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Like Metro, Try Eight From Deviant Art 21 Aug 2013 | 11:34 am
Eight is a down loadable start page from DeviantArt that simulates the windows 8 Metro experience. Even though all the apps and links used with EIGHT are web based the experience is impressive. The lo...
If You Liked the old AOL Listening Party and Spinner Better 11 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
I used to like the old format for AOL listening party and Spinner. While the new format is good in some ways I liked the old format better especially when I wanted to discover new music. Fortunately, ...
Linux Speech Recognition 5 Jul 2013 | 12:42 pm
One shortcoming of Linux is that I've not found a native speech recognition program. While I've seen programs Like Dragon Naturally speaking work on Wine on some You Tube videos. I've never got anythi...
TeamViewer 8 rocks 29 Jun 2013 | 04:26 pm
Recently I've been playing with some VPN options I first started playing around with Adito which works well. But to use it I needed to install it on a server machine then use it to connect to make a t...
Humble Double FIne Bundle Xubuntu 12.04 and ATI Raedon 6570 10 May 2013 | 10:18 am
Recently I purchased the Double Fine Humble Indie Bundle and have been enjoying the games. The main one I've been playing so far is Brutal Legend. This is definately a really cool game especially runn...
Zorin Rocks 9 May 2013 | 04:39 pm
Recently I tried the newest version of Zorin OS. While I still prefer Xubuntu for my desktop install, I am really enjoying Zorin. For a live disk or for someone who wants to try Linux for the first ti...
Wine ReactOS WindowsXP and Back Better Software Compatability 9 May 2013 | 02:29 pm
If using any of the following sometimes finding software that is compatable can be difficult. These sights will help with finding a variety of different versions to help with finding a compatible vers...
Fun with Wordpress 26 Feb 2013 | 12:17 pm
First thing, yea I know, I'm writing about Wordpress on Blogspot. Right now I'm experimenting with Wordpress. I hope to eventually take much of the content here and move it to Wordpress. I'm doing th...
Airpush Annoyance 13 Feb 2013 | 02:38 am
Recently, I bought an android device. With this device the standard place to get apps is the Google Play Store. Despite using Google Play to get most of the apps for my device I started to get random ...
Administration of windows 8 Just Made Easier 28 Jan 2013 | 01:42 pm
I just found a handy little trick for administration tasks with windows 8. Just create a folder on the desk and rename it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Then just open the folder an...
