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Welcome to the suck

You know your life is going to suck for the next few hours when you insert your 4GB CF memory card into a reader and this shows up on the screen. Clicking on the card proceeded to freeze the laptop, subsequent attempts at mounting the card normally via USB reader (two different readers) and a […]

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Freedom from the Office (MS Office that is)

NeoOffice is a free and nice alternative to Microsoft Office and unlike OpenOffice it doesn’t need X11 to run. It runs natively in Mac OSX by using Java. So if you’re in need of an office suite for you Mac OSX machine and have more important things to do with your money (rent, food, childcare, […]

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It’s a Google World

Okay, Google has a search engine, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Earth, etc. But if you delve into Google Labs you’ll find that they now have spreadsheets , a word processor, a webpage design application, the list goes on and on. I would think that if I were someone like Microsoft, I wouldn’t be happy. There […]