Tag: Open Source

  • Jonathan Kozol Hates Microsoft!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Via Dave Cormier comes the absolutely scandalous story of how a small West African school was forced to reverse its decision to drop Windows in favour of free and open source software. …due to numerous recommendations forthcoming from the US Embassy, the State Department, and technology professionals involved in providing services to international schools worldwide,…

  • Firefox New Window command not working

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    I recently upgraded my Firefox install to 1.06 – while I was at it, I upgraded the extensions and added some new ones (GreaseMonkey, SessionSaver, Google Toolbar for Firefox, and Googlebar). After installing all of these and re-starting Firefox a number of times, I realised that the File -> New Window command was no longer…

  • Organic SEO Wiki

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    Tom Raftery
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    Kudos to Michele for pointing out the Organic SEO Wiki – the “organic” refers to the manual type of page optimisation, as opposed to automatic submittal and page alteration. Everything on the site can be implemented by one person, rather than having to hire a firm and pay big bucks for them to do the…

  • Virtual desktop manager for OS X

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    I found a great virtual desktop manager for OS X – it is called Desktop Manager (strangely enough!) and is freely downloadable here. Desktop Manager allows you to have any number of named virtual ‘screens’ (up to available memory) to arrange your programs on, Sticky window support (allowing you to have one window on all…

  • WordPress theme Rubric updated for WordPress 1.5

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    I had a WordPress template called Rubric on my WordPress 1.2 site. I hacked it a bit to work for me (adding css to show Amazon links within posts etc.). On upgrading to WP 1.5, I followed the very straightforward upgrading old WordPress templates instructions and suddenly I had Rubric in WP 1.5. I have…

  • Free backup utility for Mac OS X

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    Matthew Phillips wrote a piece on how to backup your Mac using a free utility called RsyncX. The article goes through different backup scenarios in detail and will be useful for anyone who wants to backup their Mac. RsyncX is downloadable from VersionTracker. More info on RsyncX and its author Kevin Boyd is available here.