Use Google Docs with MS Office

Today I am working with Google Apps collaboration using MS Office tools on the front end: multi-person, simultaneous editing to the Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint application. I have some large legacy work that I can’t simply convert to Google Docs but need the benefits of web-powered collaboration: online backup, view only web sharing, file [...]

21 Awesome (But Lesser-Known) Open-Source Applications for Windows

21 Awesome (But Lesser-Known) Open-Source Applications for Windows

Reposted from www.tipsfor.us

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock in Madagascar for the last few years, you undoubtedly already know about the All-Star open-source applications for Windows. I’m talking about applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, OpenOffice, and VLC.

However, there are hundreds of lesser-known [...]

Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs

Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs Author: Samer

Description: I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that I had to re-install all the essential software that I use. It also presented an opportunity to write a posting about how you can outfit your computer with all [...]

Time Machine for every Unix out there

Time Machine for every Unix out there – IMHO Time Machine for every Unix out there Using rsync to mimic the behavior of Apple’s Time Machine feature

rsync is one of the tools that have gradually infiltrated my day to day tool-box (aside Vim and Zsh).

Using rsync it’s very easy to mimic Mac OS [...]

GParted — LiveCD

GParted — LiveCD GPARTED-LiveCD

The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card size LiveCD.

The CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg,the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest [...]

TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux

TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux T r u e C r y p t Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux Main Features:

Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.

Encrypts an entire hard [...]

FOSS for Security

FOSS for Security | Daily Cup of Tech It never ceases to amaze me how much quality freeware/open source software (FOSS) there is out there. In honor of Security Week, I have decided to compile a list of security related FOSS.

I have broken the security software into the following categories:

* Anti-Phishing * [...]