Category: Software
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OpenOffice logo
Surprisingly, a large number of people come right to my own web site just to collect the OpenOffice logo. I am sure that this is only a fluke, but I’d like to help them finding what they want. If you need a copy of those logos for your web site, please, do not directly include…
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New technologies: Updated availability schedule
If we look quickly, here are a few of the significant availability dates for some important technologies for PC computers around us: Windows Vista: awaited for the first week of October HD-DVD: announced for March 2006, but probably without write capacity (because DRM will not be implemented yet) Blu-Ray DVD: announced for May 2006 at…
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Windows Vista: Marketing techniques
Microsoft just announced that there will be a grand total of 6 different versions of Windows Vista. This is an approach well known of marketing specialists. A product is on a competitive market, the price goes down (or up) according to the laws of free market. If the market is not competitive, the price may…
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Button Maker, your small button for free
The Adam Kasley web site draws images of the small buttons that you may need for your own web site. Simple and easy. Merely what you want without knowing where to look for it.
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WSPR will tell you the power of your PC
This is a rather good surprise for the normal users of PC. Microsoft is rumoured to prepare a rating to evaluate if a PC will be able to provide a good, bad or excellent experience with Windows Vista. A PC rated 1 will be providing a minimal experience, a PC rated 5 will be near…
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Half the PCs cannot run Vista
According to The Inquirer, it is a wooping 50% of all current PCs that will not be able to display the nice new graphic interface of Windows Vista. Be ready to buy a new graphics card in just a few months for this. This could become a real problem for Vista because one of the…
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United Kingdom wants access to encrypted Vista hard drives
Her Majesty’s police force is worried by the promised arrival of Microsoft Vista and its feature to protect data on a PC hard drive by sophisticated encryption methods – to a result of leaving a foreigner unable to read any information from the PC hard drive. As a matter of fact, this feature could well…
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Linux penguin
You may have wondered were the drawings of the Linux penguin come from. As a matter of fact, there was indeed somebody who draw the cute logo and it is rather easy to find the real author. Larry Ewing is this guy with a pen. You will find nearly everything you want on his web…
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My test blog on Roums.WordPress.com
This is the blog I use to test the operation of the ready-to-be-used blog installment in WordPress.com: Roums.WordPress.com