software

The wife’s old laptop started crapping out so we decided to buy a new one. So yesterday the DHL driver delivered a brand new Dell XPS 1530 to the house. I was a little nervous because it came installed with Vista Home Premium and other than seeing it on someone elses machine I hadn’t actually [...]

As a regular Firefox user I went ahead and downloaded the latest version to two of my home PCs. I did wait a couple of days to avoid the rush on their servers. Had absolutely no problem downloading it and the installation went smooth. One is my desktop and the other is an older Dell [...]

A few observations and thoughts…
Recently I’ve started using Google Reader for my RSS feeds. I’ve been a Bloglines user for a while but decided to give Google a try after reading some good reviews. It is still a toss up as to which I prefer but as I think about it I’ve realized just how [...]

I’ve always loved looking at maps. I can spend hours playing around with Google Earth and similar software but I have hesitated on taking the plunge into a portable GPS unit. I don’t know why but I just couldn’t quite bring myself to doing it. But I finally decided to go ahead and spend some [...]

I’ve decided to give it a go again with Linux. Installed an extra hard drive on my computer and have installed Ubuntu’s Hardy Heron. So far it seems to be working ok. One thing that is irritating is that Firefox 3 Beta is loaded so I can’t use my Foxmarks add on so I don’t [...]

Wow, where did the month of January go? Seems I put off writing a day or so and the next thing I know weeks have passed. But no more I say, I must write, write, write. But what to write about? Well this post is about a couple of freeware programs I’ve used lately.
First up [...]