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Personal Finance Management with MMEX
Money Manager Ex is a free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one’s finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes.
Money Manager includes all the basic features that 90% of users would want to see in a personal finance application.
The complete feature list is available here.
I have [...]
Secure your passwords using KeePass
KeePass is one of the most popular password stores. I had covered another utility called Password Safe earlier.
You can use it to store all your passwords securely in an encrypted database. All you need to remember is the password you’ve assigned to KeePass.
KeePass is available on several platforms – Windows, Linux, Mac and several other [...]
Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
This is Part 2 in the series on browser shortcut keys. Part 1 covered Internet Explorer.
The shortcuts below have been referenced from The Mozilla Support website and is specific to Windows. You can visit the same page for keyboard shortcuts for Linux and Mac.
Firefox 3.0.5 released. Supports Bengali and Hindi
Firefox 3.0.5 has been released and it officially introduces support for two Indian languages – Bengali and Hindi, besides several other international languages.
The release also has several bug fixes. Also, the End-User License Agreement has been replaced with a new “Know Your Rights” [...]
A DVD Ripper called HandBrake
HandBrake is an open-source GPLed, cross-platform DVD to MPEG-4 converter.
HandBrake is available on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It supports DVDs, VOBs and some .TS files. The output format ranges from MP4, MKV, AVI to OGM.
As HandBrake is an open-source application, you have full access to its source code. As a developer, you can [...]
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 available for download
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is available for download.
Firefox 3.1 will be introducing several new features:
The Private Browsing Feature (aka ‘Porn Mode’) is something that most blogs have covered in great detail!
Enhanced UI features like tear-away tabs that can be dragged and dropped from one Firefox window to another
Improved features for Web Developers, like TraceMonkey, web [...]
Firefox 2.0.0.19 to be the last security update for Firefox 2
Firefox 2.0.0.19 is slated to be released on December 16, and is believed to be the last security update for Firefox 2. [via Computer World]
In this version, the anti-phishing feature is being removed. This is on the recommendation of Google because Firefox 2 uses a now obsolete protocol of Safe Browsing. Firefox 3 is using [...]
Gmail on your desktop
The Google Gadget for Gmail enables you to have Gmail running in your Windows sidebar.
You need to have Google Desktop 5 installed for this to work.
Not only can you read your emails, but you can do most of the Gmail operations — Compose, Forward, Reply, Mark as Spam, etc.
Google Desktop is available on Windows, Linux, [...]
Firefox 3.0.4 released
Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.4 today. This version incorporates several bug fixes.
You can visit the What’s New page to get a complete list of fixes done in this release.
Download Firefox.
Go-OO: An alternative to an alternative!
We all came to know OpenOffice as a great alternative to Microsoft Office. An alternative that not only matched it feature to feature reasonably well but was completely free.
There is an alternative to this alternative! Go-OO is a fork from OpenOffice that strives to reduce the bulkiness of OpenOffice. It has a UI that is [...]
