Vanilla is a free and open-source forum software easy to install and with a huge amount of add-ons.
I liked this software because the core software that you install is an simple forum. Maybe too simple for most people, because it doesn’t even bring a WYSIWYG editor. I wish that I’ve found this software some months ago. I needed to install a forum system in some client website, but they wanted something simple and fully integrated in their website design. I found a poor solution then, because I wanted to avoid PhpBB. It’s great but it was too big.
Next time I’ll give a chance to Vanilla.
During last month I had to record some demonstrations in my computer. I used the well known Camtasia Studio. Well, now the trial is ending, and I don’t want to buy this software 
Today I found a nice software that can be used to achieve the same result. It is called CamStudio. You can record your screen while you perform some action like record an interaction with some software, record a presentation, etc. Then you can deploy it as an AVI file or flash video.
Maybe it isn’t new for many of you, but for those who haven’t ever heard about this software, give it a try.
While “googling” around the web I found an interesting application. It is a Java-based project management tool. It is called OpenProj and it is able to work with Microsoft Project files. I only tried with one MPP file and it worked fine. Since it is a Java application it works in any platform which is always nice
The main thing that I didn’t like about this software (during my 15 minutes experience, lol)was the language settings. OpenProj changes its language into you OS language and I didn’t find any option in the menu or any configuration file where I can change it to a custom language. It would be nice to have OpenProj in English but now I am bounded with PT-BR version which is very different from PT-PT 
Projity (the company that developed OpenProj) also has a SaaS application to host you project management solution. It is called Project on Demand.
