Music plays a big role for me while I’m blogging throughout the day. It keeps me sane. It keeps me motivated. And it believe it or not it helps me stay focused on the task at hand.  In this post I thought I would share with you some of the music I listen to throughout [...]

Ever been across a blog lately that has a “Follow Me” badge fixed on either the left or the right of the browser when you visit their site? Ever wonder how you can get one of those? This cool simple little plugin for WordPress simply adds this Follow Me badge to your site in just a couple seconds. All you do is download the plugin here, install it on your WordPress self-hosted blog…

I was asked recently by a good friend of mine what the difference was between having your own web desktop and using Google’s web based productivity tools. It’s actually a good question. But there are 3 specific reasons why I am enjoying using the open source eyeOS and hosting my own web desktop, as opposed [...]

Amberjack is a simple, easy to customize open source website tour creator built primarily using Javascript. Typically when you see website tours you either see videos or screencasts. But with this javascript application you can give a site tour, directing people through a series of your content pages in a specific order with having to use video or a screencast…

I wrote a while back about eyeOS, the open source web desktop and the benefits for web workers in a post titled 8 Ways EyeOS Can Help You in Business. In case you are still in the dark as to what eyeOS is refer to that page. In this post I am going to show [...]

If you have not yet heard of the Open Source desktop publishing software Scribus, well then this will be a pleasant surprise. Scribus, licensed under the GNU General Public License, is a completely free and open source alternative to Adobe’s Pagemaker and Apple’s Pages. With it you can create a variety of different documents that for one reason or the other, need to look good!