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Create PDF files

Your using open office, word or any number of other applications and you want to create a pdf file. Well here are a couple of methods I’ve tried on Windows XP, Windows 7 RC and Ubuntu Linux. For Windows users you can use the gpl licensed PDFCreator, but I recommend you use the 0.9.6 version and [...]

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Nero 9 basic version free download

A basic version of Nero 9 is now free to download. If you use an old version still for basic burning of dvd’s or cd’s, then this is great news. Personally I am not a huge fan of nero, but many are. To download you need to sign up for email updates. http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php

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Open and Edit Adobe PDF files in OpenOffice

It happens, you get emailed a pdf and you need to edit it and the original word version is with someone who is on holiday / another time zone / left the company four years ago and became a traveling salesmen in the himalayas. Um okay, perhaps not but you know the frustration. Over at [...]

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Ping! – Creating an image of your hard drive partition

I wanted to test the latest Windows 7 RC on a laptop for a couple of hours only. To save me the trouble of reinstalling the previous OS, applications and files I decided to use Ping! So what is Ping? Ping stands for ‘Partimage Is Not Ghost’. It enables you to create images of partitions [...]

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