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Archive for November, 2009

Competing head-on with Microsoft’s Office suite, OpenOffice.org offers a full, professional, suite of office productivity programs that rivals what the software giant charges $hundreds for and they offer it for free. That’s right. FREE!

How can they do this? There must be a catch, right? Nope. It’s a thing called Open Source that makes it all work. Open Source is about serious people who get together to create great stuff and make it available for others without charge. And there’s a lot of this going around lately. Chat boards, discussion forums, word processors, games, movie viewers, music players, file transfer (FTP) programs, web browsers, whole operating systems that rival Windoze, even the software that makes this website run, are all professional-grade software packages available for free. They are not sold. They have no price. They are free to the taker.

Many discussions have been held about the benefits of taking pictures of your clothes on a live model vs. a mannequin. Everyone has an opinion, and when it comes down to it, the choice is yours. Personally, I have a mannequin named Goldie that I love! I use her almost exclusively for my older, more classic vintage from the 30s thru early 60s. Goldie has a gorgeous figure, she doesnt talk back to me, she is always on time, she mostly stays still when I tell her to and, most importantly, she never has a blemish!