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Upgrading operating systems

How would you respond if I told you that all it would take is a few clicks to upgrade your Windows XP to Wndows Vista?  That it would be able to download and upgrade the entire system in a matter of hours (depending on the speed of your Internet connection).  What if I said it would also upgrade your word processor, web browser, and most of the other commonly used applications?  What if I said it wouldn't even cost you a thing?

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April 20, 2007 at 12:22 am
Categories: Linux
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Thunderbird 2.0

Thunderbird is an email software sibling to Firefox, the excellent web browser from the Mozilla foundation.  Today I found out that version 2.0 was released for Thunderbird.  Among the new features are:

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April 19, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Categories: Email, Software
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Suggestion for Google Talk Widget

I noticed recently that Google has a web page widget for Google Talk.  I have one major suggestion:

I manage an instance of Google Apps for Your Domain.   It would be more than great if Google could work out an instance of the Talk Widget to work with a Google Apps domain.  The widget could be either added to the customized Google Apps homepage, or it could even be added to another homepage for the domain.  

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April 18, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Categories: Communications, Google
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Rebooting an iPod Nano

iPod NanoI was listening to music today when all of a sudden my iPod Nano froze up in the middle of the song, with the display lit.  Pushing any of the normal buttons wouldn't un-freeze it.  Even waiting for a few minutes, the display stayed lit and it still wouldn't do anything.

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April 6, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Categories: Mac
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NeoOffice ships version 2.1

I've been using OpenOffice.org on macs long before I even owned a mac.  OpenOffice.org was just barely turning 1.1 back in those days, and installing it on a mac required learning how to install and get running X11.

NeoOffice is a version of OpenOffice.org rebuilt entirely for the mac.  I've been using versions of NeoOffice for some time, but it has finally hit a level of maturity that makes me feel more confortable about showing it off.  The latest version, 2.1, is available for download and is based off of OpenOffice.org version 2.1.

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April 4, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Categories: Mac, Open Source
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