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Ubuntu Beta

By Mark on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

The new Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerka is in Beta now and will be released October 10, 2010. I have not tried it (because I hardly do Betas anymore) but it is said to have many great features. Besides the usual updates, there’s a new photo manager, improved multimedia controls, better Ubuntu One syncing, and more. [...]

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Ubuntu Better Than Ever

By Mark on Sunday, July 11th, 2010 | No Comments

The new Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is by far the best Ubuntu ever. I installed it on several computer. The installs have been flawless. Every easy! It is much more difficult to install Windows. Lucid finds all of the drivers except of course my Broadcom wireless drivers but it found a proprietary driver and ask [...]

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Windows Live Sync

By Mark on Saturday, July 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Windows Live Sync is a part of the Windows Live Essentials Beta. The old Live Sync would not sync to Skydrive, the new version will. There is one little problem. With a Skydrive account you get 25 GB of storage yet you can only sync 2GB. This seems silly to me. Is Microsoft afraid Skydrive [...]

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Firefox 4 Coming Soon

By Mark on Friday, July 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Firefox 4 Beta is now available for download and the product is scheduled for release early this Fall. It promises to have lots of great new features including… new tab location. On the top like Chrome. a new easier to use add-ons manager. support for the new HTML5 standard. Crash Protection. When a application (Flash, [...]

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Microsoft Technet

By Mark on Sunday, April 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Download all an use all of Microsoft’s software and use it forever without time limits or feature limits. You can download anything Windows Server, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Windows 7 and everything else. Just get a Membership to Microsoft Technet (cost: $349 per year) and you can have all of this and a whole lot [...]

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recordMyDesktop

By Mark on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

recordMyDesktop is a opensource desktop session recorder. It records everything you do on your desktop. It is very simple to use, much easier than Jing for Windows and Mac. Basically you select the region of the screen that you want to record and press record. When you finished recording press stop and wait for it [...]

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Essentials

By Mark on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Windows 7 is a great OS but a lot of essential software was left out on purpose to keep the basic install streamline. There is no email program like “Outlook Express”. No “Windows Movie Maker”. Frankly, I don’t use either of these but if you needed them you can get these and a whole lot [...]

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Copy DVDs To Your Harddrive

By Mark on Monday, March 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

I should say “Copy Your DVDs To Your Hardrive” with Handbrake. I downloaded Handbreak to copy a non-commercial DVD to my harddrive. You can copy protected DVDs to your harddrive as well with a little extra effort. I can’t tell you how to do this because the “Digital Millenium Copyright Act” make telling you illegal [...]

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Personal Software Inspector

By Mark on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 | No Comments

The Personsl Software Inspector by Secunia will check to see if you have critical software out of date and will prompt you to install the new version. I have a very up to date system but I install  Secunia PSI and ran it. After a couple of minutes it found that my Skype
had a

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Favorite Firefox Extentions

By Mark on Sunday, March 14th, 2010 | No Comments

I love the Firefox web-browser. One of things I like the most about Firefox are the extentions. Here are some of our favorites: FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. 1-Click YouTube Video Download – Download YouTube in a single click. Download [...]

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