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It is impossible to list all these tools, but didn’t you want to have a list of all the best…
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Thanks to Bruce Byfield of Linux Journal, it is now possible to have a relatively fair comparison of the heavy-weight…
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My preferred Internet browser, Opera, has now reached a new version v10.50. Not only is it still the same nice,…
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We do so much typing that we tend to forget about it. But there are ways to improve the situation…
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The excellent office desktop suite, OpenOffice.org (Word, Excel and PowerPoint, in a free form, if you want) just moved to…
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Following our previous post about the evolutions of web browsers, it is interesting to notice that Google just announced that…
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This week has seen a pretty exhilarating story develop in front of our Internet eyes. Started as a muddy conflict…
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The larger our displays, the tougher it gets to find adequate wallpapers. NASA (through a sélection from Chamorro) comes to…
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There are few things that you can do to significantly improve the speed of your Internet connection. Of course, you…
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It’s worth noticing it if you are using Opera. I had a difficult-to-solve issue recently. While playing with the idea…
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The arrival of Windows 7 also annonces the arrival of a new updated DirectX to serve the PC gamers’ community.…
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With the repeated announcement of (minor) incidents with the security of the original PDF reader from Adobe, I wondered what…
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If you want to grab the maximum CPU power for your PC video game (or any other PC application, by…
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OK, you’ve already seen all the icon collections on the Internet. Nothing can surprise you anymore. Stop! Icons Etc is…
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Windows 7 is not even here, but there are already people complaining about its download speed when using Torrent P2P…
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I am not sure that this is exact all over the Internet, but I just noticed that this is true…
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