Archive for 'Open Source' Category
Free OCR
Every once in a while I need to copy the text from a pdf to a word document or somewhere else. After a little searching I found this little gem. Nothing serious, not always accurate on fuzzy/grainy pdf’s but it gets the job done in a pinch and doesn’t cost and arm and a leg [...]
OpenOffice 3.2 Comment
What is wrong with OpenOffice? It is not as pretty as it should be. I use OpenOffice all the time and will continue to use it but I find it difficult to put on client computers due to the GUI (do people use that term any more?). It is a great program and the feature [...]
OpenOffice 3.2
OpenOffice 3.2 has been released. I am downloading it now. I read about some of the improvements but want to see as many as I can for myself.
Firefox 3.5 Review
After a full day of using Firefox 3.5 (probably 1 and a half days), I have decided that I like it at the office and not at home. All my extensions at the office still work which is good. While it could be my imagination, I do believe that it runs faster. I have no [...]
Yay for Boxee!
So today as I am scanning the net looking for stuff I find out Boxee has made a new release…for windows. Although I didn’t pee myself I could have. Boxee is one of the cooler programs I’ve come across lately for streaming video, music, picture media but it was only for Linux so I couldn’t [...]
Magento Work
Well in addition to watching the new Night at the Museum movie with the family yesterday, I completely emersed myself into Magento. After a bit of playing on my own, I went to the Magento site and found the design guide. Which was extrememly beneficial for me. It is not exactly like modifying a WordPress [...]
Community Builder
Well last night I finished adding the Community Builder module to one of my Joomla installs. I was not concerned about the module itself but with the integration with AEC. It was not nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. I setup a test plan that was free and then went through the [...]
OpenOffice 3.1
Well OpenOffice 3.1 is out. I found out last night and have not had a chance to download and update my copy of OpenOffice. OpenOffice is a free office productivity suite that includes a compatible set of products to Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. I use it for a lot of in-house documents. I recommend [...]
Open Source Growth
When the economy started to waiver there was an article that said open source would die because of it. The main point of the article was that programmers would not spend their time on open source when they were looking for a job. I thought that the economic downturn would increase open source – both [...]
Magento
I have my first Magento shopping cart setup. I still have a lot of work to do with modifying a template, putting all the correct settings in the system, uploading a few products, and many other things I have not thought of yet.
It is much nicer than OS Commerce which was the previous shopping cart [...]