AlternativeTo.net This is about evolution – no, not the kind you argue about with atheists and astrophysicists, but about software evolution. Remember when Bill Gates was a skinny geeky, god-like creature who ruled over the world of desktop PCs like a skinny, male school marm with funny glasses – deciding for us what we’d like and then, like… Read More »
Sesquipedalianism – or why do I need a dictionary? Wordsmyth Dictionary pronunciation: dIk sha neI ri part of speech: noun inflections: dictionaries definition 1: a reference work that contains a list of words of a particular language, usu. in alphabetical order and supplemented with information about the spelling, pronunciation, and meaning of each word. definition 2: the electronic… Read More »
Be a power user with ServiWin from Nirsoft One of the most trusted names in freeware is Nirsoft. We’ve been using Nirsoft utilities for a long time, and he still continues to churn out Windows utilities continuously… and most of what he does has a minimalistic interface but performs its functions admirably. Just because Nirsoft programs lack fancy graphical user… Read More »
Make a Contact Sheet of Your Images – Sorta Remember back in the day before computers, the photographer would give you a sheet with maybe 20 different images on it so you could pick the best ones for printing or whatever. That, my friends, in case you are too young to recall, was called a contact sheet. Now,… Read More »
Edit, View, and Modify PDF Files with PDF Eraser There are a lot of free PDF viewers out there, but not many allow you to edit PDF files, change text, erase text, cut pages, add images, remove images, etc. We found PDF Eraser after we had selected our Freeware Pick this week, otherwise it would have been our… Read More »
PrintWhatYouLike No. We are not kidding, PrintWhatYouLike is a word. Look it up. We learnt it just today. We like English spellings too, it adds colour to our newsletters, don’t you think? Besides, if England invented English, who are we Americans to muck it up? Learnt, dreamt, burnt, smelt…wait, “smelt” is a fish and the past tense of… Read More »