source podcast viewer for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Here’s a run-through of the installation process for Windows so you know what to expect before you start.

Continue ...

Explore related content: BitTorrent, install, Miro, podcast viewer, software, torrent, Windows

January 23, 2010 | Software and Downloads

The Tarangana blog has a great post about the top 10 Twitter clients for Windows.
Just about all are free, and many are open-source, too.

Continue ...

Explore related content: software, Twitter, Windows

December 19, 2009 | Blogging, Software and Downloads

WordPress 2.9 is out and it has a lot of new features to make using WordPress easier.
1. Global undo/trash
2. Image editor
3. Batch plugin updating
4. Easier video embedding
It also has 4 under-the-hood features that make blogging better with WordPress:
1. Canonical URLs
2. Automatic database optimization
3. Comment metadata
4. Faster Press This bookmarklet
Top Incoming Search Termshow to create obama [...]

Continue ...

Explore related content: blog, releases, WordPress

December 18, 2009 | Blogging, Software and Downloads

The upcoming WordPress 2.9 release has a lot of new features. Here are 10 that may make your life easier:

Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
rel=’canonical’ for singular pages
Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin [...]

Continue ...

Explore related content: blog, releases, WordPress

November 28, 2009 | News, Software and Downloads

Version 0.47 of the open-source vector drawing program, Inkscape, has been released.
If you’re not already familiar with Inkscape, it’s comparable to Corel Draw, Xara, or Adobe Illustrator. It has fewer features than some of those programs, but also a few that they don’t. Bitmap-based drawing programs save a line as a collection of square pixels. [...]

Continue ...

Explore related content: Inkscape, releases, software, vector drawing, vector graphics