Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Foxier browser

IT’S fast, it’s free—and it’s an excellent upgrade. If you still haven’t installed Firefox 3.5, do it today. The speed and new features make this browser a keeper.

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Posted by Chin on 06/30 at 05:34 AM
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Shifting to OpenOffice

GIVEN the cost of buying a licensed copy of MS Office and the dangers of using pirated software, it’s no surprise that many companies are opting to use OpenOffice. Published free and open source, OpenOffice (Version 3.0 is the latest) can be downloaded and used with no legal liability or guilt—and it does most of what MS Office does. As a bonus, it runs on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X, so your main productivity tool won’t be locking you in to one operating system.

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Posted by Chin on 06/22 at 08:52 PM
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Monday, June 15, 2009

E-books to go

Some writers suggest that dedicated e-book readers are on the way out, since Apple’s iPhone and other smart phones can do the same job, I disagree. For most serious book readers, the tiny screen just doesn’t cut it. The real challenge to Kindle and other dedicated e-book readers will come, not from mobile phones, but from small and inexpensive netbooks.

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Posted by Chin on 06/15 at 06:41 PM
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Monday, June 08, 2009

Cool Web applications

GOOGLE caused a stir last month with Wave, an experimental Web application that combines e-mail, instant messaging, online forums and wikis. Developed by the same engineers who worked on Google Maps, Wave was unveiled during the company’s developer conference, in a bid to encourage programmers to create plug-ins for the new platform. The service isn’t available yet, but there’s no shortage of Web 2.0 applications to explore. Here are a handful I found over the weekend.

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Posted by Chin on 06/08 at 10:54 PM
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Searching for a better search


MAYBE the third time’s a charm. Microsoft must certainly be hoping so, after announcing the third reincarnation of its search engine, now dubbed Bing, which goes live June 3. By pumping $80 million to $100 million into a marketing campaign to boost its new brand, Microsoft is hoping to pull itself out of a distant third place in the search engine rankings.

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Posted by Chin on 06/01 at 01:29 PM
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