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7th July Comments

What’s Holding OpenOffice Back?

Posted on July 7th, 2008 at 4:54 am

  Why doesn’t free trump expensive? Every Microsoft product has a free, open source counterpart created by dedicated programmers who loathe everything the company stands for. The free stuff is darn good. Yet companies and individuals continue to buy billions of dollars worth of Microsoft products. To be fair, Microsoft software is sometimes better than [...]

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28th June Comments

10 Great Software Programs You Can Get Gratis

Posted on June 28th, 2008 at 5:21 am

  As we bring another season of The PC Guy column to a close — I’ll be off for the summer — let’s take a quick look at 10 cool and free software programs. They include Paint.net, EssentialPIM, OpenOffice.org, PDFCreator, CDBurnerXP, 7-ZIP, Stickies, WordWeb and ooVoo. Coming out of left field in an already crowded [...]

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13th June Comments

Firefox 3 Ready to Ignite June 17

Posted on June 13th, 2008 at 4:47 am

  A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design. Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new "Places" feature lets users quickly access sites they [...]

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2nd June Comments

Adobe’s Acrobat.com could be an Office killer; Will interface matter?

Posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am

Adobe has tied together its online office suite wacrobat1.pngith the beta of Acrobat.com and the user interface is the big differentiator. What remains to be seen is whether online office users care about aesthetics. On Monday, Adobe unveiled Acrobat.com, a suite that allows you to create word processing documents, share files, convert PDFs and hold [...]

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27th May Comments

Back Up programs

Posted on May 27th, 2008 at 4:59 am

Okay the topic of doing back ups in linux has come to the forefront as of late so I thought I would toss a couple of possibilities into the fray. The first is Clonezilla and here is what they have to say about their product; You’re probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton [...]

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1st May Comments

Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats

Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 6:24 am

“The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live [...]

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24th April Comments

Web criminals fuel big rise in “trojans”

Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 7:34 am

Web criminals fuel big rise in “trojans” – Yahoo! News LONDON (Reuters) – Cyber-criminals are behind a dramatic rise in stealthy programs called “trojans” that infect computers to sell rogue software, send unwanted email or steal personal data, a study has found. If you’re reading this blog, it’s very important that you read and understand [...]

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24th April Comments

Browsing the Web the old-fashioned way

Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 7:26 am

Are you in the mood for some ’90s-style Web browsing with no graphic elements? Or, more realistically, do you work with a Linux console and often need to check something on the Web? If so, get acquainted with text-based Web browsers such as w3m, Lynx, and the similarly named Links. While browsing the Web without [...]

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23rd April Comments

Three Linux HTML editors reviewed

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 7:48 am

Today’s Web development tools offer capabilities that go beyond basic HTML editing. I compared three Web editors for Linux — Screem 0.16.1, Bluefish 1.0.7, and Quanta Plus 3.5.7 — to determine how well they handle today’s Web editing needs. The three programs are similar in many ways. All three are primarily code editors with syntax [...]

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19th April Comments

Backup Your Flickr Photos With Flickrfs

Posted on April 19th, 2008 at 6:19 am

What’s Flickr doing to you now? Pondering a possible purchase at the hands of Microsoft? Threatening to add more features like support 90-second video clips? Withholding those free doughnuts you were promised? Sounds like now might be a good time to make a backup of you Flickr images. Actually, even without the paranoia of a [...]

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