thinkStack is back – with more regular posts. To start off, I’m going to be writing a few articles aimed a bit more at the non-technical people. I’ll be writing about The Alternatives. It strikes me how so many people stick with the status quo when it comes to IT, even though in the vast [...]

This article is part of a series on The Alternatives. See this post for more information. The open source software movement has grown rapidly in recent years. We now have an alternative to Microsoft Office (that can open Office files), and we have Linux operating systems that don’t require you to be a Linux guru [...]

I was pointed to an interesting article today, about Microsoft’s biggest blunder – their bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. The article says: “All of Microsoft’s Internet-era public-relations and legal problems (in some way or another) stem from Internet Explorer. If you were to put together a comprehensive profit-and-loss statement for IE, there would be [...]

Anyone in the eastern states of Australia (minus Queensland and plus South Australia) who is using a Windows machine may find the following patch useful: Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Products for the Year 2006

A new Firefox extension was released recently, and it’s looking to be useful. It’s SEOpen, and although I haven’t really tested it much yet, it looks like it’ll be useful. It ads a new context menu submenu, with links to services like Google and Yahoo backlinks, whois, robots.txt viewer, and others. All the stuff I [...]