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This entry is about a series of open source applications that I have been watching, but have had no time to try. In fact, the company that I work for would not have anything to do with these apps because they are open source, and the company management would not even consider using free, or [...]

Adeona from University of Washington provides an open source, free and completely non-proprietary way to track your stolen laptop. No 3rd party servers are required, only a small client needs to be installed on the laptop !!  The software is available for Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux!  Only the Mac OS X version [...]

This entry is about VirtualBox! This is open source virtual systems on a single computer!  If you have no idea what I am talking about then you don’t need this software!  Instead I suggest SandBoxie, which is not Open Source, and costs $30 for a lifetime personal license.  For the rest of my audience that [...]

This entry is about a program (Chandler) that I am currently moving all my notes, contacts, and some net collaboration all in one!  This app works on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.  The developers are working on French, German, Finnish, and other languages.  This software is currently in a release 1.0, but is still [...]

This entry is about a system that I pioneered and setup in my current work company. This is CuteFlow, which automates, and nearly makes brain dead the circulation of electronic documents from originator, through various departments, and various people back to you. First disclaimer ! This is written in PHP, and so [...]

This entry is about Draco, an Open Source application written in Java that provides so much statistical functionality, that if this app improves very much more I will not need any other package. Do not let the Econometrics label throw you, this package includes ordinary, two stage, logistics, and nonlinear Least Square Regression of [...]

I bring this to your attention, not because I think you should consider using this Open Source Tax Solver but because I just find it very interesting that while the US government wants our money, these guys are solving the equations according to the forms that the government publishes. This app will also provide [...]

This entry is about another mathematically oriented software package, that also has lots of other capabilities. I earlier write about FreeMat a MatLab workalike. SciLab has some of those capabilities, like optimization, Least Squares Regression, modeling of discrete systems, but SciLab can also acquire data from GPIB instruments, ADwin Real-Time and Data-Acquisition (DAQ), serial [...]

This post will contain several tools that I use on occasion. On of my hobbies is taking pictures, mostly of animals.bugs and unusual events that occur around me. I use a digital camera with a 64 MB Secure Digital Card. The camera I use is not important, since I will be upgrading [...]

Can you say steganography ? This has nothing to do with the possibly more well know stegosaurus, you remember the dinosaur with all the plates on it’s back that acted like heat radiators ? This is all about hiding a message inside another larger and possibly meaningless message. In this case the [...]

This very short entry into this blog is because I have neglected to mention this wonderful article on Crave.
This is a site that is often digg’ed that I simply neglected to mention until I was cleaning out my e-mail closets
This site gives you their Top Ten Open Source alternatives to commercial applications. For [...]

This is something I came across while hunting for something else, so I have not tried it myself, since I have little need for creating web pages. I do most of my work in C++, Windows, Gnome, wxWidgets using open source environments like Ultimate ++. But I digress this application claims to rival [...]

This is a serious tool, with a fun side if you want to create 3D images, and can visualize the images in your mind. Remember this is open source and free, so please do not expect features like “Solid Works” TM, or other commercial package that you pay hundreds or thousands of dollars [...]

Today’s entry is a freeform thought mapper for those of us who don’t seem to be able to think in a linear fashion.  This tool called FreeMind; allows people of all thought processes to visulaize the connections between concepts, or processes that you are currently working on. This little app is written in Java, so [...]

This java application that I am going to start using is called ItSucks and is located here. I am going to be testing this little java app against my custom written in “C” spiders on my Linux machine. I will be using these spiders to find specialized Web pages that I have a [...]

I apologize for not writing in a long time, but my son’s end of school year activities were just running me ragged. I was lucky to have time to clean the house, cook meals, and still get any work done during the day. To top it all off I was foolish enough to try and [...]

I have recently needed to convert graphics information into data that I could feed into another program. This program of was of great help since, all I needed to do was scan the graphics into a BMP, and then feed that BMP file into this application and out can the data. I know [...]

This application is not for the neophyte, this application is about solids modeling. In its simplest form this application will take user inputs and construct 3-D models with startling results. But this application models the entire volume, not just the surface, not just the connections, not just the visual aspects. This application models the entire [...]

I have been really busy with work, and keeping up with taxes. Now that I am a contractor and not a full time employee, I have to deal with quarterly taxes, while at the same time filing my taxes. Fortunately for me I chose to use H & R Block’s Web service, and [...]

Well, it took a letter from the Attorney General’s office in California, but the idiots at Environmental Science in New Jersey agreed to pay for the shipping of the saw dust back to them. The reason was that it called and contacted my 15-year-old son, and it finally accepted that since he was a minor [...]