Tech.It.2.Me->{By.Anton.Perez}

Check out PC Mags‘s comprehensive list of the best free software for your computer. It includes apps for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and mobile; also has some interesting hardware choices.

Here’s an interesting read and how-to on LifeHacker.com showing you how to build a backup server that supports multiple OSes using Restore, which is open source and one that features a web admin-like page for backup management.

As a Mac user at home and a Windows user at work, I had looked for a solution to sync my iCal calendar with my Google Calendar. I did find some ways to do it, such as taking advantage of iCalshare publishing, but never found one that did a two-way sync – that is, changes I make in my iCal or Google Calendar would reflect the same data – until I heard of Spanning Sync.

Unfortunately, it’s not freeware, but for $25/year or $65/lifetime subscription, it isn’t too bad, considering the benefits it gives you.

So check it out! Peace!

Nice!  VMWare recently released an open source version of its very popular virtual  machine tools.  It’s currently housed on Sourceforge, known as Open Virtual Machine Tools.

The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.

Check it out here.

Have you ever wondered how to do this, well…look no further as I’ll show you.  It’s simple really.  All you have to do is download AddressBook2CSV Exporter from Antonio Lore‘s website.

After installing it, simply do the export, and then import into Gmail, which basically needs a CSV file; however, be forewarned…if some fields are empty, it may not look pretty after the import.  It’s easily fixable though.

“Till the next.