Archive for September, 2009

Mint News

Posted: September 28, 2009 in Web 2.0
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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 [...]

Online AVs

Posted: September 27, 2009 in Security
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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 [...]

Photo Repair

Posted: September 21, 2009 in Tips
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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 [...]

This tip from Gena Trapani of Lifehacker.

Windows 7 Book

Posted: September 15, 2009 in Tips
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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 [...]

New Google Apps Feature

Posted: September 1, 2009 in Google
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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, [...]