The Current Essential Apps List

You can find more Essential Apps at the Essential Apps page (which was added at some point after this post was created).

Due to my adventurous nature (along with hardware failures, indecision and general turmoil) I’ve had the opportunity to load some Microsoft OS’s over a dozen times in the past month on my own

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Facelift and Tools

It has been several years since my “main” site and two blogs all had a common look & feel. Far too long, but I’m sure you all know how priorities can vary from year to year. That partially explains why posts have been scarce here the past week. I’m finally working on a redesign.

At the

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Paint.NET 3.08 Beta Released

Paint.NET v3.08 beta was announced today. In general, this is mostly a maintenance or bug-fix release. I’m very happy to say that one bug that was driving me nuts has been resolved:

Fixed: Pasting an image from Office 2003 applications now works (e.g. Excel 2003 graphs).

The funny thing is, I didn’t even know

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Online Photoshop?

What do you make of this news.com.com article?

Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday.

I use Paint.Net for just about everything and The Gimp when I need a bit more

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