Archive for August, 2006

Microsoft Live Writer

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Microsoft has released Live Writer as part of their Windows Live suite. It’s a program that allows bloggers to compose entries, then publish them to their blogs. It’s much like Qumana. I wrote about Qumana here and here.
I’m composing this entry in Live Writer. Let’s see how [...]

AOL is giving away anti-virus software.

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

I don’t like paying for anti-virus software. Heck, I don’t really like paying for software, even though I once made a living off a piece of software.
I’ve been using a free anti-virus program called Anti-Vir on our ancient family PC for years. It seems to do the job, but I hesitate [...]

Copernic, a program that helps you find stuff on your PC

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

There are a few programs out there that index the contents of your PC hard drive for quick search. [Mac users who are running Tiger have Spotlight; PC users will eventually have something similar, when Vista makes its way onto their PCs.] I used Google Desktop for a while. It [...]

Qumana for blogging, PC too!

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Just loaded Qumana, the blog authoring tool, on my tablet PC and I’m happy to see that it works the same way as it does on my iBook.. Gotta love those who code for both platforms.
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