Archive for October 24th, 2008
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Nine Great Open Office Extensions
As I pointed out in one of my latest columns, I’m not using OpenOffice.org too much these days. I’ve more or less begun using Google Docs for most of my columns but I still keep OpenOffice.org on my Macs as it’s worth having it around if you need to open Microsoft Office documents or if [...]
The Google Phone: Ten Best Android Applications
Erick Schonfeld has a good round up of launch apps for Google’s Android phone.
The apps I use the most come with the device: Gmail, the Web browser, and Google Maps, in that order. The phone also comes with the Amazon MP3 store, which lets you buy songs and download them over the air directly onto [...]
The Best Blog Designs
Well far be it from me – a design challenged blogger if there ever was one – to criticize other people’s blog designs but some of these are a little bit too hard to read for my tastes. Yes, it’s nice to have a pretty looking blog with fancy graphics and a high level of [...]
Ars Technica Review of VMWare Fusion 2 for Mac
Ars has a good review of VMWare Fusion 2 for the Mac. I’ve been running it for a while and it’s fantastic if you need to run Windows on your Mac but, as Ars points out, it blows chunks if you try to run 3D games in a VMWare window or even full screen on [...]
The Blog Is Reopened
After putting this on hiatus for a few years, I decided to bring it back as I miss commenting on technology news from time to time. So here it is, I’ll be adding a different Word Press theme soon but for now we’ll go with this.
