Hello Robot » mac http://www.hellorobot.se/blog Tobias Gärder, en frilansande webbformgivare, om design, webbutveckling, inspiration och mjukvara. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:46:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Find Alternatives To Expensive Software http://www.hellorobot.se/blog/find-free-alternatives-to-expensive-software/341/ http://www.hellorobot.se/blog/find-free-alternatives-to-expensive-software/341/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 15:37:43 +0000 Tobbe http://www.hellorobot.se/blog/?p=341 AlternativeTo.net helps you find free software alternatives

Considering the fact that Adobe wants $640 for a full version of Photoshop CS4, $353.99 for Dreamweaver CS4 and Microsoft wants $313 for Office 2007 it’s probably safe to assume that there’s a whole lot of people out there looking for cheaper (and legal) alternatives.

AlternativeTo.net is a website dedicated to helping users find better alternatives to popular apps. Pick your preferred platform (Windows, Mac, Linux and online) and license (commercial, free, open source etc) and you’re ready to go. No more hours of sifting through heaps of crappy alternatives.

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Originally posted at Hello Robot]]> http://www.hellorobot.se/blog/find-free-alternatives-to-expensive-software/341/feed/ 0 Vienna Not Updating Your Feeds Anymore? http://www.hellorobot.se/blog/vienna-not-updating-your-feeds-anymore/149/ http://www.hellorobot.se/blog/vienna-not-updating-your-feeds-anymore/149/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:43:10 +0000 Tobbe http://www.hellorobot.se/blog/?p=149 Vienna Mac RSS ReaderVienna, my Mac RSS reader of choice, recently stopped updating most of my feeds and I just couldn’t get it to work again no matter what. A nice case of likely database corruption according to the developers. Anyway, I was stupid enough to hastily erase its database (located in “~/Library/Application Support/Vienna/messages.db”) figuring it just held the posts, not the actual subscriptions, but no. I found myself with a blank and subscription-less client. Tried to help it but instead I lobotomized it completely. Bummer indeed.

If you’d find yourself in the same situation I advice you to first export the database, quit Vienna, move messages.db to another location (or just rename it) and then restart Vienna to import the recently exported version. This way your database gets recreated and hopefully you get to keep both your subscriptions and content, worst case scenario is that you lose some of your content but still get to keep all of your subscriptions. Better than a clean slate at least.

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