Opera is a free, light and above all good browser. Mozilla Firefox is slow compared to Opera, and the Opera pop-up blocker just works, where in Firefox that isn’t always the case. If you have a website, and if you use the web seriously, you should have Opera installed on your computer. The one thing… Continue reading Opera 9.20 beta
Month: March 2007
OpenOffice.org 2.2.0
OpenOffice.org is a free and powerful office suite. The look and feel might be a bit less intuitive compared to Microsoft’s Office suite, but it suits my needs. And because it’s free, open source and most important: good, it deserves to at least try it out if you never did before. You can read about… Continue reading OpenOffice.org 2.2.0
Paint.NET 3.05
Paint.NET is a free photo and image editing tool designed for Windows XP or Windows 2000.
Gnome Partition Editor Live CD 0.3.4-3
GParted-livecd has been released to gparted-livecd-0.3.4-3. The most important change is that the media now boots off the powerful GRUB boot loader ! Some new boot options have been set. “Logout” is now available from shutdown-menu, to kill X, if needed. Media boots with No Frame Buffer by default, but option is still available. Changes:… Continue reading Gnome Partition Editor Live CD 0.3.4-3
Miranda IM 0.6.8
Miranda IM is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Supplemented by hundreds of plugins and other content, Miranda IM is very flexible… Continue reading Miranda IM 0.6.8
FrostWire 4.13.1.6
FrostWire is a free Gnutella client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. It was created in September 2005 after LimeWire LLC received a cease and desist letter from the RIAA, threatening to sue them for millions of dollars unless they stop their users from offering copyrighted songs. Unwilling to take the matter… Continue reading FrostWire 4.13.1.6
Kubuntu
I’ve been playing around with Kubuntu for the past few days. Kubuntu is a Ubuntu derived Linux distribution, based on KDE. I installed the Herd 4 test release at first, but kept getting debconfig errors during apt-get updates. So I went for the stable 6.10 Edgy Eft release. It’s been a while since I’ve used… Continue reading Kubuntu