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Foxit – A PDF Viewer for Windows & Ubuntu!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:00:38 +0000

As you are probably aware by now, almost every manual and “official” document that you find on the Internet ( and in business ) is in PDF (Portable Document Format). It was designed by Adobe Systems and ( thankfully ) in 2008 they released it as an open format. What this meant was that other [...]

Christmas is in the Air

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:13:07 +0000

This time of year is when Christmas slowly creeps into my veins, it’s the little things, not the advertising that does it. When my wife and I were younger we always started our Christmas shopping the day after Remembrance Day ( Nov 11 ), but that was before the Internet and on-line shopping. We also [...]

HDAT2 – The Ultimate Hard Drive Rescue Tool

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:42:04 +0000

So now that I’ve upgraded to a Karmic Koala, and am happy with most of the results, I’ve decided that it’s time to retire my old system ( all of 3 years…) and see what else I can do with it. Suffice to say, unfortunately, there are still a lot of things that don’t run well [...]

How to Dress up a Koala

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:58:48 +0000

So, as I mentioned my upgrade to Karmic Koala went pretty well without a hitch, it was certainly a lot easier than any Windows upgrade that I had done AND it went a lot faster and with fewer problems. That being said, the boys at Ubuntu are almost paranoid about anything that isn’t 110% free and [...]

A Jaunty Jackalope turns into a Karmic Koala…

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:56:00 +0000

For those who may not be aware “Jaunty Jackalope” is the name given by Ubuntu for their 9.04 version release and “Karmic Koala” is the name for the 9.10 release. I have been running with “Jaunty” for a while now, but big promises have been made that “Karmic” would fix a lot of what ailed it [...]

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