Category: Software
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Free and powerful image editing
Continuing my series of posts about handy software that I use and love, I’ve now arrived at paint.net. Paint.net is a powerful piece of open-source image editing software which I’ve been using for a long time. It’s what I use to edit all of the images for my blog, and I’ve found it intuitive, practical…
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Firefox 3 – First impressions
On June 18th, 2008, some eight and a half million people downloaded the latest version of Mozilla Firefox. A powerful browser, built on the Gecko engine its greatest advantage is the fact that it is so easily expandable and customizable through powerful add-ons. There are a few new features that are most decidedly practical.…
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Software I cannot live without
Almost anyone that works with computers collect a few programs they can’t live without. For me, there are a few of them, and here they are: 1 – Notepad++ I’ve written about Notepad++ earlier, and there’s not much more to say other than the fact that it’s the best simple text editor I’ve encountered, and…
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Better Notepad
I write a lot of different things, from text for my blog, to content for my website to various kinds of code and script. For a long time I simply used notepad, it was most of what I needed, and it did the job. A while back, I discovered a very good alternative. It’s called…
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Why Webmail rocks my world
I’ve been using email since 1998, and from the get-go I’ve been using various webmail-clients, in addition to locally installed clients such as Outlook Express (urgh), Outlook (Yum-yum), Lotus Notes (Oh-so-bloated) and Thunderbird (Weighed, measured and found wanting). My first email address was a hotmail one, and although that specific incarnation of my online presence…
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Firefox: Disabling the Extension Install Delay
In a previous blogpost I wrote about my favorite Firefox extensions. One thing that annoys me though, is that whenever I try to install an extension, Firefox shows a dialog box, and grays out the “install” button for three seconds, like this: Naturally, this is annoying, but easily remedied. To do this, you need to…
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Testing Opera – first impressions
A friend of mine whose tech savvy is usually worth listening to waxed religious about Opera the other night. When he does, there’s usually a good reason, so I decided to check it out. Setting it up Setting up a webbrowser shouldn’t be a complicated process, and Opera is as simple to install as most…
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Firefox extensions
It’s time to actually post a technical blog-post to my blog, so here goes… My web-browser of choice is Mozilla Firefox, for a load of reasons, many of which I’ll go into later on. However, Firefox only gets me that far, and to get the whole nine yards, I use extensions. The reasons vary, but…