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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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