Moodling

Moodle, if you do not know, is a course management system or CMS (Joomla is a CMS too, but in Joomla's case CMS stands for Content Management System). Moodle basically allows people to develop and run just about any course for just about any subject on-line.   It's open source and its free.  The … [Read more...]

Danea Easyfatt 2006

If you happen to be registered for IVA - VAT in the UK, then you will have to prepare VAT invoices and it is nice to have some way of monitoring when and what people actually pay you. You can just rely on Word and Excel or you could invest in some 'tax-deductable' software to help you. Last year I … [Read more...]

ProShow Gold 2.6

It's been quite some time since I had fun with a computer program, but ProShow Gold is proving to be one of the best applications I've played with for a while. As I mentioned in a previous post, I decided to try to create a DVD with some of the masses of digital photos we have. Should be a … [Read more...]

Open your mind to Open Source

Even though this old world may at times seem to be without hope, there are certain things which make you think that there may well be hope for us all. One such thing is the open source software movement. This veritable army of good souls from all corners of our suffering planet are trying to do … [Read more...]

One heck of a (free) graphics program

Got no money? Want a graphics program? Get this: Expression 3. I don't think you will regret it. It is great and it's free, free, free. Might take a while to download if you are not on a broadish band - 55 megs.You will need to spend a little time getting used to how it works and having a … [Read more...]