Its a tool that is often used in school. A tool that in retrospect I would of assumed was just a typical Apple program. But the story behind it, show that it was anything but typical.
[...]Graphing Calculator 1.0, which [...]
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Wandering around I was glad to see that the Linux Screw has a pretty complete list of Windows Software equivalents for Linux. I’ve used Ubuntu Linux for the past year and a half and still find times I boot back into Windows. Some cases in looking back I can understand as I still haven’t heard [...]
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As the days go on I tend to pop up shell windows with tail running so I can follow the traffic on my web server(s). Well that was all fine and good, but it got really messy following many servers. Plus straight text wasn’t very pretty. Then Dougal Cambell pointed out a [...]
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I’ve stopped using Microsoft Office when they came out with 2007. I had Office 2003 and was ok happy with it, but the cost of 2007 was too much, and there where so many cheaper options out there. So when I saw below it caught my attention.
It’s been a good week for anyone praying for [...]
As a full convert to Ubuntu I’m continually being more and more impressed with how flexible, stable and how usable it is. I’ve played some games on Ubuntu, but I’ve never researched the bigger games. I just assumed that there really wasn’t anything. I was wrong. I found a site where [...]
Google Pack makes it easy to setup and protect your PC, and now we’ve added two new applications to make your PC even safer: Symantec’s Norton Security Scan, which detects and removes viruses, and PC Tools’ Spyware Doctor Starter Edition, a top-rated anti-spyware utility. Both are free and include automatic protection updates with no paid [...]
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In 1993 Adobe published the full specifications for its Portable Document Format, or PDF, granting royalty free license to those who chose to build PDF tools into their applications, and helping PDF to become a de-facto standard for document creation.
Tomorrow they will announce that they are relinquishing control over the PDF format to AIIM, the [...]
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Go with the ones who know suicide. Here is a wizard that helps you through one of the many apps from Microsoft that can drive you to kill your self, and actually make it easy to express what exactly you want to say. Though uploaded in 2002, what’s to say that the [...]
Official Google Blog: New Spreadsheets fun
The day after we launched Google Spreadsheets, one of the team said, “I can’t believe you’re already on the (Google) Groups page answering questions.” After a late night-launch night? No way. “I’m definitely not posting, and I don’t have the time even if I wanted to,” I told him. Strangely, [...]
Adobe and Google team up for Toolbar
Starting today, Adobe is offering the Google Toolbar to its customers as a free download — a great way to take Google search with you anywhere on the web. You can access Google search capabilities from any website, block pop-ups, see search suggestions as you type, personalize your toolbar [...]
