Category: Software

  • Less keyboard, more work

    We do so much typing that we tend to forget about it. But there are ways to improve the situation (ensuring that you type less to produce more text).one of the best ways is to identify the texts you keep typing on the keyboard. then, you just have to use a utility program to help…

  • OpenOffice.org v3.2 available for free download

    The excellent office desktop suite, OpenOffice.org (Word, Excel and PowerPoint, in a free form, if you want) just moved to version 3.2 (still free). New features: Faster start-up times Compatibility with MS-Office 2007 documents Better Compatibility with MS-Office 97, 2000, XP documents, encrypted with a password Importation of dynamic tables from Excel Comments are now…

  • SixthSense

    The TED Talk conferences are often a great moment of technologie accessible to the largest numbers and an opportunity for the démonstration of what could be our future if the great thinkers of our time work on it. The following conference (from Pranav Mistry) wants to give us a rought idea of perspectives opened by…

  • Mafia Wars: All in one post

    Mafia Wars: All in one post

    By popular demand, I will group here all the posts I made previously about how to improve your Mafia Wars performance (Mafia Wars is the #1 Crime game on Facebook). Mafia Wars: Get a large mafia in no time Mafia Wars: Maximum loot Mafia Wars: How many points? Mafia Wars: Combat strategy Mafia Wars: Best…

  • IE6 is dead, says Google

    Following our previous post about the evolutions of web browsers, it is interesting to notice that Google just announced that their on-line applications (GMail, Calendar, GDoc, etc.) will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 starting next month. It is time to go to a more recent (and more secure) technology, as mentioned before. Update: I…

  • Scan a book like a pro

    Scan a book like a pro

    The document scanner has long been a tool of the most usual appearance and scanning a digital copy of a document is now of such ease that anybody can do it. Nevertheless, there is a large gap between a pro scan of a full book and the slightly better than average Xerox-like copy that we…

  • IE6 becomes Firefox 3.6 with the help of China

    IE6 becomes Firefox 3.6 with the help of China

    This week has seen a pretty exhilarating story develop in front of our Internet eyes. Started as a muddy conflict between Google and the People’s Republic of China, it turned into a Firefox marketing victory. Let me summarize it a bit. In the beginning was Google which installed its servers in China in 2006. The…

  • Cygnus for Windows 7

    The Cygnus name will certainly remind you of something ig you are interested into GNU/Linux, but maybe not more. Actually, this is a software package which has been designed to provide a lot of the “basic” Linux commands to be used from inside a Command-Line box of Windows. Version 1.7 of Cygnus is now available…

  • Find your free wallpapers with Google

    Find your free wallpapers with Google

    If you’re like most people, you’d like to have pretty wallpaper on your desktop background. You can always go to wallpaper web sites but most of them are choke-full of ads and they always provide the same usual set. How about getting new ones? Use Google. Now, Google is able to search images by size.…