Ed Cottrell

  • FOSS OTD: WordPress

    Today’s FOSS OTD is WordPress, Free Blog Tool and Weblog Platform. WordPress makes it amazingly easy to set up and maintain a blog, with tons of plugins and easy theme creation. It’s the software that powers this blog, and I give it my hearty endorsement.

  • Forget breaking .500…

    I’ll settle for breaking .200, this year… Details here.

  • Awesome

    So, the White Sox are going to the World Series, and the Astros are probably going to join them. I am a happy man.

  • 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…