While we were looking for a network storage solution for our organization we found quite a few open-source and proprietary options available. One of the more interesting open-source solutions was FreeNAS. FreeNAS is very well featured, quite well developed and completely free. Below is a partial feature list for FreeNAS: Built upon FreeBSD 6 Configured [...]

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I am always on the lookout for applications that are actually useful for mobile phones. There are a lot of mobile apps out there but few that are actually something that the average person would use. Now a free mapping tool – now that is a winner!! Last night I downloaded google maps (which is [...]

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We have been looking around at different options to help us collaboratively develop some of our software projects. We have been working on a few projects including a Content Management System (CMS) and a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution for our organization. I have actually been really curious about solutions to help us to do [...]

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I just received a bit of a panic phone call from our database administrator as Goldmine would no longer open. While he was performing the Goldmine database maintenance his workstation died (something else to fix later I guess). When he tried to log in again to Goldmine he came up with this error: Goldmine Error: [...]

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activeCollab is a free group project management program that is very similar to 37Signals project management tool called Basecamp. I’ve checked out their web-site and it looks like a pretty decent tool. activeCollab is a solution that is designed to be hosted on a local or hosted LAMPP server. This should be a very attractive [...]

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For a very basic, but quick to download and also free (to non-commercial users) I use Irfanview. Like I say quite basic but can be used in Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003. Very quick to download so if you need a viewer when away from home this is a good one to download. [...]

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