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Google… heh

I love Google! What a sense of humor (just kidding).

Stuff I Like - Software - Floppy Office

Floppy Office is a portable Office Suite that you guessed it, fits on a floppy disk.

Floppy Office is comprised of (very) small program replacements that have mixed into one suite. It is made up of these programs:

"[a] standalone email client, ftp client, graphics editor,
word processor, text editor, PDF creation software, web server for hosting
files via http, encryption software, zip utility, file renaming utility and
last but not least, a spreadsheet program -- all which fit on one
floppy disk easily!"

-From the Floppy Office Readme

What each application does, is explained in the readme file. There are some really great applications in this suite. These applications could be put onto a floppy flash drive and you wouldn't have to worry about taking up too much space.

Floppy Office

Weekend Project: Make a CD Clock!

I have spent my whole weekend making a CD Clock. You too, can make a CD clock for about $7.00.

Free Long Distance Calls and Phone reminders

I have found two very interesting phone related websites while surfing around.

You can make free long distance phone calls at Gizmo Call. Gizmo call gives you 5 minutes a day (10 if you register), to call most anyone in the world. After 5 (or 10) minutes, you can purchase additional minutes, in portions of $10.00. Your account depletes by only 1.5 cents per minute.

BrainCast lets you leave yourself messages, by calling a toll free number. Online, all you do is set up 1 to 3 phone numbers that you will be able to leave messages from. I added my cellphone number. Then you can call that toll free number from one of the phone numbers you have added to the BrainCast list. When you log back into BrainCast on your computer, you will see you most recent messages. The most effective way of sending yourself messages through BrainCast, is adding BrainCast's toll free number to your address book, and assigning it a number on your cellphones keypad as a shortcut.

Happy Vista Day!

Yup, Vista is finally out. Lets see, its been *counts on fingers* 1,2,3,4,5, yes five years. But I guess 5 years is what it takes to make a great (lets hope) Operating System. Vista comes in four flavors. Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate. What I hear is that Home Premium will be shipped on most OEM Machines. Also I hear that you don't want to buy Home Basic as it does not have important features (Areo Glass Folks :-P). I actually got to play with it for a few seconds over at my local Circuit City, and I have to to congratulate Microsoft (But it does look kind of Macish. Humm).

Free Software/Service: January 26, 2007

I haven't posted in a while. Sorry Guys! Well here is a new Software/Service post.
Software
Scribus-Free Desktop Publishing for Windows, Linux and Macintosh
Service
calcr-Small Calculator on the web. Saves Calculating history on your computer.