Mikogo is a free software for online meetings. The philosophy being you can have online meetings by sharing your desktop.
I tried it and so far have had pretty bad results with it. With 2-3 meetings I have had with mikogo, although the speed was pretty good, the frequency of disconnection was very high. It is [...]
I dont have money to buy photoshop, is there a free alternative?
The answer is GIMP. Gimp is an open source image editing, creation software widely used in linux platforms and is also available in windows. The strength of gimp comes not only from its basic features which are very much in league with adobe [...]
Free online meeting / web conferencing / collaboration
With online meeting becoming more and more pipular, there are two major trends of online meeting software available . These are:
- Collaboration with Desktop Sharing
- Collaboration at a online meeting place
Online Meeting place
Drupal has released new versions of its 6.x and 5.x series both fixing critical security releases. Please upgrade. Here is the official announcement.
So I dont have Microsoft Outlook. Is there a free alternative ?
Thunderbird : Solution from Mozilla labs, it is one of my favorites. Can be configured for pop3 and imap. Quick to setup and I really like the simplicity of the whole interface. Unlike outlook, it doesnt have integrated calendar, but calendar application can be [...]
So what are the free and open source blogging options?
My favorite is obviously wordpress (this site being created on that). But competition is the mother of progress, so here is a list of free and open blogging solutions available (reviews later). Although content management systems also provide blogging capabilities, I am listing only those which [...]
How to display drupal blocks inside a node (story)
I have been using Drupal for a long time now and havent really been able to achieve this. But it seems it is as simple as finding out the block number (here its 26) and then just insert the below code. Make sure input format is pho [...]
Just found out that DimDim 4.0 is now live with cool and awaited features such as:
- Recording
- Multiple Presenters
For more news, read the official release of dimdim 4.0
Please note that DimDim 4.0 is available as the enterprize version for now, dimdim open source is still on 3.x.
My favorite 10 wordpress plugins for a started website
I love top 10 lists. I am a fan of wordpress, so here are the top 10 wordpress plugins I suggest as must for any starter website:
- Who sees ads : Money making plugins first! Who sees ads is a very robust plugin which allows you to [...]
Mozilla Labs has announced SNOWL : experiment with a new interface which allows you to read and manage all your messages at once- forum discussions, rss or atom or social networking updates.
A prototype is available as a Firefox plugin.
Read here for more: Mozilla Snowl
Mozilla Labs has unveiled quick previews of its latest browser concept : Aurora . It has also called for participation in the concept so that the idea can grow.
read this article for full preview: Aurora : Call for participation
How can I create a quick tutorial for my team mates by capturing what I do on my desktop ? Are there any free tools to achieve this?
Really speaking the well developed and free screen capture tools (for windows) are very limited. This seems to be one of the areas where open source resolution hasnt [...]
Ever wondered how to browse the net faster? What is the best browser?
A lot of the windows users get stuck with Internet Explorer. Firefox is the most popular “other” option. Apple users use Safari and are quite happy with it, but I believe that for an average internet user or blogger the other following free [...]
A lot of times these terminologies are confused – Multi-platform, cross-platform and platform independent. Here is a quick reference for you:
Multi-platform or cross-platform software : software is available on more than one platforms (operating systems). This could mean two things -
