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Potentially useful software

7 December 2008

AdesClrPicker – capture colour codes from anywhere on your screen. Extremely useful for those times you find the perfect colour in another application or image and want to transfer it to your web design or such.
Link Popularity Check – lets you check your own website’s link [...]

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Norton Internet Security 2009 Not a RAM Pig?

11 November 2008

Nope, it ain’t, and that there were many claims that NIS 2009 was not as resource intensive as previous versions was the only reason I gave it a try.
NIS 2008 nearly crashed my system, and many previous versions of Norton AntiVirus actually have crashed my systems. [...]

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Software Piracy in Sri Lanka

4 July 2008

In a previous post, I talked a bit about piracy and copyright violations in Sri Lanka and I mentioned it’s a widespread problem here. But here’s the thing. I can’t say that I entirely blame Sri Lankans for the problems if you understand it in context.
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AVG 8.0

27 May 2008

It ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
First, there’s the increased RAM footprint, close to double from AVG 7.5. Translation? Before, when AVG 7.5 ran system scans, I could still use my computer to do other tasks, albeit slowly and with much patience on my part. [...]

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Writing Software

25 February 2008

Since my husband, Fahim, is a programmer as well as a writer, he writes software for me. I use the following:
PlotCraft – keeps track of all the story ideas you get. Free.
WriteTrack – submission tracking software.  Free.
Amanuensis [...]

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Collaborative Writing Tools

30 December 2007

I did a lot of collaborative writing this past year with my husband, Fahim, including freelance writing work and editing for a magazine, and here are two of the tools we found exceptionally helpful.

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Buh-bye, Avast!

19 December 2007

So, remember how I installed Avast! antivirus software a few days ago? I’m ditching it. I’m returning to AVG Free.
Why, you ask, am I mimicking Fahim’s ongoing (yes, yes, still ongoing) juggling of anti-virus software? I’m not, exactly – I’m returning to what is, for me, tried [...]

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On the nature of viruses and anti-virus software

15 December 2007

In yesterday’s post, I talked about my latest adventure with three different anti-virus solutions. I mentioned that Avast caught a virus that neither AVG nor NIS 2008 did. Does this, in and of itself, mean that Avast is better at catching viruses than either AVG or NIS 2008? No, it doesn’t.
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Anti-Virus Software

14 December 2007

Fahim is constantly trying out different software. The last couple or so weeks, he’s been on an anti-virus/firewall binge. He uninstalled whatever he was using at the time, installed a new one. Tried that for a day or three, found something he didn’t like, uninstalled that one, installed a new one. [...]

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More Writing Tools

11 December 2007

Fahim’s finished setting up his Writing Resources page, so it’s now much easier to see all of his writing-related software in one place. One lovely addition is his MicroSoft Word macro.
Long story short, this macro can be used to find "adverbs, passive words, overly used words and [...]

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