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7 nifty things about windows 7

November 17, 2009

Win­dow 7 has been avail­able at retail for a couple of weeks now, so I thought I’d use this post to explore some of the cooler fea­tures and func­tions, cooler to me, at least And, of course, when you select fea­tures to pro­file, a nice round num­ber is always a bonus… …more

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Tagged as: Microsoft, Operating System, Reviews, Windows, Windows 7

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Going back in time with Windows 7

November 17, 2009

Ever wish you could undo a par­tic­u­lar driver or applic­a­tion install­a­tion? I have, recently in fact when I installed Adobe CS3 on my wife’s Win­dows 7 /XP dual-boot com­puter. Some­thing happened in that install that pooched the Flash plu­gin for Inter­net Explorer. It could have been a bad scene, except for a cool little feature […]

Tagged as: Microsoft, Operating System, Reviews, Windows, Windows 7

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Latest Ubuntu release unleashes my laptop

April 27, 2007

As some of you may know, my house­hold server and my age­ing Com­paq Pres­ario R3230CA laptop both run Ubuntu. Well ima­gine my sur­prise when the latest upgrade to Ubuntu (7.04 Feisty Fawn) activ­ated the dormant WiFi hard­ware. Pre­vi­ous Ubuntu ver­sions didn’t sup­port the Broad­com 802.11g wire­less, but judging from my happy res­ults, the Feisty Fawn […]

Tagged as: Lifestyle Technology, Linux, Operating System, OS, Reviews, software, Ubuntu

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