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  • Open source/free alternatives

    I’ve been telling often (too often?) that you should replace your Microsoft Office with the cheap (free!) and powerful OpenOffice desktop suite. But some of my readers wanted to know about other replacement solutions for PC applications running under MS-Windows. Here are my “Open source alternatives to popular PC software“: Title / Download Comments Firefox…

  • You come from everywhere

    You come from everywhere

    …as is shown on this map: The Roumazeilles.net visitors come from every corner of the world.

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  • 25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece

    25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece

    This is an art project using the collaborative Internet to create one of the largest images in the world. MillionMasterPiece.com wants to create an historic art master piece by collating one million small 160×160 images, leading to more than 25 giga-pixels of contemporary art. You can join for free or, even better, you can donate…

  • A more perceptible digital divide

    A recent study from Parks Associates indicates that 30% of Americans do not have Internet access and… don’t want one. We could draw the easy conclusion that one third of all Americans are even much more antiquated than their worst popular image. Various anti-americanisms would be only marginally reinforced from that. But I feel it…

  • 101 freeware and shareware programs

    Software programs to do anything you want with your PC if you are a bit more geeky than most but do not want to pay much. Freeware & shareware.

  • Spammers hit by the SEC

    You certainly noticed in the flood of SPAMs that is probably arriving in your mailbox as in mine, that many of them are promoting stock exchange securities -that you usually do not know about. This is generally part of an elaborate (but old) scam known as ‘pump and dump‘. It consists in buying shares of…

  • YAPB: A photoblog using WordPress

    I did not yet have time to evaluate it formally but, on the paper, it seems that YAPB (Yet another photo blog) is a plugin allowing ot easily build a photoblog based upon WordPress (the size of thumbnails is configurable, WordPress themes are still usable, but there is no galery). One rule: One image, one…

  • Webcron.org: crontab on the web

    Webcron is an automated task service at set hours. If you know Unix or Linux you already heard about the Crontab. Webcron is a Web adaptation of this well-known Crontab. But nothing complicated at all! Webcron allows you to do tasks at set hours by looking for a page on your website. For example, save…