Software

Firefox 3.5 is Faster, Slicker, and Ready to Download

The latest version of Firefox is ready for download, and it will be worth the time.
There is a lot to love about the new release, but perhaps the most important improvement is speed. Speed matters now more than ever. We’re not talking about download speeds here, but more important things like application speed—how fast your [...]

Zotero 2.0 Launches (What a Pleasant Surprise!)

Zotero has just released the beta of their 2.0 upgrade, and it looks awesome. Here is the announcement.
The most important upgrade is the promised addition of groups and collaboration.
Groups provide a powerful way to share collections with a class, work closely with a colleague on a project, keep track of conversations in your field more [...]

Spell Check your Ancient Greek in OpenOffice

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Are you using Unicode to type in ancient Greek (if not, follow this guide)? Do your prefer OpenOffice to Microsoft Office? Well today is the day where it all pays off. There is only one Word Processor in the world that spell-checks ancient Greek, and that’s OpenOffice. You can set it up by [...]

Protect Yourself from the Conficker Worm

You may have heard about a new threat to your computer: the Conflicker worm. Over 3 million computers are infected, and the scary thing is, you won’t know if you’ve got it until it’s too late. By too late, I mean tomorrow, when the worm “activates” and starts making a real mess of things. What [...]

Download Internet Explorer 8 (Please!)

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Now don’t get me wrong, I still think everyone should be using Firefox as their default web-browser. But I’m a realist, and sometimes you just need Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). And if you’re going to use Microsoft, then you should really definitely immediately download IE8, released today at noon.
There are a whole [...]

eBook of the Greek New Testament (UBS4) for the Kindle, iPod, or iPhone

Update: The links to the ebook in question have been (preemptively) removed pending licensing discussions. See here. Perhaps I will have time in the future to provide a Tischendorf version, which is in the open domain.

Having Googled long and hard for a free, accented, open-source, Unicode eBook of the Greek New Testament, and to no [...]

Songbird 1.1 Released

If you’re looking for a good open-source media player alternative to iTunes or WMP, consider Songbird. Songbird 1.1 was released today and shows significant improvement over previous versions.

Unicode Guide for Mac Users

If you ever type in Greek, Hebrew, or any other language that requires special characters, then you need to make sure you are using a Unicode font. I have written up a pretty thorough guide to using Unicode fonts in Windows and/or Linux, but my Mac knowledge is flaky. If you’re a Mac user and [...]

Next Version of MS Office Will Support OpenOffice Files

Some good news from Microsoft: Office 14 and the next Service Pack for Office 2007 will natively support the OpenDocument format (ODF) used by such software as OpenOffice.org and Google Docs. This open-source format has been adopted as a standard by recognized computing organizations and governments worldwide, succeededing to gain support in many areas that [...]

Even More PDF Tools

As a follow-up to my previous post, here is an excellent review of some more great PDF conversion and manipulation tools.
Also I am happy to report that I have had good success converting PDF images to plain text with OCR terminal, so give it a try!