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Category: Software

  • Vista opening sound will be compulsory

    I do not report each and every little news about the upcoming Windows XP replacement. But today, we are learning that Microsoft marketing got one weird idea. Since they want Vista to show a “common, and beautiful, face to the world”, they decided that the music/sound provided by Microsoft as an opening sound for Windows…

  • PDF Creator web site moved

    PDF Creator (the free open-source PDF production application) has moved to a new web site : PDFforge.

  • OpenOffice nearly ready for Mac OS-X

    We just learned that the OpenOffice development team will show its desktop software suite running on Mac OS-X in the upcoming Apple Expo (next month in Paris). Welcome to the Mac lovers in the world of free Word, Excel and PowerPoint (we remember that Microsoft Office is seriously abandonned on the Mac nowadays).

  • K9 efficiency against SPAM

    K9 efficiency against SPAM

    A free software allows you to efficiently filter SPAM out of your mail box. I measured precisely its efficiency.

  • 6 steps to a web site

    If you want to publish a web site, you may be interested by the following series of articles I wrote about how to quickly create a full-fledged web site using WordPress. Get a domain name Rent web publishing space Connect web space and domain name Configure the Apache server Install WordPress Call the search engines…

  • SPF-compliant DNS declaration

    For the roumazeilles.net domain, I published an SPF-compliant declaration (in the DNS Bind zone file). roumazeilles.net. IN TXT “v=spf1 ip4:81.57.246.28 a mx ptr include:free.fr include:magic.fr -all”

  • Several software magnifiers

    For various reasons, I have been looking for software tools able to magnify an image or a zone of the computer screen. Here are some of the links I collected this way: The Microsoft PowerToys include a Windows XP screen magnifier that can be installed in the taskbar. ZoomAView – The Computer Magnifier!: A powerful,…

  • Social bookmarking on Roumazeilles.net

    According to Wikipedia, social bookmarking is “an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the use of shared lists of user-created Internet bookmark lists“. Popular bookmarking services include del.icio.us, digg.com, and YahooMyWeb. If you have signed up for any of these services, you can bookmark articles on Roumazeilles.net for your…

  • Collateral damage from SPAM

    Back from my Summer vacations, a little surprise was waiting for me with more than 20,000 messages stored in the verious mailboxes I use daily. First, I thought that I had been receiving a mere flood of SPAM (I get easily 300 SPAMs a day, so in a period of 10 days it could have…