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Open Skies

The CareFree Blog about all things OpenSource

November 2007 - Posts

  • The First Blog...

    Welcome to open Skies...

    What I'm hoping to do with blog is to showcase and highlight Open Source and freeware apps that I find useful or interesting.  Ill be drifting into other areas of technology as and when the interest me...

    Lets start with my hardware, so we know what we're dealing with.....

    Desktop

    Packard Bell (hmm..) P4 Prescott 3.06 Ghz (hmmmm...), 2 Gb Ram, Nvidia 6220SE graphics card.  Triple boot between XP Home, Ubuntu and Vista Home Premium (I'm sure I left my credibility round here somewhere...).

    It runs pretty well - XP is stable, Vista is sluggish and only on there as a curiosity, and Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon) is currently giving me problems....

    Laptop

    Acer TravelMate 2201LMi.  Celeron D 2.66Ghz, 786Mb Ram.  Dual boot between Mepis and XP Home.

    Add to the mix a couple of other very old desktops which I play with Linux on, and a couple of equally old iPaqs (one of which is destined to be flashed with Linux when I et round to it) and a Nokia N73 (which is perfect as it is...) and you have my hardware world.

    Next stop - My Must Have Windows Freeware

     

     

     

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  • PDFCreator

    Website Download The options screens of PDFCreator. One thing I love about Mac OS X is that is seems in every single program, there is a button to ‘Export to PDF‘. Why can’t you do it in Windows? After all, it’s an open standard format. Well now you can, in any program that allows you to print. What [...] Bookmark and Share
    Posted Nov 16 2007, 07:06 AM by Opensoft
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  • Peer Guardian

    Website Download I just recently stumbled across this fantastic little program, and I don’t know how I ever lived without it. The idea behind Peer Guardian is simple, block incoming & outgoing connections by blacklisted ip’s. Now I don’t know about you, but the first thought that came to my mind was that one could use [...] Bookmark and Share
    Posted Nov 05 2007, 10:21 AM by Opensoft
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