What could be better on a Friday afternoon that an dose of regular expressions. Anything I hear you cry. Well of course you’re right, but once you’ve mastered them, regular expressions can save you a lot of time and add power functionality to your applications.
Learn Regular Expressions By Experimenting
RegExr is an excellent tool not only [...]
If you find writing a chore, if you prefer to work from home on days when you have to write up big reports, you’ll love Q10.
Distraction Free Writing
Q10 is a writing tool with very few features and that is what makes it so attractive. It’s a great way to start writing a piece as you [...]
This weeks (yes, I know it’s been a few weeks) free software is an online survey tool that enables you to collect opinions on what people think about your web site.
It’s very easy to implement, it’s very easy for the visitor to use, it’s free and it’ll provide you with invaluable feedback that can make [...]
Amazon S3 is an online storage service which is blisteringly fast and ridiculously low cost. You can store and transfer Gigabytes of data using their service and you’ll end up with monthly bill in single dollar figures.
It sound greats, and it is, but it is just a service and a bare bones service at that. [...]
The last Free Friday article was delayed, but it’s now live and you can read it here.
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I’ve also recently changed the theme on this blog. The reason? Better legibility.
If you’re not yet acquainted with it, Thunderbird is Mozilla’s desktop email client. I’ve been using it for a couple of years now as an alternative to Outlook because it’s more lightweight and seems to handle large volumes of mail better.
Mozilla’s philosophy is to build products that are lightweight on initial installation, which you then [...]
This week’s recommendation is very small and compact just like the software it describes. It’s a graphics optimiser and converter for windows called PNGOptimizer and as its name suggests one of it’s main functions is to optimise PNG graphics.
PNG is a very high quality format for graphics which has become more common on the web [...]
Now that the Adobe have handed over the PDF format to the ISO and it has been approved as a standard open format, PDF has moved from a de facto standard to a real standard for transferring and archiving information. So if there were any doubts, it’s definitely here to stay.
Adobe has always made information [...]
I came across a great screen capture project the other day called Jing. It runs on Windows and Mac OS X and is incredibly easy to use because only the essentials have been included in this programme.
You can use Jing to capture screen shots of your computer screen or make videos of what you see [...]
AdSenseLog is a smart little programme for Windows that brings AdSense reporting and analysis to your desktop. Install it, enter your AdSense account details and tell it how often you would like AdSenseLog to check your account. It then runs in the background and periodically checks your account to see if there are any changes [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I am an operating system agnostic. I use Windows XP at the office, I have iMac running OS X at home and about a month ago I wiped my old Sony Vaio and loaded Ubuntu. I just use computers to get things done, so don’t expect wild evangelism of one operating system over another here. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Just a quick post to say that this Friday’s look at free software will be a review of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon or just plain old Ubuntu to us mere mortals. Not just one piece of free software, but an entire free operating system and an office suite.
I’ve been using it for about a month [...]
If you want to catch up with TV news at work or when on the move Zattoo is for you. It’s free, it’s legal and it’s not just news channels.
The creators of this free satellite and cable TV programme for Windows and Mac have agreements with the content providers which means that you can watch [...]
This week’s recommendation of a free software product is a bit more lightweight than past weeks. In fact it doesn’t have much more utility beyond the fact that it’s pretty. But hey, that’s not always a bad thing.
Vista Drive Icon changes your original Windows drive icons to ones more like those used on Windows Vista.
So [...]
Photoshop is one of the giants of photo editing, but at over £500 for a new installation of the current version (CS3), it’s not worth the price if all you need to do is crop and tidy up some photographs for your web site.
A great alternative image editor for Windows users is Paint.net. It’s compact, [...]
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