Talk of Many Things wishes its readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010.
Apart from WordPress on whose popular blogging platform this blog is built, let me thank two tools that have helped enrich Talk of Many Things.
One is IrfanView, which has helped greatly toward the processing of almost all pictures that appear on this blog. Over the years, I’ve dabbled with all kinds of graphics packages, ranging from the open source GIMP to advanced and expensive ones like Corel Draw. I’ve found all of them uniformly too complex for the novice user and have given up soon after starting to use them. But not IrfanView. It’s extremely simple to use while being adequately powerful for all everyday needs.
The other is AddThis, the small bookmarking button you see at the bottom of every post in Talk of Many Things and in thousands of other websites. AddThis is a simple, free widget that allows readers to conveniently bookmark and share the web page they’re reading on Digg, Del.icio.us, Facebook, LinkedIN, Twitter and over 200 other popular bookmarking and social networking services with a single mouse-click. Readers can also email and print any web page using AddThis. And, unlike the mailto tag based email links that you find on many websites, AddThis comes with its own email sending functionality and does not need any desktop email client like Outlook Express on your PC.
Although most users would find IrfanView and AddThis worth paying for, they’re both free. In the absence of a license fee, I hope they have some other revenue model that ensures their continued viability – I for one wouldn’t want to see them folding up.
Thank you for your continued interest in Talk of Many Things and look forward to staying in touch through 2010.