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Intuit Eats Mint

September 25, 2009

Financial software heavyweight Intuit recently purchased Mint, one of the hottest free online personal finance websites.
Mint provides free personal finance accounts and all sorts of services to help users balance their books, manage debt, and spend wisely. Mint launched just two years ago and by all measures has been a runaway success; earlier this year [...]

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Deal: Epson photo/CD-ROM printer only $55

April 18, 2009

Earlier this week we mentioned a great deal on Adobe’s Photoshop Elements photo editing software, which is 40% off for the next week.
On Friday, Peter Berge at Small Firm Success found a bargain on the Epson R280 color photo and CD/DVD printer, currently priced as low as $55.00.

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Get 20% off of A2 Hosting’s already-cheap plans

August 21, 2008

A2 Hosting has some pretty awesome hosting plans. For less than $8/month (if you pay 3 years in advance), you can get unmetered storage and bandwidth. They do not mean unlimited. No using your account for offsite backup, for example. But still, pretty good. No worries if you get hit by BoingBoing, for example.
But a [...]

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KOffice: a free office suite available soon on Windows

July 11, 2008

KOffice was originally developed for Linux, but one of the primary goals for KOffice 2.0 is for it to run on all three major operating systems: Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux.
Like OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office, KOffice is a full office suite. KOffice is free software and offers a full suite of applications, including for word [...]

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What are you paying for hosting—and are you getting your money’s worth?

July 9, 2008

Website and e-mail hosting are services for which you can pay a little or a lot with little difference in service. And sometimes you actually get more when you pay less.
For example, I pay $10/month for hosting for my firm website, three blogs (this blog, Caveat Emptor, and Lawyerist), and unlimited e-mail accounts. I get [...]

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Download Firefox 3 today!

June 17, 2008

Mozilla is looking to set a world record for one-day software downloads with the release of Firefox 3, which should be released sometime today is available now at getfirefox.com.
I have been using Firefox 3 for a little over a month now, and it really is a better browser. Better than Internet Explorer by a [...]

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Why you should try free software

June 6, 2008

“Free” has two meanings: (1) gratis, and (2) libertas. When I say free software, I mean libertas, although much free software is gratis, as well.
Choice
There are two parts to choice: (1) different software that does the same thing, and (2) the ability to modify software to do what you want.
Don’t like the way Word handles [...]

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One year with Linux in a Windows world

June 4, 2008

Mike Kavis switched to Linux to prove that people can be productive at work without using Microsoft products. One year later, he has proved the point.
I have been Microsoft free* for a couple of months now, as well, using Ubuntu GNU/Linux as my primary operating system, with OpenOffice.org as my office suite. I have not [...]

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Track time with Windows Notepad

May 28, 2008

Boyd Johnson has an ingenious way of tracking his time throughout the day. Just open Windows Notepad and, when starting a task, hit F5, which stamps the time into your text file. Make a note to help you flesh out the task on your billing sheet later, and off you go. Whenever you switch tasks, [...]

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Brits shying away from Microsoft Office

May 14, 2008

According to InformationWeek, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency is advocating for removing Microsoft Office from the classroom in favor of open-standards compliant office suites like OpenOffice.org.
It is good to see this kind of pressure on Microsoft. If they would either open up their OOXML standard or else support the Open Document Format like [...]

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