[Translate] Image by Sue Waters via Flickr As you may have gathered from my defense of desktop email clients, I prefer desktop apps to webapps any day of the week. Even if the app is powered by a web data service (like Gmail), desktop applications can take advantage of the massive computin[...]
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Thunderbird Don’t Die!: The Case for Desktop Email Client Software
[Translate] Image by adria.richards via Flickr As the blogosphere debates the death of the desktop email client, I am anxiously awaiting the stable release of Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0. Like devotees of Apple Mail.app or Microsoft Outlook, I have come to depend on the desktop app for speed, [...]
November 12th, 2009 - 1:06 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay, TeacherHax
Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity
[Translate] Image by flod via Flickr Everybody loves Firefox. Even with all the other fast, standards-compliant modern browsers out there (like Chrome, Safari, and Opera– sorry IE!) Firefox stands alone for its rich variety of extensions. If you’re using Firefox, you can be sur[...]
October 16th, 2009 - 12:48 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay
Your computer has that “not so fresh” feeling? Get AppFresh or TechTracker to update all your apps!
[Translate] AppFresh is a great app for the Mac which scans through your whole computer, checking to see if all of your apps are up to date. It checks them against the iUseThis database to let you know how many other people are also using your favorite apps. All you do is press the “Update [...]
August 21st, 2009 - 1:21 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay, TeacherHax
iPhone-style phone number hyperlinks in Firefox [Mac, Win, Linux]
[Translate] Image via Wikipedia One thing that grabs people’s attention when they get an iPhone is that phone numbers on websites automatically become hyperlinks. Click on a number, and the iPhone asks you if you want to call that number. Firefox on your computer has this same abili[...]
Opera Unite: A Web/Chat/FileSharing/etc. server IN YOUR BROWSER!
[Translate] Image by Glztt via Flickr Opera Unite is an amazing service that allows you to run a web server right out of your own browser! What does that mean? It means that you can share photos, music, and files without uploading them to some external service. You can even set up a privat[...]
August 4th, 2009 - 3:17 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay
Bridge the Screen Divide: YuuGuu, Jaadu, and Chicken of the VNC
[Translate] Image via Wikipedia Has this ever happened to you? <<<<<<<RING! RING!>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Me: Hello? Dad: Hi Ted. There’s a problem with the computer. All my programs disappeared. Me: What do you mean they disappear[...]
May 22nd, 2009 - 5:30 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay, TeacherHax
Free Themed Fonts at TypeNow.net
[Translate] http://typenow.net/themed.htm Image via Wikipedia THis is a great place for fonts that look like well known movie/band/ and video game fonts. [...]
April 20th, 2009 - 7:13 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay
Google Picasa- A Lovable Alternative to iPhoto
[Translate] Image via CrunchBase I really like a lot of things about Apple’s iPhoto– it makes it easy to rip, organize, and upload your pictures. However, I HATE how it tries to keep me from knowing where my photo files are, and how it always wants to steer me into using Apple&[...]
April 13th, 2009 - 7:04 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay, TeacherHax
Great Resources for FREE Software
[Translate] Every time I get a new computer, I always visit these sites to stock up my computer with free goodies. Check it out! www.OpenSourceWindows.org www.OpenSourceMac.org www.osalt.com Pack.Google.com Labs.Google.com [...]
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