Category: software
Netbooks
I’m typing away on my Apple slim aluminum keyboard. It’s the one I poured nearly a full cup of coffee into a couple weeks ago. I dried it, wet it, dried it again and when it wouldn’t work I’d left it for dead. A week passed and I tried it one more time and it’s…
OpenOffice 3 RC1 released
UPDATE: The development community behind OpenOffice.org has created LibreOffice, which I now recommend instead of OpenOffice. Grab the latest version from libreoffice.org. Friday saw the release of the first release candidate of OpenOffice version 3, the free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office. The last thing an auctioneer needs when starting out or outfitting…
Flash is bad, m’kay
Flash shouldn’t be used on modern websites for anything but video.
Windows and email
Recently, I was astounded at the amount of anti-Vista sentiment at the National Auctioneers Association convention. Vista isn’t evil. It’s a much more secure operating system than XP and I rest easier at night knowing that most of my users are using Vista instead of XP. I have a bunch of complaints with Windows in…