Do you use open source software? If you don’t, Tom Merritt from Cnet says you are wasting money. For almost every application or program you use on your computer that you buy, you can get a free version. There are thousands of free open source programs available to download from wordprocessing to image editing. And [...]
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Drupal, the open source content management system, has been chosen to host the whitehouse website. Tim O’Reilly in his article on the Government switch says the whitehouse liked the flexibilty of Drupal and it’s huge range of features and add-ins. It’s a big vote of confidence for open source software in general and Drupal in [...]
Do you know who visits your website? How many visitors you get? On which pages they arrive and leave? How long they stay? You should know the answer to all these questions. Your webhost analytics will give you some data. If you have C Panel (very popular webhost interface), webalizer is provided as standard. But, [...]
You may have read an earlier post called best HTML editor software, in which I featured an excellent, dreamweaver look-alike, and free, HTML editor, called NVU. But the NVU website doesn’t really tell you how to use it. I suggest you start with some simple instructions on how to install NVU. After downloading and installing [...]
You could be forgiven for thinking our computer landscape is dominated by Microsoft and it’s products. But, believe it or not, there are other software publishers to rival Microsoft. Sun Microsystems publishes an office software suite equal to Microsoft office, and it’s free! OpenOffice runs on different operating systems and is open source software, so it’s free to download, [...]
