Recent software

• Six Things I Love About The Opera Browser

  Lately I am trying to go through some of the drafts I have saved for posting on my blog, so many of the posts that will appear over the next few days will result from that attempt.  I start with just such an article about the Opera Browser.  Since anyone who reads this blog knows [...]

  August 31st, 2008

• Fanboy Post: Forget Firefox – I’m going back to Opera for browsing and email

  As reported a few days ago by Daniel Goldman (see link below), Columnist Andrew Brown, of The Guardian, wrote a column explaining why he is switching back to Opera from Firefox 3.
  With the release of Firefox 3, I mounted a private celebration: I went back to using Opera 9.5 as my main browser. This [...]

  July 11th, 2008

• Xobni: A Social Network In Your Inbox

  Xobni Insight makes Microsoft Outlook better:

  Lightning-fast
  email search

  Threaded email
  conversations

  Discover email relationships
  Xobni (it’s inbox backwards - how quaint) is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook which shows the hidden social network in your inbox. Xobni adds a sidebar to Outlook and then tracks your contacts and organizes the messages into threaded conversations. It adds a profile for each [...]

  February 8th, 2008

• Spicebird - Email, Calendar, Tasks, and More (An Outlook Replacement?)

  If you don’t like to use Outlook, there is now a new PIM (Personal Information Manager) out there for you to consider.  Combining the best of Thunderbird and Lightning with a snazzy new interface, we now have Spicebird to play around with. As Cybernet says:
  The most unique features would be the customizable homepage and [...]

  January 16th, 2008

• FeedDemon and NetNewsWire are now FREE

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  Looking for the perfect desktop feedreader?  Look no further.  FeedDemon and NetNewsWire are now free.  I have sung the praises of FeedDemon before, and even bought the program a little over a year ago for $15.00 on sale because none of the other free desktop feedreaders were up to snuff as far as [...]

  January 9th, 2008