There are plenty of free photo-editing programs. Not all will be suitable for you. If you're new to this, try a simple program like PhotoPlus. IrfanView is also easy. You can crop, add captions and convert photos to different formats, but editing is limited. For more advanced features, try Paint.NET. You can work with layers and add special effects. The professionals use Photoshop. For something comparable, try GIMP. You'll find links to all these Read the rest of this entry »

Sorry, but it's true. As such it is no surprise that few people use things he'd consider free. He has a very rigid definition of it, one that many people might disagree with. For example the BSD crowd might say his definition is messed up since it doesn't include the freedom to take something and make it not free.
Regardless, because of his stance on it, most people don't use software that's Stallman Free(tm). We live in a real world, and imperfect Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to email a few questions to Richard Stallman, you have to be prepared to take the answers on his terms.
Your email has to include two guarantees: first, you need to promise that you will only ever refer to open source software as 'free software', and secondly you need to ensure that Linux is always referred to as GNU/ Linux.
Without your promise that both of these requests will be met, Richard Stallman won't answer your questions. Read the rest of this entry »

December 31, 2008
Kim Komando, Gannett News Service
I recently bought a digital camera. I don't have the money for photo-editing software, but I'd still like to edit my photos. Can I get a good program for free?
There are plenty of free photo-editing programs. Not all will be suitable for you. If you're new to this, try a simple program like PhotoPlus. IrfanView is also easy. You can crop, add captions and convert photos to different formats, Read the rest of this entry »

The choice of photo organizing software is easier because the two most popular photo organizer software products are already free. Picasa from Google and Preclick Gold should be able to meet all of your digital photo organizing needs. There are a number of other free image organizers that also perform quite well.
The following are some of the most popular free photo software products available today. We will be adding many more exciting and useful Read the rest of this entry »

(and cheap PC-to-landline calls), it's yet another program to install, and yet another drain on my system's already strapped resources.
, which offers Skype-like calling capabilities but requires no special software. Instead, it works right inside your browser--any browser, on any system (Windows, Mac, or Linux).
All you need is a microphone (the one in your Webcam will do) and/or headset. You can make free calls to other Gizmo users, toll-free Read the rest of this entry »

December 20th, 2008
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A few Linux distributions emphasize license freedom as a goal, but Tom “Spot” Callaway
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Callaway, Fedora’s engineering manager, writes that “you’d need to do an incredibly thorough audit of every file in the system to be sure that every single file is under a known license,” and the evidence says that most distros haven’t actually done it.
When Read the rest of this entry »

Just in time for Christmas, EMSI Software has released "a-squared Free 4.0", a free tool designed to find and destroy viruses, Trojans, and spyware. Like the $39.90/year a-squared Anti-Malware 4.0, a-squared Free uses two separate scanning engines for comprehensive coverage of the malware spectrum.
"Four eyes are better than two. Better safe than sorry," said EMSI PR Manager Thomas Günther. "Two searchers will always find more than one. What more Read the rest of this entry »

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GNU guru Richard Stallman sent me an e-mail the other day complaining that we erred by saying that the Free Software Foundation, of which he's president, promotes open source software. "We have never supported the idea of 'open source' because that idea denies the importance of users' freedom," he writes. Read on for the dizzying semantics behind Richard's argument, and why I think his obsessive attempts at language control Read the rest of this entry »

Unison Technologies, a startup in the unified communications space, is now offering its software free of charge through a sponsor-supported model, a move it hopes will motivate SMBs to adopt the technology.
Unison's unified communications software, which includes a Linux server and Linux and Windows clients, wraps together a
system, e-mail server, instant messaging server, contacts and calendar functions.
Unified communications is steadily making Read the rest of this entry »