Logos Software for Macs

Logos is rolling out its software products for the Mac. No emulator necessary! You can read all the details, and pre-order, here.

A Little Love for our Mac Friends

Open source software isn’t just for Windows and Linux. Most of the best and the brightest run on Macs too. Check out this list of 25 useful free software programs for you Apple.

CrossOver Software Update

As a result of my own self-interests, I forgot to mention in my previous post: CrossoverOffice and CrossOver Games are also available for Macs, and both the Mac and Linux editions are free today.
You can register for your free version here. Follow the instructions on the page.

Free Office Software: OpenOffice 3.0 Released!

In honor of the release of OpenOffice 3.0 I thought I would make it my first post in the Don’t Pay for Software Series.
What is OpenOffice.org?
It is an office document suite, similar to (but better and free-er than) Microsoft Office or (for those of you who still use it) WordPerfect. Now don’t be nervous because [...]

FlashWorks Helps you Learn Greek Vocabulary

I have had past experience with Mounce’s Flashworks software, a free Windows and Mac program designed to help you learn Greek, but it has gotten a serious upgrade since the last time I checked. Here’s the description on Mounce’s Website:
FlashWorks is a vocabulary drilling program. Each word is tagged for difficulty, type (noun, verb, etc.), [...]

Dropbox: Part Sync, Part Backup, All Good

Backup is important. You never know when your hard drive will give out (and it will, someday), or when some killer virus is going to wipe your data, or when you are going to be a bonehead and accidentally delete that all-important file.
Backup is important, but an online backup offers further advantages. It can be [...]

Online Document Syncing for Linux

Services like Mozy Home offer a free online backup solution for Windows and Mac users. But what about Linux? As usual, no Love for Linux.

Enter Dropbox. While still in closed Beta (for Windows and Mac), Dropbox has enormous promise. It will offer 2gb of online storage space, syncs in the background, and according to this [...]

My Very First Strangelet

I’ve decided to introduce a new segment to an already crowded blog: the strangelet. Strangelets are like Nerdlets, but weird, wild, and, well, strange. The term “strangelet” derives from the controversy surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which powered up today after a long and convoluted history (remember the Super Conductor Super Collider?)
In other words, [...]

The Power of Firefox Extensions

Not too long ago I posted about features available in Google’s Chrome that are not available in Firefox.
I stand corrected. All of the aforementioned features are available through Firefox’s extension system. This is another great example of the power of Firefox extensions, a power that is only possible through Open Source (API’s are just [...]

Another Plug for the Internet Archive

For those of you who have not yet discovered the internet archive, now is a good time. In addition to public domain books, the archive includes a lot of free and legal live concert (bands that want to be included send a statement to the archive, which is on file for legal purposes). As a [...]