I’ve been waiting for Open Office 3 for a while for one of its best features, compatibility for Microsoft Office 2007 files.  For those of you that don’t know, Open Office is an Open Source alternative to Microsoft Office.  It is very easy to use and includes the full suite that you would get with [...]

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I just downloaded Launchy and I have to say it is a pretty cool app.  It indexes super fast and it very easy to use… it also ties into search with Google so that you can easily start a web search or type Weather <tab> then your zip code.  Kind of fun to mess around [...]

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The US Open starts tomorrow at Torey Pines, which is about 20 min north of downtown San Diego. The cool thing is that after the open I could go and play Torrey Pines as a run of the mill golfer On a side note, the Torrey Pines website is built on Joomla which is cool [...]

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New websites and new applications come up everyday. I’d say in a given day I evaluate close to 20 new software programs/websites. Through all of this evaluation there have been some staple programs/sites that I use on a daily basis. Here they are: iGoogle – It is a great starting page for aggregating email, scores, [...]

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For people that are stuck in Outlook or in another proprietary Legacy email client, I encourage you to take a look at a couple of Open Source Alternatives. I use Thunderbird, which is created by Mozilla (Makers of FireFox). It is easy to install and has a lot of awesome plugins to add extra functionality [...]

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