Now it is time to say goodbye to MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express and start giving your email a fresh new home free from constraints. Mozilla’s Thunderbird is extremely handy to organize your email, contacts, and even appointments. Thunderbird can handle well the task of managing your emails with POP and IMAP accounts. For those [...]
Read more →This is one of the most popular, and most essential, open source projects currently available. OpenOffice.org, or just OpenOffice, or simply OOo, is your multi-platform alternative to MS Office. For the basic and intermediate users, OpenOffice will suffice as an office suite. Don’t think you’ll be loosing productivity if you used OpenOffice, it has a [...]
Read more →Get rid of WinZip, WinRAR, and stick with 7-zip. Why? 7-zip is pretty much the only file archiver you’ll need, it works with several formats such as: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS. This is an utility I install on every computer [...]
Read more →A couple of websites that have helped me greatly to find excellent open source projects: osalt.com (open source as alternative): here you will find a good list of open source alternatives, a description of each program and the rating readers have given to each project; SourceForge: the home of the majority of open source projects, [...]
Read more →OpenComputer.net is a project I’ll start on my spare time to help users gain familiarity with open source programs. I admit, not too long ago I wasn’t much aware of open source softwares and the benefit of using them. With open source I’ve now been able to work productively between two operating systems, doing as [...]
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