Favored Freeware: Google Earth
Filed in Freeware on January 21, 2006 at 12:04 pmGoogle Earth combines satellite imagery, maps, and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips. Google Earth puts a planet’s worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, [...]
Free Windows Media Player Alternatives
Filed in Freeware, MacMerc, Technology on January 20, 2006 at 11:04 amIn this week’s Freeloader Friday, Brian presents us with a few useful and free alternatives to Microsoft’s discontinued Windows Media Player for Mac users. If you enjoyed this week’s Freeloader Friday, then you may also be interested in a few reruns, such as Alternative Office and Best of 2005.
Gimp.app Update v2.2.10-svg
Filed in Freeware, Technology on January 18, 2006 at 12:05 amGimp.app has been updated to v2.2.10-svg. This update includes Gimp v2.2.10 and adds support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Gimp.app here.
Gimp.app Update v2.2.10
Filed in Freeware, Technology on January 17, 2006 at 9:34 amGimp.app has been updated to include Gimp v2.2.10 (a minor bug-fix release). You can read the release notes for Gimp v2.2.10 here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Gimp.app here.
Blogroll Dive: 1/16/06
Filed in Blogs on January 16, 2006 at 1:04 amHere are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
Bryan offered some suggestions for those of you who may be having productivity troubles.
Owen made an thoughtful statement about brand loyalty concerning the ever-popular open source vs. commercial argument.
Bonnie reported on Sprint’s failure to assist during a child kidnapping incident.
Michael noticed a suspicious similarity between the interfaces of [...]
Favored Freeware: Camino
Filed in Freeware on January 14, 2006 at 12:43 amCamino combines the awesome visual and behavioral experience that has been central to the Macintosh philosophy with powerful web-browsing capabilities such as the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. Built and tested by thousands of volunteers, the Gecko rendering engine brings cutting-edge innovations and capabilities to users in a standards-friendly and socially responsible form.
Pros: Camino “looks and [...]
Thunderbird Update v1.5
Filed in Freeware, Technology on January 12, 2006 at 5:53 pmThunderbird has been updated to v1.5. “Thunderbird v1.5 introduces several new features including a software update system, spell check as you type, built in phishing detector, auto save as draft, and support for deleting attachments from email messages. Message filtering has also been improved with new filter actions for replying and forwarding. [...]
Apple Announces MacBook Pro
Filed in MacMerc, Technology on January 10, 2006 at 12:15 pmApple has announced the MacBook Pro, Apple’s Intel-based successor to the PowerBook line. According to MacMerc:
[The MacBook Pro ships with an] Intel Core Duo! [The Intel Core Duo contains two processors (aka "cores") on a single chip, which means that there will be] two CPUs in every MacBook Pro. [The MacBook Pro [...]
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