Tag: open_source

  • TiddlyWiki

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have started to use TiddlyWiki a lot recently. TiddlyWiki is a wiki platform which runs on your personal computer. TiddlyWiki runs entirely out of html and so simply by visiting the TiddlyWiki site, you have downloaded the application! Chose File -> Save As… to name it and save it to an appropriate folder on…

  • Any questions for Dan Bricklin?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Dan Bricklin is the inventor of the spreadsheet. Dan, along with Bob Frankston released the world’s first spreadsheet, called VisiCalc in 1979. Dan has worked on many projects since and recently has started work on wikiCalc – an open source, online spreadsheet application. I’m interviewing Dan this coming Tuesday afternoon (10th Oct 2006) for a…

  • Microsoft! Open Source Internet Explorer

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    I mentioned previously John C. Dvorak’s PC Magazine article where he calls on Microsoft to abandon development of Internet Explorer because: All of Microsoft’s Internet-era public-relations and legal problems (in some way or another) stem from Internet Explorer. He advised them to: pull the browser out of the OS and discontinue all IE development immediately….…