Posts Tagged ‘Tips’

Tips For A New PC

Posted: January 3, 2011 in Tips
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Here are five tips to get your new computer ready for action.

Windows Maintenance Tips

Posted: April 21, 2010 in Tips
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There is a lot of talk about Windows maintenance. What services should turn off? Which utilities should I use? To sleep or hibernate? Here’s a article from Lifehacker. It is the best article I have seen on the subject.

Speed Up Ubuntu

Posted: March 29, 2010 in Software
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There are several programs that may start up when your Ubuntu computer starts. Many of these programs are not needed. You can turn these off by going to “System, Preferences and Startup Applications”. You can turn off some of these but first you must know which applications do not have to start up so I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

GIMP Tutorials 1

Posted: September 21, 2008 in Tutorials
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I found many GIMP tutorials on Youtube. If you don’t know about GIMP it is a great image manipulation (like Photoshop) program that is very powerful and absolutely free.