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February 11th, 2008
If you’ve been following this site for a while, you know I’m a big fan of good freeware.
I’ve recently discovered a real star - Launchy.
Launchy is a small and fast application launcher with a twist.
Simply click Alt-Space to open the small cool-looking command bar and simply start writing any part of the application or file [...]
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February 7th, 2008
TrueCrypt is one of the must-have free Open-Source applications in my list. It is a Disk Encryption software you use for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device).
It’s really one of the most celebrated Open-Source applications, as it’s well engineered, simple to understand, simple to use and actually answers a very concrete need [...]
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January 31st, 2008
If a friend or colleague sends you a document and you receive an .odt file, you quickly discover it cannot be opened with Microsoft Word.
.odt is the default file format of documents written in the OpenOffice.org equivalent of Microsoft Office. OpenOffice does have the ability to “Save As” regular .doc Word files, but many people [...]
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January 17th, 2008
In a (very) surprising move, this morning it was reported that Sun acquires MySQL!
MySQL is the most popular Open-Source database, running among other things most of the Web sites on the Internet (Including AviDardik.com!) and most popular Open-Source projects that require a database.
Read the MySQL Blog post about the acquisition.
Read the official Sun announcement.
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