Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Justin Ryan
Today is an international day of mourning, mourning for the loss of the standardization process and for the fate of those who will suffer under OOXML and whatever other standards Microsoft decides to strong-arm through the ISO.
Despite overwhelming evidence that the process had been corrupted, the ISO officially acknowledged yesterday that DIS 29500, better known [...]
Posted on September 22nd, 2007 by Justin Ryan
So, you’ve been taken in by my endless praising of the Firefox browser. Or, you found it on your own and decided to give it a spin. However it happened, you finally made the plunge and installed the greatest browser ever. Now you need to know how to use it. Fear not, the answers [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2007 by Justin Ryan
Today is Software Freedom Day 2007, the fourth annual celebration of the free and open source movement. In honor of this, the holiest of Free Software days, I bring you a list of the best free software, to free you from the greed and gluttony of the big software giants.Free and open-source software provides free [...]
Posted on August 8th, 2007 by Justin Ryan
For those who may have gotten excited expecting an article about the Ford Thunderbird or the U.S. Air Force Squadron, no such luck. Today’s subject is Firefox’s little sister, the delightful and delovely desktop email client, Mozilla Thunderbird.
What makes Thunderbird rock so much?
It’s easy. Thunderbird is easy to [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2007 by Justin Ryan
Continuing with the theme of essential free and open source software, today I tackle open source image editors. My two favorites (and there are plenty of great options, both free and commercial) are Inkscape and The GIMP.
Inkscape is a vector graphics editor (SVG files), while The GIMP edits raster graphics (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF). Most [...]