• Make OpenOffice Work Better with Word

    I’ve used OpenOffice on occasion, and am quite happy with the features it has as far as word processing go. However, conversions back and forth to Word can be spotty. Cnet has an article about how to make OpenOffice play nice with Word docs. Won’t make it perfect, but some of the changes will definitely…

  • Spam

    Recent WordPress Spam: The Lazy: ‘Payday Loan’ and ‘Faxless Payday Loans’ The almost Celebrity named: Allison Hannigan, yeah, I don’t think so. pwnz0red by teh englihs: Bill… Good up the good work…. Thanks to akismet for stopping over 100 spams, but still letting me see them for the comedic value.

  • Batch Rename Digital Photos by Date

    Lifehacker posted a note about Namexif, a quick and dirty tool to rename your digicam photos based on EXIF date info. It’s a feature that you can get via other means (Irfanview and Picasa have ways to do it) buf if you don’t use either of those, you can try this. The comments on that…

  • Lifehack Your Leopard Mac

    I know I have at least a few Mac readers based on my site stats, so this one’s for you. Lifehacker has a conglomeration of tweaks for Mac OS X Leopard, from killing the reflectivity and transparency of the Dock, to customizing Quick Look and Time Machine. Take a look, they may have a solution…

  • InterGalactic Medicine Show

    If you are a fan of science fiction, you should check out Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, which is an anthology of stories from OSC’s web magazine. Two friends of mine have been published there (Ty Franck and Scott Roberts) and would make the compilation well worth it.

  • Google Search Tricks

    You may know some of these already, but Lifehacker has a handy guide for getting more than just your normal search results from Google. Since many of us have Google as our homepages (or use the Google toolbar), it’s a quick and easy way to find out when a movie is playing, check the weather,…

  • 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year

    The BBC News site has a list of 100 things we didn’t know last year. Here are some of my favorites: 5. Cloudy apple juice is healthier than clear, containing almost double the antioxidants which protect against heart disease and cancer. Hmm, exactly the opposite of urine. 17. Two cups of spearmint tea a day…

  • A Post 9/11 Perfect Storm of Overused Words and Phrases

    A yearly list out of Lake Superior State University’s PR department highlights words and phrases they consider overused. Included are the above mentioned ‘perfect storm’ and ‘post 9/11’, as well as ‘x is the new y’ and ‘surge’ (not the drink). I have to apologize, though, as I will continue to throw things under the…

  • 24 ways – Performance On A Shoe String

    Drew McLellan has posted a very good run down of how to improve blog (and general website) performance. It covers caching, outsourcing of feeds, and using something like Amazon’s S3 to host large files, just as an example.

  • GIMP Plugins

    TechZilo has a post with links to more than 40 very useful GIMP plugins.

  • Lifehacker: Update Windows, Linux Style

    Appupdater is a executable that lets you run command line updates for a wide range of applications, going as far back as Windows 98. If you have used the apt or yum package management available in many Linux distros, it works in much the same way. Looks like it could be a real help to…

  • Nanosolar 'Prints' First Flexible Solar Panels

    It really seems like these guys are the real deal, and not one of the many ‘look at this cool tech!’ companies who gather interest (and investors) and disappear to the vaporware wastes with Duke Nukem 4ever and flying cars.

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