I was looking around for an alternative for Outlook as my email and information client, and happened upon a version of Evolution compiled for windows. Google doesn’t specifically show how to configure Evolution, so I decided to look for examples myself. When I was looking around for information on how to configure it for pop […]

Mozilla Lightning is a calendar add-on for the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail application. Mozilla Lightning, more accurately, is an integration of Mozilla Sunbird, a stand-alone calendar, and the Thunderbird e-mail application. The integration of the calendar makes Thunderbird into more of a PIM(Personal Information Manager) than a standard e-mail application.
Lightning offers the usual assortment of features […]

IPCop is a Linux distribution that is designed with the specific purpose of acting as a firewall/gateway to improve your security. It is loaded with features to accomplish this, yet IPCop does this in as straight forward a way as I can imagine. OK, now what the heck can you do with this you may […]

Google’s latest offering, Google Gears, is making quite the buzz, and deservedly so. Much of the talk is centered around the technology itself. Google Gears is an open sourced framework for creating off-line web applications. Basically, it is a plug-in to web browsers which will allow the sharing and storing of local and remote data. […]

Mozilla is funding Democracy Player to the tune of $100,000. This is a nice boost for the open source streaming media player.
Democracy Player, soon to be “Miro”, is a media player with many uses. It plays many file types, allows you to subscribe to an play video blog and podcasts, supports downloading and storing videos […]

Sun software has announced that it will be releasing two of its Java implementations into the open source realm, the Java SE (JDK) and Java ME. Java SE is the version on which your typical desktop Java application runs, and the Java ME is the Micro Edition which is typically run on smaller systems, such […]

When it comes to word processors, users have a variety to chose from. From the ever popular commercial Microsoft Word, to the open-source and free OpenOffice.org Writer. There is another option in the open-source and free realm, AbiWord.
AbiWord is a available for a large number of operating systems including Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD and Solaris. […]