The base WordPress is very functional on its own, but its extensibility is another great feature that can really help improve a blog's performance and make it your own. Below I've listed a number of the WordPress plug-ins that I use and would recommend. Each plug-in listed has a link to its homepage and a small blurb about it describing my experience with it. All are compatible … [Read more...]
UpDown: Free Online Stock Market Game
Check out a free online stock market game at UpDown. I have another article up over at Freewaregenius giving the inside scoop on this site and what a stock exchange simulator means. You can basically think of this as Fantasy football meets the stock market. You invest virtual money and make fictional trades to turn the virtual million dollars that you start off with … [Read more...]
StorYBook – A Free and Open-Source Tool for Organizing a Novel
Check out my latest article at the recently redesigned Freewaregenius.com on StorYBook. I'm actually quite excited to present this software because it was such a pleasant surprise to find cooler and cooler features unveil themselves the longer I used the application. One of the reasons I wanted to write this article on Freewaregenius was so that it would reach a larger … [Read more...]
Songbird: an Open-Source, Cross-Platform Music Player
Check out the latest article at FreewareGenius.com for my write-up on Songbird, an open-source music player. It's an iTunes rival and offers another option for organizing your media collection. In the article, I highlight a lot of the features, some plug-ins, and some comparisons between Songbird, iTunes, and MediaMonkey. Read up on Songbird: an Open-Source, Cross-Platform … [Read more...]
MonitorES – Monitor Energy Saver
MonitorES, or Monitor Energy Saver, is a little Google Code project that is so simple in its functionality it's hard to believe it's been overlooked for so long. If you're in a corporate or public environment with your computer, you probably lock your computer every time you get up and walk away from it. It might even automatically lock after being idle for so many minutes. If … [Read more...]