Category: Tech

  • FOSS OTD: Desktop Weather

    The Weather Channel makes their forecasts, weather alerts, live traffic info, and other information available on your desktop with Desktop Weather. It’s free (not open source), but there is a paid version with a few more features. The free version is adware – it shows ads within the application, itself, but does not show them…

  • FOSS OTD: Google Desktop

    Today’s FOSS OTD is Google Desktop. Google Desktop is not open source, but it is free, and it is very, very useful. I use it all the time to locate e-mails I can’t seem to find on my own, or to figure out what webpage it was that had some useful piece of information, or…

  • FOSS OTD (10/14): OpenOffice.org

    The FOSS OTD for 10/14 is OpenOffice.org, a free, multiplatform, multilingual office suite. Capable of handling nearly all features of and file types used in more expensive software, such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org is a great option for many users. Because of some quirks in Office and the ease of using OpenOffice.org to edit multiple…

  • FOSS OTD: FeedReader

    If you’re on here and understand that you are reading a blog, you are likely familiar with RSS and Atom technologies. RSS and Atom files (“feeds”) are each ways of syndicating content from a website. For example, this blog’s RSS feed contains headlines and short summaries of long posts, or the full content of short…

  • FOSS OTD (10/12): Gaim

    Most of the people reading this page probably have an AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) screen name. A lot of you probably have AOL, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Jabber screen names. Keeping all those IM (Instant Messaging) clients logged in and up to date can be a real pain. Enter Gaim, today’s FOSS OTD.…