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January 28, 2005
Open Source Apps on My Windows PC
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I've just noticed how much open-source software I am now using on my Windows XP machine. I use Firefox for browsing almost exclusively. I do use IE primarily because I have its cookies set differently than I do in Firefox - so, for example, between IE and Firefox I can easily log into two different Yahoo! Mail accounts. But if there was an extension that allowed you to manage and quickly switch between different Yahoo! Mail accounts, I won't need IE for this... a quick account switching extension for Yahoo! Mail... that'd be cool he dreams.
But back to the point. Firefox for browsing and Filezilla for FTP (so much better than FTP Voyager which I had purchased previously). I use VirtualDub for video format conversion and resizing. Just check out the OpenCD Project for other open-source applications of note. Heck, I'm using MovableType like a word processor to create this blog.
I use NASA's World Wind program to download LandStat maps of the world, satellite images, weather data. I don't know if the application is open source, but the data is open to the world. Neat.
Even more interesting is that I use open source on top of open source. What do I mean? Well, I use an extension called Spellbound in Firefox to check spelling when posting in MovableType. When I was using TypePad, I also used Spellbound instead of the default TypePad spell checker. Spellbound is a much richer spell checker, since it lets you store custom words like "Google" and "Bay." Words I'm using all the time.
Just noticing all of these cool applications that have snuck onto my PC over the past seven years or so... but really in the past three or four years. All brought to you by the Internet. Just think what is to come. I'm sure Microsoft is thinking about that.
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Yahoo! account switching - I like it! And shouldn't be too difficult theoretically. It would just have to swap out the cookies as you switch accounts and refresh the page you're on. Hmmm...i'll have to look into that.
Posted by: Jeff at January 31, 2005 10:25 AM
Hi I got to your entry here as I was browsing the net for Open Source Applications. You might be interested in a few more open source applications. I am trying to bring all of them together at my blog. Let me know if I have missed any from there.
Cheers
-Dey
http://open-source.onestop.net
Posted by: J Dey at February 2, 2005 01:51 AM