Category: Software

  • 101 freeware and shareware programs

    Software programs to do anything you want with your PC if you are a bit more geeky than most but do not want to pay much. Freeware & shareware.

  • Cheap backup on Windows

    One of the most important and still one of the most poorly applied tasks of computer calysthenics in the world is data backup. Usually, it’s only when you discover that you lost your important data that you remember that you should have been backing things up. A little too late… Requirement What are the qualities…

  • NeoOffice: OpenOffice for Mac

    NeoOffice: OpenOffice for Mac

    NeoOffice is a OS X port of OppenOffice.org by a group of developers who have thought from the beginning that the Main OO.o team was taking the wrong tack in offering X-11 support on the Mac. Aqua-native, includes both PPC and Intel binaries, allows Spotlight to index both content and metadata of OpenOffice and OpenDocument…

  • A Vista workaround for PDF Creator

    As I reported previously PDF Creator, the free PDF producing tool, happens not to work for Vista. However, it has been published a possible workaround (unconfirmed officially) to this problem. Install pdfcreator in ‘server mode’ as ‘xp compatible’ and then tell it to ‘render output on client’ machine, and set the sharing to the default…

  • 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…

  • STALKER has arrived

    Here it comes! I had told you about it. Now many users on the web are tlking about this FPS game, Stalker – Shadow of Chernobyl. Some examples: PC IGN (English) GamePro (English) GameSpot (English) Bit-Tech.net (English) Inpact virtuel (French) Globaly, the opinions are VERY favorable on most aspects (playability, quality of images, gamer immersion,…