Mobile is like that

Alien TYC is currently busy with

1. Full time job. You will be surprise that some people have so much free time to facebook, msn, blogginh etc during office hours. Well, I am not one of those people with that amount of free time…sadly
2. School work. I am in my last term of my Bachelor degree in computer science with economics. Finishing my last assignment and preparing for my exams in 2008 May 22. Looking forward to my new life after the exams
3. Trying out free proprietary software. With competition in the market by open source software, proprietary software makers are releasing some software with ‘limited’ features free.
4. Someone special who walk/crawl/run/fly/jump/sneak/dance into my life.

Stay tune to find out more….

Today, I will start a bi-weekly post on useful free software that we can all use.

To start the very first post on useful free software, we introduce Audacity!

Basically, Audacity is a free tool to record and edit sounds. We here at Mobile.islikethat.com are no great musicians or music editors. However we use Audacity to edit mp3 songs.

Like the chorus of a song? Want to use the chorus as your ringtone? Search all of the internet in order to buy that particular ringtone with the chorus but can’t find?

Now we just need to purchase that song(from your favourite CD or online store) and use Audacity to ‘cut’ the song into the part which we want to use as our ringtone!

So get Audacity here today.

Somehow, Mac Address book is not able to export to CSV file. The reason why I need this is to export the address book to other applications to use say for email marketing.

Found this tool Address Book to CSV Exporter 1.3a by Antonio Lore

Download and try it out!

Acrobat PDF file is one of the most popular files in the computer world. Few of the main reasons is

• As compared to other file format, the size of a PDF file is much smaller with the same content
• Acrobat PDF reader can be downloaded free from Adobe
• PDF file is not editable by your recipient. Even though with the full Acrobat Software, the PDF file can be edited, access control can be use to prevent the file from being edit

Now only question now is without the full Acrobat Software, how do we create PDF files from say  Microsoft Word? For Apple computer owners like myself, there is a built in PDF printer default in the Operating System.  YES! (more…)

What does everybody in the entire world wide web has in common when surfing web sites? Well, we use web browsers to do so. Web browsers has become such a important common tool for internet access. So common and use to it until we nearly forget about it.

Today, we introduce the current web browsers available and you can have a choice to try them.

Internet Explorer

Still the current leader in number of market shares of web browsers. One of the main reasons is if you are using Microsoft Windows Operating system, you are by default always using Internet Explorer. Not much add-on is available for Internet Explorer as there are not many freelance developers keen to make Internet Explorer more hip.

Download it here

Mozilla Firefox

From the team that brought us made tabbed browsing a hit, (more…)