The rise of credible Open Source alternatives to entrenched commercial software continues. Today I uninstalled Winzip that I paid for a couple of years ago in favour of 7-zip. For me 7-zips ability to handle files with Russian and Kazakh language names was the deciding factor. Sorry Winzip. Go team 7-zip.
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The promise of infocard and digital identity is still a long way ahead of us. Until digital identity provision becomes a ‘no-brainer’ commodity technology we will still need to keep track of a multitude of usernames and passwords. My best estimate is that I have about 150 separate password and username pairs from...
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Working with fonts for Kazakh language is getting easier all the time.  Unicode is really having and impact and the old codepage soup is slowly disappearing.  Occasionally however, I still need to view a rogue Kazakh (or yesterday Kirghiz) font to find out where the characters are hiding.  The Arjan Mels freeware font...
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Desktop search has changed the way that I look at my computer. I spend a lot less time filing — and I can now find my old notes and emails much more reliably. I am currently using Copernic Desktop Search having dumped Google Desktop. Google Desktop kept crashing Outlook. ...
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I have looked for years for software that allows me to brainstorm. My friend Francis introduced me to Freemind which is now part of my working set of programs that I use daily. Freemind runs under the Java VM and is now at version .80 . Definately worth a look.
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