Thanks to a pointer fro the Office Weblog, I found this interesting OS News article about using just freeware to get things done on a Windows PC. Most of that stuff is familiar to me, but some isn’t. That’ll give me some new things to think about. 🙂
Speaking of which, I need to update that list of “freeware I use” in the blog template. There’s some new stuff that I don’t have listed down there!
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Story of a hijack -real life spyware story. The clueless users who refuse to upgrade -interesting article, but if Microsoft really were to quit supporting older software wouldn’t the howls of “forced upgrading” be ten times louder than this? Maybe I should get some of these and make everyone hang them in their offices? Follow…
Yeah , just got in to Des Moines, only working on a dialup here and haven’t had dinner yet so more tomorrow when I can avail myself of the wireless connection for a little while to update you on what’s going on around here. I’m off downstairs to find some grub… See you all later!…
I’ve been told by Readyhosting’s Tech Support people that the current problems with the site will probably continue through the weekend. They are having a router issue, and the spare part they need to fix their router issue won’t be in until then. So this weekend you can expect random script errors and general unresponsiveness…
I have to admit, my expertise when it comes to Powerpoint is limited, to say the least. So I’m asking, in PowerPoint 2000, when you use the Insert menu to insert a multimedia file into a presentation, does it link the file, or embed the file? And if it only links the file, what steps…
We’ve talked about this before, and now that I’ve had a day or two to mess around with MT on the new domain, I’m even more convinced of this truth. Blogger and MT are simply different things for different people. Yes MT is probably more powerful as far as being able to tweak and add…
I got an email this morning from a long-lost blogger, Brad Murphy. Some of you long-time readers may remember back a few years ago when Brad was trying out his hand at blogging, but life got in the way and he had to give it up. Now he’s back with The Late Night Geek-Out. (The…