I’m not “Mr. Graphic Designer”, I work with pictures from digital photo cameras, I play around with images for websites and that’s about it. But I do like to have a program that has a bit more than just the very basic functions. And that’s what I’ve found in Paint.NET! A free program for Windows made by people from the Washington State University. Designed in the beginning to become a powerful replacement to the Windows standard “Paint”. Everyone out there that’s doesn’t really need all the bells of Photoshop CS or Paint Shop Pro, go ahead and try Paint.NET. I’m sure a lot of you will find it very useful. And you can stop feeling guilty about that illegally obtained Photoshop copy 
From now on, Paint.NET is featured in my Software links.
Monthly Archive for April, 2006
” We are now in the final stages of Ubuntu 6.06 development. Everything is stabilizing and Ubuntu 6.06 will certainly be a top-notch professional OS. With a five year support cycle Ubuntu 6.06 will provide enterprise users with a platform upon which to build solutions and products that will be beneficial for years to come. Today April 20th 2006 brings us Ubuntu 6.06 Beta, the first beta release intended for wide spread testing.
The Ubuntu team is proud to present the beta release of Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). With Ubuntu 6.06 Beta comes loads of bug fixes, a new Look-and-Feel, a new Live-CD installer, GNOME 2.14.1 and much more.
Note: This is still an beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released in June of 2006. ”
This morning, starting at 3 am, Telenet finally launched the update for their Digicorder digital television recorder (with 160 gb hd). When I switched my Digicorder, the update started automatically. There are some new menu items in the program guide, and the manual recording function is to be found in the Extra menu. The option to record directly from the program guide, and schedule the automatic recording of series, is called Flexview. You have to activate it by calling the helpdesk, and you can use it for free the first six months. So I’m gonna schedule some recordings, and see how it goes 
By the way, there’s also an update for the Digibox.
The best browser in the world just got a new release! If you already use Firefox, click on “Check for updates” in the Help menu.
* Universal Binary support for Mac OS X which provides native support for Intel-based Macintosh computers. Firefox supports the enhancements to performance introduced by the new Mac Intel chipsets.
* Improvements to product stability.
* Several security fixes.
Salon.com has a featured article on where all our unwanted techno trash gets sent, and what is not being done enough to account for all the so-called ‘recycling’ we’re doing. From the article: ‘More than 50 percent of our recycled computers are shipped overseas, where their toxic components are polluting poor communities.’
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Firefox, the free, open-source browser from Mozilla, quietly gained enough users in March to finally grab 10 per cent of the web browser market, according to a report released by web audience measurement firm Net Applications.
Firefox was used by 10.05 per cent of web surfers last month, up from 9.75 per cent in February. That compared to the 84.7 per cent of users on various versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) in March.
Apple’s Safari browser took third place with 3.19 per cent of the market, while Netscape grabbed fourth place, with 1.05 per cent of the market, followed by Opera with 0.54 per cent and Mozilla with 0.34 per cent.