Friedbeef’s Tech

Open Source Goody Bag : More Freebies

27. September 2006

“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 a philosophy, [...]

Save Time With One Click Answers

25. September 2006

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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 [...]

An Interview with a Firefox Evangelist

22. September 2006

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If youâ€™re a Firefox user like 52% of this siteâ€™s visitors, you would have probably heard of â€˜Spread Firefoxâ€™, 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 [...]

How to Attach and Save Files Faster

19. September 2006

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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 [...]

Highlights from the TMNet Streamyx User Group Meeting

16. September 2006

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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 single [...]