This past long weekend (Canada’s Civic Day) I have been playing with a free linux-based desktop operating system on all the PCs in our house. It has a strange name: Ubuntu. I must say that I like it a lot - it is much better than Lindows/Linspire which I tried and abandoned years ago because [...]

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My wife and I have access to five computers - three desktop PCs in our DiaSolid Tools and Supplies store and two notebook computers at home. We find one common problem with all of them…
Whether running Windows XP or Vista, they run very fast when new but slows down with time even when we stop [...]

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Camtasia Studio is an extremely popular software program that allows you to make video presentations. It captures and records whatever you have on your screen, not still images but actual actual videos that can be played or uploaded to websites. The current version is 5.0 but you can download this 3.12 version which is free [...]

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