All is doom and gloom at the moment in Ireland. Unemployment figures are rising and all is dom and gloom. I have stopped listening to it as it is the same story every day. I am not putting my head in the sand but in a couple of hours per week on a couple of good sites I can read news and updates not just for Ireland but across the world.
On top of that I though this evening of all the free pieces of Software that are out there that if you are an IT professional you can use to at least try and get out there and make some money. For example as I type this I am upgrading the Lactation Consultants of Ireland's website to WordPress 2.7 (a bit overdue but I have been pretty busy with 3 web site launches over the past couple of days and trying to get a Google Ad Words campaign sorted out and that isnt even my day job).
Anyway I digress - WordPress is a fine CMS and one I use most and it is completly free with lots of free add ons. I am surfing with a free browser (Firefox my browser of choice for years) and typing this blog entry in ScribeFire which I would be lost without as I (try) and keep a lot of blogs up to date and could not do it in the traditional way of logging in and out. So again a nice light tool that is free. I am not pumping SEO terms into this blog btw just impressed byt the free software community out there. A list of other free packaghes that I use constantly on a daily basis are
On top of that I though this evening of all the free pieces of Software that are out there that if you are an IT professional you can use to at least try and get out there and make some money. For example as I type this I am upgrading the Lactation Consultants of Ireland's website to WordPress 2.7 (a bit overdue but I have been pretty busy with 3 web site launches over the past couple of days and trying to get a Google Ad Words campaign sorted out and that isnt even my day job).
Anyway I digress - WordPress is a fine CMS and one I use most and it is completly free with lots of free add ons. I am surfing with a free browser (Firefox my browser of choice for years) and typing this blog entry in ScribeFire which I would be lost without as I (try) and keep a lot of blogs up to date and could not do it in the traditional way of logging in and out. So again a nice light tool that is free. I am not pumping SEO terms into this blog btw just impressed byt the free software community out there. A list of other free packaghes that I use constantly on a daily basis are
- Notepad ++
- Filezilla
- Easy Thumbnails
- and a few others
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