We have not written many articles about Windows 7 here at Ghacks in the past. This was mainly because of the fact that virtually any other website on the planet did post every tidbit of news that they could get their hands on. Today however is an important date as Microsoft will publish a public [...]
Mount Remote FTP And Webdav Servers
NetDrive is a software to mount remote ftp and webdav servers that somehow has never been mentioned at Ghacks before. That’s a rare occurrence especially if the software is well designed and free. A large portion of webmasters have to connect to remote ftp servers regularly to update files on the website. There are obviously [...]
KompoZer, a free, open-source and half-decent WYSIWYG web editor
Dreamweaver and Frontpage are no doubt the most popular WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) HTML editors but carry a pretty large pricetag, with Dreamweaver costing about £500! Naturally, neither work under Linux either! KompoZer is a free, open-source and cross-platform WYSIWYG editor which should fill the needs of any home user.
Whilst KompoZer has not been updated since 2007, [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Dec 29th, 2008
- Comments: 7
Abiword: A Lean Word-processing Machine
I like my tools to be efficient. Part of efficiency is opening quickly, not sucking up all of my systems’ resources, and saving in various formats. When considering office needs one of the first tools that pops into my mind is word processing. Naturally the masses will first turn to either MS Office or OpenOffice. [...]
Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: WinSnap And WindowSpace
Only three days left before the first Ghacks Christmas Giveaway ends. We have got two software programs and five licenses for each today. WinSnap and WindowSpace are both developed by NTwind who are known for their free Taskswitch XP application.
WinSnap is also known as the Windows Snapshot Maker, a screenshot application that is available as [...]
Create and edit vector graphics for free
Creating graphics on a computer affordably can prove a difficult task, especially for images besides rasters. Some people need to create images which can be expanded on massive scales; they need a vector editing application. Adobe Illustrator CS4, the leading vector editor for Mac and Windows, costs £567… a pretty high price tag, you must [...]
Use spare processing power for science
A computer’s processor and RAM are often not fully used, especially, for example, at nights when files are being downloaded. Instead of allowing it to go to waste, one can donate their spare computer resources to numerous projects which use BOINC.
BOINC allows people to give a certain percentage of their computer’s resources to different causes, [...]
