MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'free software'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2939589&cid=t_101107_180_f&fid=38610&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.productivity501.com%2Ffree-word-processors%2F5578%2F AbiWord This word processor was developed by SourceGear Corporation as an alternative to other office software. However, SourceGear stopped developing the software, and a group of open source developers took over creating the later versions of the product. AbiWord is unique in that it can be run on a myriad of different operating systems: Microsoft Windows Mac OS X (10.2 or later, Intel and PowerPC) Linux React OS BeOS Solaris etc. System requirements for AbiWord seem to be pretty reasonable, overall, and it seems to work much like its non-open source counterparts. One final, useful thing about AbiWord is that the developers offer real time support through chat and also provide a user manual. Bean In today’s fast-paced world, the technology and software that we use has become  a ... Productivity501 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2939589 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:00:33 +0100 2939589 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1980616&cid=t_101107_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2FmvfHP4LUNLk%2F In this second (maybe third) post on why I think Open Science/Research won’t work, at least for now, I’ll try to tell a story of something that happened in the (argh!) blogosphere. This is a real story but I will leave the real names out of it. It all started in on prominent blog of a prominent Open Scientist/Researcher. S/he used to write about papers, data, grants and small problems s/he would encounter along the way. People would pitch in, give some advice, and life and research would go on its natural path. Open Science/Research was working great!! and everyone was benefiting from it. And the sky was blue and birds were singing. One day he or she comes with a software problem. Someone in the lab was writing a piece of code in some prominent computer language and there was a... Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1980616 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:24:03 +0100 1980616 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1522081&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fmozilla-firefox-3-final-release.html The new Firefox 3 web browser is to be released on the official Mozilla Download Day, Tuesday, June 17, 2008. An informative article about this release and Microsoft’s rapid effort to catch-up using IE-8 was recently published by PC World. I strongly suggest that you download Firefox 3 directly from a Mozilla site. As I write, this site is still devoted to the download of Firefox 2.0.0.14, however.The good people on the Firefox 3 project are trying to set a Guinness World Record for downloading software in a single day. My best guess is that they will achieve this, because there is currently no such record in existence.More importantly, I recently tried to download Release Candidate 3 of Firefox from other sites, and while beginning to install, they displayed instructions in a language ... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1522081 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:05:00 +0100 1522081 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=933174&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F10%2Fhave-you-noticed.html Have you noticed a recent confusion within Microsoft about the design and marketing of its software? I think I am seeing one but I am not an expert.Vista sales and installations have not been going as well as Microsoft had hoped when this operating system was introduced approximately one year ago. Some businesses have been reluctant to adopt it due to incompatibilities with other companies' software and due to some of its own internal instabilities. See this Google search which returns 51,200,000 responses to the search phrase - Vista problems. A Service Pack for Vista is already due out soon, according to many sources listed in the second link. Vista seems to be somewhat "heavy" for home computers and is not as willingly accepted as was XP, especially because the really neat features are ... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=933174 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:57:00 +0100 933174 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=896035&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fkeyloggers-and-viri-and-rootkits-oh-my.html In the last post, I ranted about rootkits being planted in consumers’ computers without their knowledge by unscrupulous corporations or by hackers with even less honorable motives. I vented my displeasure with a corporation but did not give any information about what one can do about a rootkit. To remedy that oversight I embarked on a quest for some free software that will detect their presence. I shall try to rectify the omission in this episode.It has been written that rootkits and keyloggers hide quite well in the deep recesses of your computer’s innards, often to the degree that excellent commercial software cannot find them. I found two anti-rootkit applications and one keylogger sniffer.AVG, an excellent commercial security software company, offers three security software applica... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=896035 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:56:00 +0100 896035 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811742&cid=t_101107_113_f&fid=38059&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchirad-at.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fportable-apps.html The PortableApps.com Suite™ looks good >>>. It is "a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, ... all preconfigured to work portably". It has several versions, and can be installed to portables devices (such as USB/flash drives): * Base: 0.7MB (download), 1MB (installed) * Lite: 30.4MB (download), ~105MB (installed) * Standard: 89.5MB (download), ~260MB (installed)And it is all under Free / Open Source (Mozilla apps: MPL, Others: GPL) Licenses.We'll post a review here when we've played with it a bit. (Source: The CHIRAD blog) The CHIRAD blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811742 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:53:00 +0100 1811742 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=838792&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fnanoscan-and-totalscan.html There are a few good, free, web based applications out there amidst all the crapware. I used Panda Software's computer-based anti-virus program for a year some while back and found it to be satisfactory. Not perfect, but good. That was at a time when many of the viruses, trojans, and worms were coming from the area of the world in which Panda Software is located. My assumption at the time was that they would therefore be the first AV company to encounter many of the new threats "in the wild" and the first to develop new countermeasures. It seemed to be a good assumption. The only drawbacks I encountered at that time were a somewhat unappealing user interface and a very aggressive advertising program. Panda was one of the "other good commercial AV programs" to which I referred in a previous... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=838792 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:42:00 +0100 838792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=770612&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fsecurity-software.html Most mental health professionals would agree that we have a duty to keep confidential our clients’ PHI. This seems especially true if we keep that information on computers that can be lost, hacked, or subject to viruses of all kinds.I recently had, and am continuing to have, an experience of possible identity theft. I did nothing to cause it or to leave myself open to that attack. Stupid things happen. A portable drive with a database of providers was lost or stolen. The VHA wrote to notify me and to offer a year of free credit monitoring and fraud alerts. As most of my personal information including SSN, EIN, name, address, and all the rest was on it, I accepted their offer quickly. My suspicion is that a less experienced employee or an intern copied it to a thumb drive to work on at ho... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=770612 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:11:00 +0100 770612 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811745&cid=t_101107_113_f&fid=38059&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchirad-at.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fimia-oswg-meeting-at-medinfo2007.html The 2007 business meeting of the IMIA Open Source Working Group ( >>>) will take place as follows:Sunday, 19 August 2007, from 5:30 - 7:30pmVenue: Room P3, Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia (in conjunction with medinfo2007) Agenda to be advised later.Apologies to colleagues who won't be at medinfo2007.All queries to imia.oswg[at]gmail.com (Source: The CHIRAD blog) The CHIRAD blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811745 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:10:00 +0100 1811745 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811746&cid=t_101107_113_f&fid=38059&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchirad-at.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fsixth-linuxmednews-award-nominations.html As reported by Ignacio Valdes on Linux Medical News (www.linuxmednews.com/1185396012/index_html), nominations are officially open for the 6th annual Linux Medical News Freedom Award. Deadline for nominations is August 24th, 2007 and the Award will be presented at the November 10th-14th AMIA Fall conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Deadline for entries is August 24th, 2007. [This is NOT an officially sponsored award or event of AMIA.]This award is co-sponsored by the IMIA Open Source Working Group. This award is intended to honor the individual or project who has accomplished the most towards the goal of improving medical education and practice through free/open source medical software. The award winner is chosen by a panel of judges.Full details are... The CHIRAD blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811746 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:02:00 +0100 1811746 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=751682&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fevernote-21-update.html EverNote®2 is offering a free, updated version of their remarkably versatile and useful note and web information collection program. It is version 2.1.0.327 which employs a new database. If you update from a previous version, your content will be saved and updated to conform to the current database engine, but it will no longer be useable with prior versions. The commercial versions of this software offer extensive additions to the basic free version. Web clips, graphics, e-mail, notes, handwriting, snapshots, sketches, and much more may all be recorded, many on either free or commercial versions. It is simply remarkable that so much versatility is offered in their free version. It is definitely worth a trip to the download section of the EverNote Website to compare versions and download ... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=751682 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:53:00 +0100 751682 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=740450&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fmedilexicon-toolbar-update.html As I age, I wander the Internet more and tend to take paths wherever they lead me. In this case, I found an updated version of the MediLexicon Toolbar that I have written about previously. This is version 2.0 and has added features and customizable aspects. It is available for either Internet Explorer or FireFox, and retains its built-in uninstall button. It includes medical news, including mental health topics, and has added to the reference databases it can search for answers to your questionsI am an inveterate toolbar collector and could probably fill my entire monitor screen with them, leaving only an inch or so at the bottom for actual website content. There is an easy way to display only the toolbars you want during any session when using IE, however. Simply right click on any empty ... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=740450 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:01:00 +0100 740450 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=716515&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Flifehacking.html When I first discovered Lifehacker I immediately liked their web site and their stated reason for producing it: "Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live." Some of their more recent posts have included a free Smart Bookmarks Bar for Firefox, Alpha Geek: Make Microsoft Word less annoying, Calculate your caffeine intake (with nearly 200 popular beverages listed,) Create a living will online, How to find the best web freebies, Build a ten day survival pack for $25 or less, Tips for faster bar service, How to be a gentleman (first rule is "do not spit," and 75 comments followed it,) Prevent your dryer from catching fire, Financial mistakes redux - how to avoid them, Alpha... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=716515 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:56:00 +0100 716515 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=579278&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fnew-google-application-announced.html Google has announced the anticipated Presentation application for its current suite of free online office components. The Official Google Blog "birth announcement" states that, following Google's acquisition of Tonic Systems, we can expect the addition this summer. This puts their online suite into a very favorable position to be the most powerful and useful available. When combined with Gmail and all of its secondary features, Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Earth, SketchUp,the unofficial Gspace online storage application (possibly soon to have a future official version?), Google Toolbar, Picasa, Picasa Web Albums, Blogger, a personalizable Home Page, AdSense, Google Pack of additional free software ..... Oh, you get the idea. I'm not certain what the best thing was before sliced bread, b... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=579278 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:07:00 +0100 579278 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=472287&cid=t_101107_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F01%2Fpeople-may-or-may-not-know-by-this-time.html People may or may not know by this time that Microsoft is offering, free of charge and no strings attached, a download or CD of Microsoft Office Accounting Express either here or here. Ordering the free CD is probably better as this is a 208MB download and arrives almost as quickly by mail as it would take on dial-up. What you may not know is that Microsoft Office Live is offering a free basic website with free registered domain name, multiple email accounts, and a site builder with some very professional templates to advertise your practice or sell items. Of course, they want you to be successful so that you buy a more complex site and other services. Overall, this is an excellent product and a good manner in which to market it.Peace, DocCopyright © 2007, Thomas A. Blood, Ph.D. (Source: ... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=472287 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:34:00 +0100 472287