Category Archives: Software

Welcome back

Posted by on Saturday 7th April, 2007 No comments

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 …

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What are the alternatives to paying for software? Are they worth it?

Posted by on Saturday 7th April, 2007 No comments

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), …

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Microsoft’s biggest blunder

Posted by on Wednesday 26th April, 2006 No comments

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. …

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Microsoft Daylight Savings Patch

Posted by on Friday 17th March, 2006 No comments

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

New SEO Firefox extension

Posted by on Tuesday 15th March, 2005 No comments

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 …

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