Websites that I manage | |
 | What is? What! A question and answer site. Submit "What is" questions, get an answer. |
 | Lyrics List Web site with song lyrics. Has an interesting XML backend. Yet another project that I never finished. |
 | Technology Sleuth This site has technology-related information in a simple question layout. Each question has three answers: Short Answer, Long Answer, and Technical Answer. This makes the site a thorough reference for the technologically-naive, yet a powerful reference for techies. |
 | Simple Sniff This site provides some useful information regarding a users environment, such as IP address and accepted encodings. |
 | Gmail - com Some information about gmail. Also includes gmail tips and tricks. |
Websites that I use and recommend | |
 | Portable Apps Portable Apps is a website listing FOSS software that can be run without installation on a MS Windows computer. Usually, the intention is to run the software from a portable USB drive. |
Software that I use and recommend | |
| Open Office Open Office is a FOSS office suit that runs on Windows and Linux computers. It's default write format is ODF, it can write PDF and DOC files, and it can read most DOC files. I carry Portable OpenOffice in my pocket on a USB memory stick. (Technion Mirror of Portable OpenOffice) |
| Kubuntu Kubuntu is a FOSS operating system. It is Debian-based, modified and supported by the huge Ubuntu community, and uses the KDE desktop. |
| Firefox Firefox is a FOSS web browser. It is standards compliant and infinitely extensible with it plugin architecture. I even carry Portable Firefox in my pocket for the times that I must use a computer without Firefox already installed. Windows users might want to install Microsoft's ClearType Tuner PowerToy along with Firefox to enable ClearType in non-MS software. |
| Opera Opera is a proprietary, standards-compliant web browser. It is probably the safest browser for MS Windows computers. Although I use Firefox instead of Opera because of extentions that help me work, I highly recommend Opera and I am convinced that it is the best web browser available. |
| Skype Skype is a proprietary Internet VOIP application that runs on Windows and Linux computers. Skype also has the ability to call standard telephones and an integrated, proprietary IM client. |
Software and tools to help people | |
| Sun ODF Plugin 1.1 for Microsoft Office This plugin for Microsoft Office enables the software to read and write ODF documents. This permits archival of documents in a standard format that is not subject to proprietary licensing or withdrawal of support. I have not yet tested this tool, however, it comes highly recommended from a software vendor that I trust. |
| 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF This Add-in to MS Office 2007 lets users save documents as PDF files. This permits distribution and read-only archival of documents. I have not yet tested this tool, however, it comes from the maker of MS Office itself (for what that's worth). |
| PDFCreator PDFCreator is a FOSS Windows print driver that lets any program print to PDF. I recommend disabling the toolbar installation, which the installer is very upfront about and does not hide. I see no reason to create the Start Menu folder, Desktop Icon, or Windows Explorer context menu either, but some people may find these options useful. |
