Going to a Mini PC
“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. Edward A. Murphy, Jr. A year ago, my then 3 year old HP Desktop decided to not come out of an update…
Free Notes / Journal / Task Manager
Zim Wiki is a cross platform program that serves a wide variety of purposes. From note taking to daily journal to task manager, Zim can handle all of those needs…
Free Task Manager Software
Nowadays, there are many To Do list or Task managers, quite a lot of them are online only, but, here we focus on some of the PC based ones. Here…
Microsoft Office: New Look
Microsoft is coming out with a new visual look for its Office suite in order to better blend in with Windows 11. The new look has been rolled out to…
Automating – Workflows
In an earlier blog, the script language AutoHotkey was used to demonstrate the storage of blocks of text. With AutoHotkey, by typing a few characters like btw, it is possible…
Automating – Quick Text Entry
There are quite a number of ways to save boilerplate text items so they can be quickly added to any program desired. With programs like AutoHotkey, FastFox, TextExpander and PhraseExpress,…
Is Free Software Any Good?
For many decades, computer software has been divided into two categories, paid and free. While it is still commonly accepted that free software or freeware is not very good, that…