Archive for June, 2008
BIAM! Book In a Month
Well, She Did it.
My 16-year-old daughter got tired of waiting, got tired of worrying about her college fund and decided it was time I started seriously working on my book (Or Books- Like many aspiring writers, I have a whole slew I’ve been working on, but not typing out.)
So, for Father’s Day, she got me [...]
More Free Goodies: Online Office Suites
Got A few more Online Office Suites to talk about:
Buzzword is now part of Acrobat.com, Adobe’s fledgling online office suite. Right now, it consists of Buzzword, chat, a whiteboard, Document Storage and not much else. But, like Buzzword, the flash based, animated menus are clean looking and easy to use, and it promises to [...]
5 Enlightened Linux Distros
Image via Wikipedia
Regular readers know I’ve been using Linux, trying to get another year or two of decent performance out of the Coal-fired pentium I use around the house.
This led to Live Linux CDs of the various “Major” distributions, a few stabs at dual-boot installations, and finally a full bore, Linux only reformat with Fedora, [...]
IBM Lotus Symphony 1.0 Available
When I think of great free office applications I think of Open Office, Google Apps and now….IBM Lotus.
IBM? FREE?
Yes, it’s out of beta, and thank you for the million testers. IBM Lotus Symphony, based on Open Office and re-engineered by Big Blue, is available HERE.
What does this mean? I don’t know. But it’s interesting to [...]
Linux for Senior Citizens and Computers
This Showed up on Reddit today:
82 year old runs Linux
I was interested. I’ve been running PC LinuxOS for a couple of months and thought I’d update readers on what’s happening.
First, I’m Using Open Office and Celtx pretty exclusively for Word processing. I still use Firefox for the web and Thunderbird for Email: Both of these [...]
