There will be times where, no matter how you try, you simply can’t share your ideas with text alone. At the same time, you may not be willing to whip out your video recording software and go through the steps of editing a video, adding or editing sound, uploading it to a server and possibly co...

we’ve received several copies of this instructive diagram, which the helpful illustrators of graph jam have made available to coffee watchdogs the world over. seeing people print their passive-aggressive flow charts off the internet makes our resident nerd, eric, sentimental for simpler times....

Ever wonder what it takes to get a IT system up and running as a nonprofit under 25 people? In these difficult economic times, it’s really important to get your act together regarding your nonprofit’s finances. When I started out in the tech industry in the 1990s, IT departments were sti...

I’ve spent a lot of time poking around for interesting tips and tidbits to share with you here, and some of it makes me roll my eyes and exclaim at my computer that something “isn’t news!!” but this little statistic made me sit up and take notice. Now, I love google docs. I&#...

PC World has a great article suggesting to move small businesses from Windows to Linux as Windows XP, so far the best Windows OS is no more available in store. I am at the same situation and infact i wanted to write on the same subject from the past few days. I am using Windows XP from long and neve...

May has ended up being a really busy month for me. I’ve done a lot of biking (550 km so far this month), but not a lot of blogging here on axodys.com. I’ve also had a hard time getting anything done during my prime evening project hours (roughly 10PM - 12PM) because I’ve been regul...

A few days ago Sun Microsystems created an extension for OpenOffice which enables you to edit any MediaWiki page, which will be a blessing for those of us who are trying to maintain a Wiki. I myself prefer to edit pages online, through the normal interface, but when I am using a Wiki for personal en...

Welcome to this week’s article that is listing all the interesting software updates of the last seven days. I’m trying my best to keep an overview of all the updates of the past week and collect them in that time to present you one article each Wednesday that contains a list of many majo...

After drinking an espresso this morning, Patrick, Arjen, Babette and me jumped into Boris’ car and headed to Belgium for the first day of our Next Web Open Office Road Trip, destination Belgium. We’ve visited two companies: Netlash, Webdesign and print design The Netlash and Next Web tea...

I have been sending out Christmas letters for many years. I got the idea from Lamont Wood, a writer and friend whose annual reports of Conglomerated Woodco are always filled with fun, and details of his family's life in Texas. Lamont and I co-wrote a book early in the 1990s, called "Bulletin Board S...