Techno Babble

I’m writing this using Windows Live Writer which I’ve just downloaded. This is one of the applications which is part of the Windows Live series and is available, at the time of writing, from

http://get.live.com/

Other items include:

• Hotmail: Stay connected anywhere with your Web e-mail account
• Mail: Access your multiple e-mail accounts in one place
• Messenger: Connect, share, and make your conversations count
• Toolbar: Easy access to Windows Live services from any Web page
• Spaces: The best place to share your world online
• Photo Gallery: Get creative and share your photos and videos
• Events: Plan your event. Send invitations. Share photos.
• OneCare Family Safety: Help protect your family and computer

So far so good, although I would like to see an auto-save feature; it may already be included, I just haven’t found it yet.

Installation was relatively straightforward, although it did seem to take long time to complete.

In addition to Live Writer, I also installed Live Mail - which is a client email application and Photo Gallery - equivalent to Picasa from Google.

VectorMagic is an online tool from Stanford University, for converting bitmap images to vector art images.

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

Upload an image, follow the simple instructions and the vector representation of your image will be created for you.

The system currently supports JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIFF formats for input and will produce EPS, SVG and PNG files as output.

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Terminal Emulator, PuTTY is

a free software SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP client. It was originally available only for Windows, but is now also available on various Unix platforms, with work-in-progress ports to Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X. Other people have contributed unofficial ports to other platforms, such as Symbian powered mobile phones. It is beta software written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham, and is open source, licensed under the MIT License.

courtesy of wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY

Check out the PuTTY home page at:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/