Make Your Own Flashcards with Teach 2000

Its not the most user-friendly piece of software, but if you are interested in making your own flashcard sets, check out this post. It includes Unicode support, so Greek cards should not be a problem, provided you follow my guide to setting up a Unicode Greek Keyboard.
Greek students might also be interested in this post [...]

Google enters the Browser Wars with “Chrome”

Google is entering the browser wars.
But true to its “Don’t be evil” slogan, Google is not really waging a war. In fact, just last week Google announced that they would continue their support of Mozilla’s Firefox browser until at least 2011.
So why launch a new web browser?
Because we believe we can add value for users [...]

Microsoft’s Latest Internet Explorer Shaping up to be Not Evil

MS recently released the Beta 2 of their latest iteration of Internet Explorer, and it’s looking pretty nice. It boasts substantially higher security and a wealth of new features (most of which are already available in other browsers).
The most important advance is IE8’s promised standards compatibility (enabled by default). This is huge. Why? Because the [...]

Microsoft Office at 90% Off

If you did not catch the last sale, here’s your chance. Microsoft recently released this press release with the details.
Here’s the run down: anyone with a .edu email address is able to get 90% off Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate addition. That’s $60 for Microsoft’s flagship Office product. This is truly a great deal. Ultimate Edition [...]

Turn Any Printable Document into a PDF

If you use Openoffice.org or run a Linux operating system, saving any document as a PDF is easy. There is also a plugin for recent versions of Microsoft Office that can do this. But what about exporting web pages, or documents created by other software? For this you will need a “Print to PDF” driver. [...]

Update on Changing Times

For those who found my previous post about Microsoft and business models interesting, here is an article of interest. Microsoft is developing a new non-Windows operating system designed to meet the demands of Cloud Computing. Don’t expect the death of Windows anytime soon, though; it takes a long time to transition to new technology (Microsoft’s [...]

The Times, They are a-changin

Several factors have contributed to a recent surge among big-name companies in supporting open-source software. Chief among these is the increasing importance of interoperability in a Web 2.0 world. This is true across the board, from big-business capitalism, to the little-guy blogger, to governments around the globe–the world needs its data in transparent patent-free formats.

Microsoft [...]

How to Type in Greek Part III: The Best Greek Fonts

This is the third past in a series of posts about typing in Greek. The first post was about the the joys (and necessity) of Unicode character encoding. The second detailed how to set up a Greek keyboard. Now you need a good font. While up to this point we have been dealing with encodings [...]

How to Type in Greek Part II: Setting Up the Microsoft Greek Polytonic Keyboard

Now that you have a full appreciation of Unicode it’s time to setup windows to type in Greek (and Hebrew, for that matter).
Getting Started
First, open up your favorite document editor. I’m using OpenOffice.org, a free, powerful, and interpolatable solution to Microsoft Office. For testing purposes we need to use a Unicode font that supports [...]

Why Open Source?

Many potential readers of this blog may be unfamiliar with the concept of “Open Source” software. There are a variety of possible definitions (depending on your preferred open source licensing schema), but what essentially qualifies software as being Open Source is the availability of its underlying source code for reading and editing. Why is that [...]