Download of the week

Fonts. You can't live with them, you can't kill them. A system heavy with installed fonts is slow to start up and can also see slow downs in applications that load your installed font list like Word or Photoshop. There are lots of font managers out there, but the commercial applications are usually overkill for [...]

Mac & Windows download of the week

OpenOffice.org is the open source (free) alternative to Microsoft Office. I know that this seems like a cheap out doing both a Mac and a Windows download together, but this one is certainly worthy. OpenOffice is standard software that we install on all of our new computers at the lab. Our office needs for the [...]

Windows download of the week

 
Probably shouldn't have titled this "download of the week" because that implies that I will do this every week. I'll try.
I hate Windows Explorer. Not for what is wrong with it but for what it doesn't do. My biggest complaint is having multiple windows open to do drag and drop functions between folders. I tried [...]

idImager Lite Version

I gave idImager a look several years ago when I trying to decide on a move from ACDSee 4. I don't use a photo browser for many tasks, but the ones that I use I really do need. For sorting and rating images as well as assigning keywords for searching and editing IPTC info I [...]

Google apps for your domain

Posted 10/17/06: I signed up for Google apps for your domain a long while ago but never did anything with it. I didn’t mind if Gmail hosted the POP portion of the server but I didn’t want my outgoing mail server to show as gmail.com. We don’t host our web server or mail server in [...]

Filmloop

I found out about Filmloop.com on the Guy Kawasaki blog. His VC firm invested in them and he made mention of them one day because of this new feature where you could enter a search term and the “loop” would download images and links from eBay based on what you entered. I thought that it [...]