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Mint News

By Mark on Monday, September 28th, 2009 | No Comments

On August 8th I made a post Free Personal Finance Managers. Since August 8th a lot has changed. Mint has now been purchased by Intuit (makers of Quicken and Quicken Online). So where does that leave us? For now I’m continuing to use Mint because it is the best personal finance manager. Better than Quicken [...]

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Online AVs

By Mark on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | No Comments

One of the more stupid things I’ve heard said over the years of working in tech support is “Install this free CA Security Suite. It will remove the viruses (viri) that are slowing your Internet down.” WRONG! If you are installing an anti-virus because you are having problems, don’t! A full anti-virus not only will [...]

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Photo Repair

By Mark on Monday, September 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Here is a recently restored photo that I have been working on. A lot of what was wrong with this photo was not fixed by Photoshop. It was very stained and very dirty. I had to remove the dirt covering the picture first. If you Google cleaning photos it will tell you much better techniques [...]

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Consolidate Firefox’s Chrome

By Mark on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 | No Comments

This tip from Gena Trapani of Lifehacker.

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Windows 7 Book

By Mark on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | No Comments

As you may know there is a new version of Windows (Windows 7) coming out October 22. What you don’t know is there are already books on the subject. One of these is Windows 7 Secrets by Paul Thurrott (co-host of the Windows Weekly poadcast on the TWIT network and creator of the Supersite for [...]

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New Google Apps Feature

By Mark on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 | No Comments

You Gmail users have been able to open documents attachments in Google Docs for quit some time but did you know that you can now save them in GDocs. Open your message that contains the attachment. At the bottom of the message click “Open as a Google….” then just click “Save”. Now your Word, Excel, [...]

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