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Are you a power Gmail user? If not, these 6 little known, yet useful Gmail tips can get you on the road to being a power Gmail user today!
1. Import your contacts from Outlook, Thunderbird or Yahoo! Mail to Gmail. Don’t spend your entire weekend trying to copy your contacts over from another program or service! Just export your contacts as a .csv file and upload to Gmail. You can upload up to 3,000 contacts at a time. Here’s a detailed how-to on importing contacts using this method.
2. Use the vacation responder to automatically send messages to contacts. You do not have to be on vacation in order to use the vacation responder. If I am facing a deadline and too busy to talk, I will set up my vacation responder to let people know that I appreciate their email and I will get back to them within a certain timeframe. Read More»
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An update is available that will help improve the performance and reliability of Windows Vista SP1.
This update includes the following improvements on a Windows Vista SP1-based computer:
1. The stability of Windows Vista SP1-based computers by addressing some crashes that may occur when you try to check e-mail by using a POP3 e-mail client such as Windows Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird.
2. The reliability of the Windows Vista SP1 based-computers by addressing some problems that occur when you delete user accounts by using the User Accounts item in Control Panel. When this problem occurs, the system may stop responding (hang). Read More»
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Binaries tailored specifically to the open source Linux operating system can coexist on the same desktop with Windows Vista and Windows XP programs via Ulteo Virtual Desktop. Essentially, the promise of the Ulteo Virtual Desktop is to deliver Linux applications on Windows via the Ulteo panel. The virtualized environment will permit end users to run native Linux solutions right on the Windows Vista desktop, and integration complete down to the level of sharing the Windows Aero graphical user interface.
“At the moment, you will find a selection of applications that include: Firefox web browser enabled with Flash & Java, the full OpenOffice.org office suite that can deal with your MS Office documents KPdf to deal with your PDF documents, Kopete: the multi-Instant Messaging software that supports MSN and other protocols, Skype, Thunderbird + Enigmail, Gimp and Digikam to manage your pictures and Inkscape and Scribus to create great graphics and newspapers,” reads a fragment of Ulteo’s description. Read More»
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January 02, 2008 by
Jason Many applications come and go everyday from our computers and, in the end, only the best remains. Therefore, we thought it was a good idea to pick ten of the best open source applications of the year that passed. The following classification is not a “who’s the best or worst app” kind of list, it was made based on the most used and useful applications that helped us (the users) during the entire year. Without any further introduction, here are the finalists: Read More»
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Mozilla has made a new version of Firefox available which addresses several security issues including a highly debated input validation flaw that was reported just over a week ago. The bug in question affected users who run both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Heated discussions over the last week among security experts as well as the browser makers themselves have essentially created two sides on the issue, one blaming Microsoft and the other Mozilla. While this patch protects users from being exploited by the bug, it does not correct the vulnerability that exists within IE.
Firefox 2.0.0.5 also corrects several other security flaws, two of them critical. Read More»
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Every version of Windows Microsoft has released has always left its users wanting more – either more features, more control or simply more value. And that’s left a huge hole for the many computer programmers out there to fill. In the end, we think they’ve done an admirable job providing solutions for Windows gaps that Microsoft itself would have trouble improving on.
So if you’re sick of the way a particular feature works (or doesn’t work) in Windows, don’t put up with it – replace it with one of these ten freeware tools that should help to make Windows do what you want it to. Read More»
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