Andy Kemp

Since I have been using open source on my personal laptop I found myself using CDBurnerXP more and more to burn my CD's and DVD's. I was using the software that came pre-installed (Sonic) but I found that this neat tool was better, and didn't crash as much as Sonic did. The software can be downloaded from: http://cdburnerxp.se and it is only a 3mb install file, so it is quite a small utility too. The beauty of it is that you can create as well as burn ISO images, convert nrg and bin files and do much more. I would...

As mentioned in one of my previous posts I am quite keen on open source software. I have started using GIMP and paint.net for editing pictures and photos. I am using Zimbra Desktop on one PC and Thunderbird on another. I also find myself using Firefox more now too. Microsoft do offer some free apps but if you are needing to do some actual work then you will need to pay quite often through the roof for their products (but again I would be out of a job if it wasn't for Microsoft!) To be honest all the integration...

 I recently downloaded a copy of GIMP from www.opensourcewindows.org as I was just curious into what software is out there, and looking to see if I could run with a laptop/computer with complete open source software on it. In short I think that I could, if it is just for day to day stuff like email, word, Internet I think that I could quite comfortably use Open Source products. For my testing/looking into Open Source I used a Windows XP laptop with only the bare minimum MS products installed. I mean don't get me wrong I would be out...