Joomla! CMS is the 2nd most popular content management system powering the internet according to some statistics, WordPress being the most popular, and Drupal the third. Like both competitors it is open source, PHP based, and requires a server (e.g. Apache), MySQL or MariaDB database, PHP and Perl. And similar to both it can be…
Read More Joomla! content management systemCutePDF is a Acrobat PDF ‘printer’ for Windows. After a simple he free version works very well, printing from Office programs, web browsers or other software. Although current versions of Windows and MS Office often already include the ability to save files to PDF, results are not always optimal, and this is not always the…
Read More CutePDF Acrobat PDF file printer7-zip is an open source cross platform compression and archiving utility available for Windows, Linux, and there are also Android implementations. It can be set to use different compression algorithms creating e.g. zip or 7z files. It will recursively zip whole subdirectory trees and thus create single file archives. 7-zip is included in the repositories…
Read More 7-zip compression and archivingWeather Underground is one of the international providers of worldwide weather information. And almost all the weather information they provide does apply to the weather as we experience it ‘above ground’. No clue why they call themselves ‘underground’, other than that they also provide some information on earthquakes. There are various apps for mobile phones…
Read More Weather UndergroundBuienradar NL is a Netherlands weather service which also provides good data on European and global weather. In addition their site has a nice collection of weather photos. Besides offering apps for Windows, iOS and for mobile phones, they provide free widgets (see the menu item ‘Buienradar op jouw website’ at their page footer) that…
Read More Buienradar NLHetWeer.NL is another Netherlands weather site providing weather information, weather photos, and widgets for your website (‘gadgets voor je website’) such as: meer weer More information: http://www.hetweer.nl/
Read More Het Weer NLDrupal content management system is the third most popular content management system driving the Internet. It is considered to be technically the most brilliant but that is mostly due to behind the scenes technology. It is also considered to have enterprise level security. Under the Obama administration it was selected to power the White House…
Read More Drupal content management systemMozilla Firefox is an excellent cross-platform browser available for Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. It is open source and can be expanded with a lot of plug ins, many of which are free. In fact it could be seen as an operating system within an operating system. And it is not tied to a large…
Read More Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkeyMediaWiki is probably best known through it’s use as software driving WikiPedia, the on line, collaborative ‘encyclopedia’. It is in fact a content management system, but focused very much on knowledge content and interlinking between bits of knowledge and less on flashy presentation with lots of images. There are various other implementation of the concepts…
Read More MediaWiki, DocuWiki and WikiPediaAlthough I don’t really understand why people might not want to try a user friendly Linux distribution, such as XUbuntu, LUbuntu, KUbuntu, Mint or Ubuntu on their own computer, the reality probably is that some people simply want to stick with Windows, share their computer with others within the same household and the partner may…
Read More XAMPP or WAMPServer, complete server stacks for Windows