Geek Peek: report from latest IABC Wellington event
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010It’s that time of year when everyone in management gets a bit more squinty-eyed looking at their budgets. One particularly stubborn challenge can be the ballooning costs of proprietary software licences, which consume IT budgets before breakfast …
Former IABC Wellington President Simon Pleasants, reporting on IABC Wellington’s latest event, captures some of the highlights.
Chris Hall, IABC Chief Information Officer
IABC Wellington members and guests last week hosted IABC Chief Information Officer Chris Hall, over here from IABC World Head Office in San Francisco, at the Technology on a Shoestring event.
Chris suggests amongst other things:
- A full suite of office software — wordprocessing, spreadsheets, presentations etc: www.openoffice.com
- Manipulate all sorts of images with a Photoshop emulator: Gimp (for power users) or Irfanview (lighter weight)
- Create portable document format files with pdfcreator instead of Adobe Acrobat
- Stop that RAM-munching malware with Malwarebytes: http://www.anti-malware-2010.org/
- Get a multi-located team working together better with online collaboration tools … Chris mentioned Basecamp is useful, but there’s a small monthly charge.
- More happy delving in the cornucopia of geeky delight that is the open source community at Sourceforge.