Squeaky Mouse - About
Who are we?
Squeaky Mouse looks to improve the level of service offered to small businesses and home computer users. We are for people who want a personal service at an attractive price.
The company founder is Stuart Turner who has been in the IT Industry for 15 years and has worked for large and small organisations and also been the extended family "Tech guy" for a number of years. Stuart has also developed websites free of charge for the local community - Aztecs JFC, Linton Scouts, Weston Colville Cricket Club and a website for his wife Susie Turner who is an artist.
Our goal is to make using computers fun and as inexpensive as possible. We recommend free alternatives wherever possible - see "Open Source" on the right.
Open Source
Open Source is software provided for free. Sounds too good to be true? Well the operating system I use didn't cost me a penny, the software I use to build the website - nothing. How do you fancy an office suite that is completely free? This is all possible - most Open Source software runs on Windows and Linux.
Contact us if you want to discuss Open Source more. It can save you pounds - you can go as far as completely free for everything, or perhaps you want to go half way and buy Vista and use Open Source software?
Below are links to some great FREE software:
Gimp - Graphics program a bit like Adobe Photoshop
OpenOffice - Office suite compatible with Microsoft Office
Ubuntu - Free Linux Operating System - I'm using it to write these webpages!
The Open Source as Alternative web site has many links to Open Source software and their commercial equivalents.