“Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ‘free’ as in ‘free speech’ not as in ‘free beer.’” -Richard Stallman. Founder of the Free Software Movement. Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product’s sources. Some consider it as…
Imagine looking up any topic with a single mouse click from any application. No need to pop open a browser, look it up on Google, or even visit a website. Some time ago I wrote about One-Click Answers from Firefox, and how easy it was to use. I’ve recently revisited this free plugin by the…
If you’re a Firefox user like 52% of this site’s visitors, you would have probably heard of ‚¬ËœSpread Firefox’, which is a community aimed at promoting the use of Firefox as alternative browser among the general Internet population. I recently managed to catch up with one of its active members, South African Firefox evangelist Charl…
By default all MS-Office applications will remember the last location you saved or attached a file from. This may be useful feature, but what if you have a few commonly used directories? Isn’t it a drag switching between them? How to setup a one click solution to get to your favourite directories: Select the directory…
TMNet Streamyx has organised the formation of structured independent user groups to act as a focused voice to push the company in the right direction. On the surface, it looks like a cheap marketing ploy, and exploiting users to fix customer relations for them, but look at it this way… In a country where a…
