New Information About Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0

February 23rd, 2008

Free Software

I’m a big fan of the Mozilla Thunderbird software.  I generally use a mixture of Thunderbird 2.0 and Microsoft Outlook 2003 to manage my 15+ e-mail accounts via POP3 and have no real complaints.   After looking at what is in store for Thunderbird users, I will be considering making the permanent switch to Thunderbird once [...]

The State of Open Source

February 13th, 2008

Free Software

If you’ve been blogging for awhile, you’ll probably remember Technorati’s “State of the Blogosphere” they would release quarterly which looked at blogging as a whole and talked about trends and whatever else was relevant in Technorati’s eyes.
Another industry that has been thriving lately is the open source community.   With the popularity of free software such [...]

Best of: Firefox Greasemonkey Scripts

February 11th, 2008

Web Browsers

Have you ever noticed that sometimes websites don’t behave in an ideal way, don’t look the way you want them to, or maybe there are a few features you would like to see added?
What if I told you that there is a way to manipulate those websites to look and work the way you want [...]

Ultimate Collection of Linux-Unix Cheat Sheets

February 9th, 2008

Free Software

Are you a Linux user?  Switching to Linux, the free open source operating system alternative, has become a popular decision lately among geeks.  Dell has even started offering the operating system pre-installed on computers in place of Windows Vista or XP.
If you’ve recently made the switch, it can require quite a period of adjustment, especially [...]

Technology Talk – 02/03/2008

February 3rd, 2008

Technology

Here is this weeks roundup of quality posts I ran across doing my daily blogosphere browsing:

Firefox Extension Guru has posted Thunderbird 3’s Plans for 2008. I’m glad to see Thunderbird is still proceeding and am looking forward to tabbed e-mails!
Digital Inspiration explains how to transfer a Feedburner feed. This is a new [...]

Best of: Wikipedia Greasemonkey Scripts

January 30th, 2008

Web Browsers

Unless you’ve been living a very sheltered life offline over the past five years, you’ve probably heard of and even visited Wikipedia at some point. 
Wikipedia is an online open source reference site that anyone can edit.  While the existance of such a site requires some trust and has a few problems, overall the information you get off [...]