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Fri
18
Mar
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Explained: What to Expect if you Ditch Windows and Go Linux

Infopackets Reader 'Kathy aka VJ' writes: " Dear Dennis, In regard to John Lister's article ' Windows 10 install surprising users ' - how about an article about switching to Linux instead of Windows 10, including a how to, cost, warnings, software ... compatibility, etc. I've just about had it with Microsoft and it's aggressive tactics, trying to get me to install Windows 10 with its 'gotcha' updates . As such, I am thinking it's time to get myself out from under the Microsoft umbrella. I am expert with MS Office and would hate to switch, but if it won't run under Linux, I may have to stick with ... (view more)

Fri
08
Jan
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'Jumplist Launcher', and 'The Mammoth Dedicated Server Guide'

Jumplist Launcher The Windows 7 jumplists, which appear when you right-click on an any program pinned to the taskbar, help improve workflow. Unfortunately, if you want to combine multiple programs in one icon, you're toast. Here's where Jumplist ... Launcher comes to the rescue: it lets you add up to 60 programs or files within self-defined groups inside a jumplist. http://en.www.ali.dj The Mammoth Dedicated Server Guide In order to give game developers and publishers a starting point, Mammoth ISP has created The Mammoth Dedicated Server Guide. This document provides high-level information about ... (view more)

Tue
17
Nov
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'Guide to Google Wave', and 'Freelancer Toolset'

Guide to Google Wave Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that is notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product ... that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. http://www.completewaveguide.com Freelancer Toolset Running a business for yourself means you have to be inventive and always on the lookout for a new and better way to get things done. Innovation junkies, take note: the ... (view more)

Mon
02
Nov
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'Style 7', and 'Lifehacker Complete Guide To Windows 7'

Style 7 Style 7 is a Windows 7 theme generator. It uses the default Microsoft Aero theme as a base and generates a new theme using blackbox styles created with a single, simple, human-readable, configuration file. Thousands are readily available for ... download. http://kludgets.com Lifehacker Complete Guide To Windows 7 Windows 7 is finally ready for widespread, public consumption. This guide will take you straight through from system requirements and upgrading your PC to highlighting Windows 7's best new features. http://lifehacker.com Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob ... (view more)

Wed
04
Feb
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'Flashrom', and 'Folder Guide'

Flashrom Flashrom is a utility which can be used to detect, read, erase, or write BIOS chips (DIP, PLCC, SPI). In general, it is very likely that flashrom works 'out of the box' even if your main board is not listed. http://www.coreboot.org Folder ... Guide Folder Guide is a free, handy utility that provides fast access to your frequently used and favorite folders. It can operate as the part of your context menu in your Windows Explorer. After quick install it will appear in context menus of Windows Explorer and Open/Save dialogs as "Folder Guide" item. With Folder Guide, you no longer ... (view more)

Tue
23
Dec
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'Power User Guide To Google Chrome', and 'Exploring Time'

Power User Guide To Google Chrome Become a keyboard shortcut master, take a peek under Chrome's hood, and customize its behavior and skin with some of the best shortcuts, themes, add-ons, and functionality available for this fun and fascinating new ... browser from search giant Google. http://lifehacker.com Exploring Time Exploring Time is a two-hour, prime-time television event that reveals the unseen world of natural change and probes the deep mysteries of time. Each and every day, whether we notice it or not, an endless current of change occurs without pause, flowing relentlessly on the river ... (view more)

Tue
18
Dec
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Finally! Carol's Office 2007 Tips Available!

Attention all MS Office users -- Frustrated by MS Word? Excel just doesn't seem to add up? Feel powerless using PowerPoint and MS Outlook? Enough already! Learn MS Office: The Easy Way Our very own Carol Bratt has done it again -- and just in time ... for the holiday season! Whether you're an MS Office veteran or just beginning to learn the ropes, Carol's new Tips and Tricks eBook series on MS Office 2007 is just for you! If you've ever used the cumbersome help menu in any of the MS Office suites, then you know just how frustrating it can be when you can't find what you're searching for, or the ... (view more)

Tue
01
May
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'Folder Guide', and 'Cursorus'

Folder Guide Folder Guide provides fast access to your frequently used and favorite folders. It can operate as the part of your context menu in Windows Explorer. http://www.freeware365.com/desktop/folderguide.htm Cursorus With Cursorus, your cursor ... is no longer stopped by the sides of the screen, but instead comes out on the opposite side. http://www.loonies.narod.ru/ (view more)

Sat
30
Dec
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'3d Traceroute', and 'Super Xp Tweaking Guide - Sp2 Version'

3d Traceroute The greatest traceroute program ever. 3d traceroute display: multiple graphics modification options, statistics window: min, max, average, standard deviation and, history window with destination ping time, as list: the usual data view ... with lots of features, long period Ping and HTTP monitor, Whois query: everything with only one click, record and playback: record any trace and playback step by step, build in browser: and the browser is already built in., ASN inspector, NSLookup: with UDP and TCP. And zone transfer capability., Day and Night trace: Admins beloved toy, Command- ... (view more)

Tue
25
Jul
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'Usbdlm', and 'Beginner's Guide To Customization, Skinning And Shell Replacements'

Usbdlm USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows XP. USBDLM is a Windows service that gives control over Window's drive letter assignment for USB drives. Running as service makes it independent of the logged on user's privileges, so there is no need to ... give the users the privilege to change drive letters. It automatically solves conflicts between USB drives and network or substituted drives of the currently logged on user. Furthermore you can define new default letters for USB drives and much more. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/ Beginner's Guide To Customization, Skinning And Shell Replacements ... (view more)

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