Thursday, September 10, 2009

Free software

Week 7 lecture: 
So this week faced a return from the ever amusing Jason. He talked about freeware apps or for the technologically inept 'free software' that can be downloaded with ease from the internet with a mere click of a button.

All computers in some way or another will eventually be linked to the internet to use internet software. Jason mused through his lecture looking at a website called portableapps.com which you can readily download software so it can be used on portable means.
Other examples are freewaregenius and sourceforge. They are huge data bases for free software, worth having a peek at as I have found some real time savers and time wasters on here!

Basically he talked about these sites for most of the lecture and then discussed 3 open-source software issues, these being:
1. Viruses
2. The economy (i.e. getting donations for the download and use of someone's software) and
3. The fact that people just don't care and download it anyway.

I also learnt that there is freeware software to trace deleted files. When we delete something from our hard drive we're really only deleting the file name, so really there is hope when you think you have deleted your messages to god. Ha!

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