How Do You Keep Your Passwords Safe?

How many passwords do you have to remember? How do you remember your passwords? Do you use the same password for all your accounts?

We have lots of passwords to remember: our personal emails, our Facebook accounts, twitter accounts, our work email accounts, some FTP accounts and much more.  We all know we should use different passwords for each account because if we use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password we have  a serious problem. Still we have hard times trying to remember what password we used on which website or for which account. Continue reading How Do You Keep Your Passwords Safe?

FREE Useful Software for Small Businesses

In their daily operations small businesses use a variety of software applications. Text editors, spreadsheets, presentations, email, anti-virus, accounting software, Customer Relationship Management, collaboration tools and development tools are mainly used and buying all those tools can be quite expensive for small businesses. In this article I will list some good and free useful software applications that you can use as alternatives for other expensive software utilities.

You will find here a collection of free software tools from different software categories. Continue reading FREE Useful Software for Small Businesses

Portable Applications

PortableAppsPortable applications are applications that can be ran on USB flash disk without the need to install them on your PC. Generally the data is stored with those applications on the USB flash disk and your data is accessible on any PC without the need of any software installation. This kind of applications will help you also keep your Notebook at home. You will carry with you the web browser with your favorite bookmarks, your calendar with all your appointments and your mail client with all your received emails. There are portable applications for lots of software categories.

There are many software suites but I am going to write about PortableApps.com a free and open source portable apps platform.

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Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox is an Open Source free Internet Browser. It is the second most used Web Browser according to NetApplications. It was released in 2004 by the Mozilla Corporation. It is a very rich and secure web browser and its engine (Gecko) implements most current web browsers.

Firefox includes tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing and many other features.

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157 Free Software Tools For Your Daily Needs

You will find in this post a collection of 157 free software tools from difference software categories. No fees. No expiration dates. No problems. Sometimes even no downloads.

If you need the URL of any website and you couldn’t find it don’t hesitate to contact me by email and I’ll send you the URL.

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What is Open Source?

Open source is a development methodology, which offers practical accessibility to a product’s source (goods and knowledge). The term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet, which provided access to diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.

Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.

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