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This is my first post for the Geeknews Central Network and I would like to thank them for this opportunity. Since this is my first post I decided it would be a good idea to tell everyone a little bit about me. I never saw or even heard of a computer growing up other then in science fiction books. The
I wanted to update everyone just a few days into the transition from Movable Type to WordPress. The web based editor has been the hardest to get used to. I like some of the things it does but I absolutley hate that it will not single line space in visual mode. I have to switch it to HTML mode to
I don't get too caught up in the "hot new thing" on the web. There is just so much stuff out there that is, well, a waste of time. Mostly I see new services and widgets that are neat but don't help you do anything better than before. I found Piclens about 3 weeks ago and have been bragging on
Most of us don't want to spend $600 for a program to edit pictures (Adobe Photoshop or CS3 Suite) or $400 for a text editor and spreadsheet program. And for those of us that detest Outlook, but like the calendar features, we've felt left out since Thunderbird doesn't offer a calendar in its standard install. And then there's that pesky
As I noted in another post earlier today, I got a new computer. This meant that three years of Thunderbird mail that I'd decided not to delete needed to move over to the new laptop from the old laptop. If you're using Outlook, you can just backup everything to a PST file and place it on the new machine. Unfortunately,
Walter Bender, who was once President of the OLPC movement has moved his sugar to a new project. Sugar Labs will continue the software development, but as Bender stated: As a separate foundation, we will be able to advance Sugar's development even further and make it available on multiple distributions and hardware platforms. The company states it enhances the Linux
If you have Vista, or installed XP SP3, you might have seen some quirkiness out of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. To counter, Microsoft has released a Service Pack for this Virtual environment. The Download is for x86 and x64 and are availablehere. Release Notes are foundhere.