Ripbot264 Distributed Encoding HTPC Tips and Tweaks, Software Tips and Tweaks Add comments Aug062012 I’ve been using Ripbot264 to encode DVDs and, more recently, Blu-rays for a few years now. I won’t call myself an expert or anything, but I am well versed in it by now. Despite Ripbot’s progressions and increasing features, I’ve pretty much […]
Day: May 23, 2013
It’s back — and bigger and badder than ever! Our sixth annual Bossie Awards call out more than 100 open source products in seven categories Welcome to the sixth annual Best of Open Source Software Awards, otherwise known as the Bossies. If you’ve enjoyed our previous Bossies, you’re in for a treat: This year, with the help […]
InfoWorld’s top picks among open source games and geek time-wasters By InfoWorld staff, InfoWorld, September 18, 2012 Now for something completely different For the first time, we went in search of games, time-wasters, and hobby tools to celebrate. While the open source world clearly has more to offer the data center and office than the living […]
Would recovering 20-30% time in your day by spending less time on routine operations and break / fix activities interest you? Sure. Who wouldn’t be interested? The big question is how. While it’s an all too familiar story, businesses tell us that shifting resources from operations to innovation is still one of their biggest challenges. […]
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The secret to being productive
The business world is a hectic place. And people with larger workloads need to be busier to cope with the speed at which the world works – or do they? A number of studies have shown that being very busy doesn’t necessarily mean being more productive. Surprisingly, the most productive people are often more relaxed […]
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7 tips for better search results
Internet searches? Simple enough, right? Just type in the topic you’re interested in and instantly pages and pages of links appear. In this age of information, “enough” never seems to be the problem anymore. Rather, gathering information is a case of finding too much. So then, how can you arrive at a shorter, more relevant […]
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3 new tips for mastering Excel
Imagine you’re a sales manager for a large retail chain in Europe. Suddenly, your finance colleague has come down sick with the flu in the middle of the monthly sales reporting. Your boss needs the hard numbers on her desk by tomorrow morning and your colleague has left a mess of data for you to […]
The power of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software is now universally seen as a necessity for any organization or business. The features and benefits of these programs can lead directly to increased efficiency and profit. However, organizations in different industries have different requirements for ERP software, which can be difficult […]
InfoWorld’s top picks among many tools for building a network, running a network, and ensuring that the network is secure By InfoWorld staff, InfoWorld, September 18, 2012 The best open source networking and security software Few will be surprised at the wealth of open source networking and security tools available. But you might be surprised at […]
InfoWorld’s top picks among open source office apps, time-saving utilities, and other desktop productivity tools By InfoWorld staff, InfoWorld, September 18, 2012 The best open source desktop applications With so many free and amazingly capable open source desktop apps available, it’s a wonder anyone still pays for software. And with OpenOffice and LibreOffice now competing to […]
InfoWorld’s top picks in the ever-expanding universe of the back-end data store By InfoWorld staff, InfoWorld, September 18, 2012 The best open source databases Not so long ago, the world of open source databases could be summed up in one five-letter word: MySQL. But that was when we threw everything into a SQL database without giving […]
InfoWorld’s top picks in data center and cloud storage, virtualization, and cloud service management By InfoWorld staff, InfoWorld, September 18, 2012 The best open source data center and cloud software The data centers of tomorrow will be vastly more flexible and dynamic than the data centers of today, and these Bossie winners — some of the […]
InfoWorld’s top picks in editors, IDEs, frameworks, and other tools programmers use By InfoWorld staff, InfoWorld, September 18, 2012 The best open source application development tools That old debate — native app or Web? — has gathered new steam in the wake of the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Then again, maybe not, thanks to a […]