May 21, 2009

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: My Life.

Another great day off.

Today I spent most of my time working on the toy castle website. It is coming along. I finially have my game plan to start adding in specials. After this section is added in, next we will start on the “my account” section. Then the next project is to come up with the footer that is controlled dynmically. Then we are off to the races. That will pretty much finish up the project. I hope to have it done by the end of the month which means I really have to get cooking.

The pictures of today is Brett just wanting to be lovable. We are actually fighting in the chair over him being a momma’s boy or a daddy’s boy. He says he’s a momma’s boy but I’ll change that.

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Best Free Software I Use Everyday

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Technically Speaking.

Here are some of the best free software and web applications that many people don’t know about.

  1. dropbox - Remember those days when you use to stick things are a USB jumpdrive. I once had a 2 gig jumpdrive. How archaic is that? Just create an account, download the software on any computer you want, then just drag and drop things into this folder and it loads it on to your highly secured web account and loads it on all the other computers you installed your dropbox on. No more jumpdrives (except maybe those really really large files)!
  2. Google Docs - This has Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint all online for you. So you can open up a new word document through this site, type, edit, save, and print then open it back up at your work and continue there. Okay, it doesn’t look just like the Microsoft office suite, but it’s close enough. But all your files are online safely on your account so you can access them anywhere. And share a doc with a few more people and all of you can access the files and edit them together.
  3. Google Calendar - Rachel has her own calendar. I have mine. But we sync them together so I don’t plan anything that conflicts with anything else.
  4. AVG - The best antivirus software is actually free.
  5. OpenOffice - Its like Microsoft Home Office 2003, but its totally free and legal. This is for those who don’t want to get on the internet to use Google docs and who don’t want to spend the $150 buying Microsoft.
  6. Google Reader - This is a one stop shop for all my webpages. I started an account, linked all my favorite websites I go to and it pulls all the new information they put on their website. Then I just go to my google reader and check all my websites at once. It even lets me save their content so I can easily archive an article that they wrote. I have put the Faith community blog in my reader so that I don’t have to keep checking the website to monitor it. Very handy.

What is your favorite free software or web application?

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