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 [...]
