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I have always been a big advocate of open source software, as demonstrated by many articles on this blog over the years. But one of the hardest transitions I had to personally make was the big switch from depending on Windows as my main operating system for my Laptop, and going the open source Linux [...]
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Written on January 9, 2010 at 3:37 pm by Chase Sagum
4 Reasons To Consider Switching to Ubuntu from Windows!
Written on November 21, 2009 at 10:52 am by Chase Sagum
Open Source Analytics On Your Desktop
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Remember the open source analytics web application Piwik? If you don’t read up on my post about building your own Google Analytics to learn more about Piwik. Anyways, there is a really cool Adobe Air application that allows you to view your website analytics from Piwik on your desktop! The Adobe Air app is called [...]
Written on November 18, 2009 at 2:45 pm by Chase Sagum
How To Quickly Respond To Emails with Thunderbird
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The Quicktext addon for Mozilla Thunderbird allows you to create email templates to place within email messages that you create. Here’s why you will find this addon useful. Often times, we find ourselves responding to certain kinds of email the same way every time. In this case, rather than having to rewrite your response every [...]
Written on October 29, 2009 at 8:00 am by Chase Sagum
Go with Scribus Rather Than Adobe Pagemaker or Apple’s Pages
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!
Written on October 28, 2009 at 8:00 am by Chase Sagum
Grammar & Spell Checker Plugin for Wordpress
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My biggest weakness in writing copy online is my grammar. Any of you who read my blog can vouch for this. It’s something i’m constantly working on to get better at. But this plugin for WordPress called ‘After the Deadline’ is helping me also. After the Deadline is a plugin that was purchased by the [...]
Written on October 23, 2009 at 1:51 pm by Chase Sagum
10 Mozilla Lab Projects You Should Be Aware Of!
Mozilla, the creator of the popular web browser Firefox and the popular email client Thunderbird, has more tricks up its sleeves than most people know. In this post we will take a look at the 10 projects that are at the forefront of Mozilla’s efforts.
It’s important for me to note that Mozilla is a huge player in the Open Source world. It’s safe to say that without the efforts of Mozilla and the thousands of developers who contribute to it’s projects daily, that Open Source as we currently know it would fail to exist…
