Buienradar 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 WindowsGimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, started out under the Unix derivatives as an excellent, open-source and free, program for similarly working with graphical media (drawing, painting, cropping, adjusting colors, etc). It is included in the repositories for all major Linux distributions. Gimp is also available for Windows. So if you want to do some…
Read More Gimp image manipulation programUbuntu Linux remains one of the most widely used Linux distributions. Various projects have branched off of Ubuntu, including KUbuntu, LUbuntu and XUbuntu, Linux Mint, EduBuntu and Mythbuntu, differing mainly in either the windows manager (GNome for Ubuntu, LDE for LUbuntu, KDE for KUbuntu, and XFce for XUbuntu, Cinnamon or Mate with Mint) or their…
Read More Ubuntu Linux and related distributions such as XUbuntuThe renewed website of Perspektivo website is online. After 1 years of dependable service it was time to upgrade the software again. In particular a clearer distinction has been introduced between Perspektivo and Perspektivo-Aerfoto. The new software provides more capabilities for Perspektivo. For example it will be possible to offer e-learning modules, but also to…
Read More Revamped Perspektivo Site Online / Vernieuwde Perspektivo Site OnlineNederlands Het finaliseren van de vernieuwde website is vandaag ernstig vertraagd. Het LCD scherm van mijn nog geen half jaar oude Acer Aspire begaf het vanochtend plotseling. Gewoon zwart. De computer zelf doet het prima, maar alleen met een externe monitor. De Acer service blijkt bij een apparaat dat nog ruim binnen garantie valt totaal…
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