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Category: Social issues

  • Thunderbird 2.0 flies freely

    Mozilla just announced the availability of the newest version of its email reader Thunderbird. New functionalities. English versions: Windows Mac OS X Linux French versions: Windows Mac OS X Linux

  • Open source/free alternatives

    I’ve been telling often (too often?) that you should replace your Microsoft Office with the cheap (free!) and powerful OpenOffice desktop suite. But some of my readers wanted to know about other replacement solutions for PC applications running under MS-Windows. Here are my “Open source alternatives to popular PC software“: Title / Download Comments Firefox…

  • µTorrent in beta for Vista

    Popular torrent client µTorrent released a new public beta earlier today. The beta is an early build of µTorrent version 1.7 and the most significant new feature is full support for Windows Vista. Source: Wired.com.

  • FireFox with a Google toolbar

  • Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!

    Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!

    Thanks to Neatorama

  • Top 10 infant mortality

    The other day, I was looking at the list of the ten countries most hardly hit by infant mortality (according to the CIA World Fact Book 2005). The top 10 (or should I say Bottom 10) is: Angola (197.8 for 100 births) after a civil war between 1975 and 2002 Afghanistan (163.07 for 100 births)…

  • A more perceptible digital divide

    A recent study from Parks Associates indicates that 30% of Americans do not have Internet access and… don’t want one. We could draw the easy conclusion that one third of all Americans are even much more antiquated than their worst popular image. Various anti-americanisms would be only marginally reinforced from that. But I feel it…

  • Photoshop supports HD Photo format

    HD Photo, this is th new name of the image format from Microsoft that they want to replace JPEG, PNG, Raw and GIF. It was previously known -at launch time- as Windows Media Photo and it is now fully integrated into Windows Vista. Adobe Photoshop will support this format through a plugin to donwload from…

  • DRM kills business

    It’s all over the place today: German MusicLoad revealed that 75% of its customer support calls were about complaining around the problems created by the inclusion of Digital Rigths Management (DRM) in the MP3 files they sell. Coming from a company that is living from the sale of legal MP3s, it has a lot of…