This is the first in a series of articles focusing on trying to get by with a little less.

In a time flush with horror stories of job loss and debt it would be ridiculous to think that if something breaks or is a bit old we would just mindlessly push off to buy another one. Computers are expensive, software products shouldn’t be disposable, neither should technology. Its with all of this in mind that we start a new series of articles here at the podcast aiming on getting by with less funding. Please feel free to submit your questions or comments either on this article or by clicking the email button on the page and asking a question.

If you are running a PC you NEED antivirus, but the yearly licensing for most AV programs is enough to make me stutter, fifty dollars a year? I understand that there are costs involved in owning any computer and that no machine should ever be without an AV solution. So what to Do? Enter two quick and simple software packages that do the job. Read the rest of this entry »

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Slightly different format tonight. A bit of a free flowing episode with a bit of news and then a ton of software to help you be more productive in your use of a computer.  This isn’t going to be the norm for episodes from here on out but every once in a while it helps to share some of the tools that I use on a daily basis.

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Software: Free and Better than Free

• Firefox: Why are you not using this yet?
  • Foxmarks: Bookmark synchronization plugin
    
  • FireFTP: Lightweight FTP application which lives in your browser
    
• Evernote: Note taking and reference software. Once you start to use it you can easily see how it can be of great use in the future
  
• Picasa: Photo editing and album management software
• VLC: Media File Player
  
• Google Services: Get an account with google, even if you don’t use it for email. Its worth it just to have for the other programs they run.
• NVU: Lightwieght HTML and Web site editor
  
• Irfanview: Any image anywhere this program can open. Make sure to get both the program and the plugin pack
  
• OpenOffice: Office and productivity application
  
• Audacity:Audio editing utility

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