One of the most frequent problems we come up against in at work is people bringing in laptops that are dead/dying having not backed them up. Now you can backup, share or just store for access later all your pictures, videos and documents…for free with windows live skydrive. Previously I have not been hugely impressed [...]

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We have been trying to upgrade from the 5 beta version of sugar’s community edition to the full released 5.0 version. In theory this is a very simple proposition and within the admin interface there is an upgrade option where the software will find any new versions then recommend you backup and then upgrade. This [...]

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The chinese company Lenovo bought the struggling giant IBM in 2005 and is now close to releasing the new ThinkPad X300 which is set to rival the so talked about MACBook Air. I know if you are a MAC user you will just say “pff another attempt to compete with a MAC” but [...]

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For some reason a few weeks ago I loaded Nullsoft Winamp 5.52 on my computer. I think that it might have been to listen to on-line country music radio, but I can’t remember…
Last night I was using it to listen to some podcasts and I had a look at the memory usage for Winamp in [...]

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We have been using Adobe Acrobat Professional with Adobe LiveCycle Designer to create the downloadable application forms for where I work. We have been having troubles with one of the forms not submitting, so I had a look at it today and fixed it, but then had a closer look at how the forms work [...]

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