Latest Common Applications, Tools And Utilities

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May 102012
 
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Great News LibreOffice has a new release…….:)

This is a list of the latest common applications, tools and utilities most widely used. The latest version will be highlighted in RED.

The programs, tools or utilities below are either freeware, open source and some have commercial features that can be purchased i.e Skype and iTunes.

Web Browsers:

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Chat:

  • Skype: Install Skype, add your friends as contacts, then call, video call and instant message with them for free. Call people who aren’t on Skype too, at really low rates……..Latest Version 5.9.0.115
  • Yahoo! Messenger: Yahoo Messenger has come a long way with the latest updates. Yahoo has started to listen to the community and implemented some great new features…… Latest Version 11.5.0.192

Messaging:

  • IncrediMail: IncrediMail is a free email software that allows you to enjoy a fun and exciting email application offering new ways to compose, send and receive email. …Latest Version 5175

Image Editors:

  • Picasa: Google’s powerful Picasa is a software that allows you to edit, organise and share your photos on the internet…… Latest Version 3.9 Build 135.93
  • Paint.NET: Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. Don’t underestimate this little germ. Even though it is very small in size it still has some very powerful features that will impress you…….Latest Version 3.5.10
  • The Gimp: GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Like the above software is even more powerful. You could say it is a rivalry to photoshop but with NO price tag. Yes that is correct it is an open source software maintaing by a great community that releases updates on a regular basis. You will be impressed once you get around the understanding of where all the tools are. You will get to love this great FREE software. Gimp is used for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. …Latest Version Gimp 2.8 ……have a look at what’s new in Gimp 2.8  check out my gimp tutorial

Media Players:

  • VLC Media Player: VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols…….Latest Version 2.0.1
  • iTunes: iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV….Latest Version 10.6

Office Package:

  • LibraOffice: LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base……..Latest Version LibreOffice 3.5.3 Have a look at what’s new in this release LibreOffice 3.5.3 features.

Cleaning:

  • Ccleaner: CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download……Latest Version 3.18.1707

If you have any request and or want me to add some tool, programs or software let me know. Keep coming back as this list will be maintained and more will be added.

Enjoy!!!

 

Suffusion Theme Displaying Problem

 suffusion, themes, troubleshooting, Wordpress  No Responses »
Dec 202011
 
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If you have installed the new Suffusion Theme 3.9.5 and are having problems displaying all the pages when you are viewing the website through the browser then follow these simple instructions.

What happened to me was the following, I updated the theme and I was very happy with the results but when I went to view the website it look great on the FrontPage but when I clicked on an earlier post it showed my old theme. I was baffled by this although I had my suspicions that it had to do with the cache :)

The first thing to do is delete the cache from the browser and if you are using many browsers then delete the cache from all the browsers. Install or activate your theme and see if this works.

If the above does not work which is what happened to me then do the following to troubleshoot the problem.

  1. If you have a cache plugin in my case WP Super Cache then disable the plugin. You might have a different cache plugin installed.
  2. Install your theme or if you have already installed the theme then activate it.
  3. Check to see if the problem is resolved and if it is then enable your cache plugin again.

The above steps should fix the problem that you might be experiencing with Suffusion Theme. These steps only apply locally, these steps do not apply to the server’s cache.

If you have any questions just leave a comment here and I will try to help you.

 

Can only edit an article once in Joomla 1.7 and WordPress 3.2.1

 Browsers, joomla 1.7, windows 7, Wordpress  No Responses »
Oct 042011
 
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I have had this problem and many have also reported this issue with Joomla 1.6, 1.7 and even with WordPress. It appears that when you try to edit an article and in some cases a menu or a post in WordPress your browsers sits and does nothing and the only way out of this is by refreshing your browser. I spent many days trying to work out this issue, which it just seem to appear out of the blue :( I call this a gremlin which seems to appear when you less expected :)

The following is what I did to work out this issue.

  1. I started to uninstall many programs
  2. I unistall chrome and revert back to an early version of Firefox 6.0.2
  3. Tested the connection on a adsl broadband and it worked fine after I created another account and deleted my old profile.
  4. Tested the connection on wireless broadband and again the issue continued
  5. Uninstall bigponds connection manager. Downloaded the latest version from the internet and installed it.
  6. Tested saving a post in WordPress and the same issue continued.
  7. Change the settings in Firefox proxy and cache and still the same issue.
  8. Tested IE, Chrome, Firefox and SeaMonkey and still the same issue.
  9. Finally I read an article on the Microsoft forum that people using Windows 7 with SP1 installed had issues with the browsers. So I decided to uninstall SP1 and voila the problem is gone for now. I have run many test and so far it seems to be working fine.

I will keep you all posted if there are any changes. So far so good :)

Latest update:

Hello I am back with some more testing, please be aware that this might not resolve your problem. After testing all of the above, it was working well without a problem. Then I was asked to update the flash plugin in Firefox and so I did.

  • The plugin that I had installed was Flash Player 10.3.183.10 none (IE)
  • Then I updated it to the latest version Flash Player 11.0.1.152 none (IE)

So I started testing and found that the issue came back. It kind of made sense to me, so I uninstalled Flash Player 11.0.1.152 none (IE) and reinstalled Flash Player 10.3.183.10 none (IE) and did some testing. This worked for me but I will keep on testing.

I hope this helps everyone here regardless whether they are using a Mac, Windows or Linux.

Kind regards

These are my specifications:

  • Lenovo T61 laptop
  • Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Intel Core 2 Duo cpu T7300@ 2.00ghz
  • 3 Gigs of ram
  • 120 g hard disk

Browsers “The latest version for all browsers below except IE”

  • IE
  • Firefox
  • SeaMonkey
  • Chrome

I hope the above works for you. I have not done any testing on linux or mac. If you have any question just leave a comment here.

Kind regards