Watching the net have made an interesting post about making the mistakes that everyone makes with their computer – but shouldn’t!
All of the points made are accurate, and we would recommend making the changes discussed.
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Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Free alternative to Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image
Norton Ghost is an extremely useful utility that allows you to duplicate one hard drive to another. In How to install/replace a PATA (IDE) hard drive we shared a video showing how to physically replace an ATA or IDE hard drive.
But what about your old data? Well, you can copy this from your old hard drive with a number of utilites, Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image being some of the more popular commerical programs.
You can use a nifty utility called Clonezilla to do this for free.
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Using a BlackBerry with ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
Barry, the software package he reccomends installing can also be installed by double-clicking on the RPM files that are available on the SourceForge.net site for the tool: -
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Alternatives to Microsoft Office
Sun
Microsystems have now released v3.0 of their popular ‘OpenOffice.org’
productivity suite. It’s a fantastic alternative for current users of
Microsoft Office, or those who wish to have the functionality of the
Microsoft Office suite, but do not like the high pricetag.
It has compatibility with all the Microsoft Office file types (including new .docx for Microsoft Word 2007)
- See more at: http://www.jaytag.co.uk/blog/page/4/#sthash.VmCsdRU8.dpuf
Sun Microsystems have now released v3.0 of their popular ‘OpenOffice.org’ productivity suite. It’s a fantastic alternative for current users of Microsoft Office, or those who wish to have the functionality of the Microsoft Office suite, but do not like the high pricetag.
It has compatibility with all the Microsoft Office file types (including new .docx for Microsoft Word 2007)
It has compatibility with all the Microsoft Office file types (including new .docx for Microsoft Word 2007)
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How-To: Install a Graphics Card in Your PC
Tiger TV have an easy to follow walkthrough on installing a new graphics card into your PC:
Both Maplin and Insight are good places to buy a graphics card – Insight is a little cheaper than Maplin also (if you are prepared to wait for the card to be delivered!): - See more
Both Maplin and Insight are good places to buy a graphics card – Insight is a little cheaper than Maplin also (if you are prepared to wait for the card to be delivered!): - See more
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
Some key features:
This handy utility removes a variety of different viruses and malware, and is available free!
Here is a list of some of the viruses it can remove.
- Support for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista.
- Light speed quick scanning.
- Ability to perform full scans for all drives.
- Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Protection Module.
- Database updates released daily.
- Quarantine to hold threats and restore them at your convenience.
- Ignore list for both the scanner and Protection Module.
- Settings to enhance your Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware performance.
- A small list of extra utilities to help remove malware manually.
Enable DVD Playback in Ubuntu – Fast
It’s a pain that ubuntu does not play DVDs ‘out of the box’ as it were.
To fix this, quite simply, open a terminal session and type:
sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh That should be it!
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To fix this, quite simply, open a terminal session and type:
sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh That should be it!
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