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How to Avoid Computer Security Issues

This week there were major rumblings in the blog world that one of the biggest blogging platforms had a security vulnerability.  A lot of people would figure this was major commercial software – even Microsoft being involved. Believe it or not the product was not a Microsoft ...

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Open Source Software I Use

Today I am going to talk about all the good open source software that I use. Wikipedia define open source software as "Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code.". Do not confuse this with manufacturer's who release free software version of ...

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Open Office Experiment

One of my great Twiiter friends Bill Mitchell(@askbillmitchell) and I were having a discussion this week how even on a Windows platform I run as much open source software as possible. I said for doing everything with the exception of the operating system(I run Windows) and my office product (I run office 2007). Bill said why ...

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Why I Use 3 Web Browsers

Introduction Someone asked me this week how many web browser's I used and why. At the time I told them I use 3 browsers. They asked why 3 and I said that I would explain. Certain browser's are good for certain task The following should shed some light on I use and why I use them. Internet ...

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Installing WordPress

A great installing Wordpress Tutorial

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My Top 10 Software Applications Used

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Office 2007 SP2 is Out

Microsoft has now released Office 2007 SP2. Download Office 2007 SP2

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What I Use

I was look at my Wakoopa stats today and realized 63% of my time online at home is web browsing. With the bulk of it being Firefox. My third most used application lately - ITUNES. That shows how much the Ipod has become part of my life again. Microsoft Outlook rounds out the top 4.

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Virtual Machine Comparisons

Currently at home I am running the Windows 7 Beta as my operating system. I wanted to run Windows XP Pro in order to run some legacy stuff I have. I decided to setup a Virtual Machine. Virtual Machine software is special software which Lets you run an operating system within an operating system. I looked ...

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New WebSite Delay

Well my new website has been delayed. I have decided to switch from using my web hosting providers web site generation tool to the popular Open Source content management system called Website Baker.This will probably delay the site till a bit into January since I am learning as I go.

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