Category: Windows Vista
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A faster OpenOffice
Rather than downloading a pirated copy of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), I keep repeating that you should try a free download of OpenOffice. But some people complain that it is too slow. I am not of this opinion, but I found a post about how to accelerate OpenOffice on an Ubuntu GNU/Linux. But this…
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Microsoft WGA servers are down
Those servers are central to validate the “Microsoft Genuine Advantage” service. In plain words, they provide the verification that you are really a registered user authorized by Microsoft. But these servers are currently down (some kind of network failure?) and Microsoft forecast about two days before going back to a normal situation. This simply means…
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DRAM price trends: Up or down?
This is quite surprising. After about a month of DRAM memory prices going up (this was quite surprising), the market analyst DRAMexchange tells us that this is now the end and the prices will fall again. Apparently, despite the vows of manufacturers like Nanya whose CEO is confirming that he would not try to limit…
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Best utility for your graphics card
Anandtech has a nice post about the best utility software programs for the owner of a recent graphics card (be it an nVidia or and AMD-ATI). They compare: ATI Catalyst Control Center ATI Tray Tools ATITool nVIDIA Control Panel & nTune RivaTuner nHancer BIOS Flashing options and programs
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Re-installation of Pegasus mail
When you’re an old user of Pegasus mail like I am, you see no reason to loose your old and faithful configuration when moving from one old PC to a newer one as I just did. But this kind of migration does not seem to be an option in the installation. However, following these instructions…
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100 applications for your USB key
Portable apps for a portable USB key. Portable Office Software Portable Email/Calendar/ToDo Programs Portable Text and Voice Messengers Portable Media Tools (Audio / Video) Portable Graphics Viewers and Image Editors Portable Browsers and Web Tools (FTP, Feedreaders, Torrent clients…) Portable Security Software Portable Games Other Portable Utilities Portable Developer Tools (Techies Only) All-In-One Packages Portable…