Monthly Archives: July 2008

Welcome to Open Alternatives

Welcome to Open Alternatives – A place to discover the latest free alternatives to the costly softwares such as – Online meeting, Web Content Managements, blogging, Screen capture tools, graphics tools, project management tools, e-commerce software and more …. Have a question? join the community:
Forums : Open and Free alternatives to commercial software

Cuil : Free search engine and google alternative

Cuil Search Engine

Cuil search was launched today and claims to be “the worlds biggest search engine”. The search engine aims to index pages based on relevance and content. On the web Cuil is being hailed as “next google” although the first few searches (that we did) reveal vast differences between the two, but not in [...]

Best free web conferencing, web meeting, online collaboration alternatives with VOIP

The features I give very high priority in a web conferencing tool are:
- VOIP: International attendees cant pay bills for long distance calls. Integrated VOIP to rescue!
- Zero Install: Most of my attendees are non IT people. Installation just makes it that much more difficult for them.
- Whiteboards: I like to use my cyberpad to [...]

Drupal released 5.9 and 6.3 versions as security updates

On July 9, 2008, Drupal released versions 5.9 and 6.3 fixing some of the security vulnerabilities found in the code. Apart from the security vulnerabilities it also fixes some of the bugs that were reported.
Here is a question – what be the version of next release in 5.x series? 5.9 is out ..and 6.0 has [...]

DimDim Vs Wiziq : The free web meeting , conferencing and online classroom tools

DimDim Vs Wiziq : Web conferencing, Online meeting, Virtual classroom ….

As a presenter, I have used both the web conferencing tools on the offer – Wiziq and DimDim. I found that both the tools have quite amazing features apart from being free… well for most part! Here is a small comparison based on my experience [...]

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