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New Operating System for Asus EEE 900A

One of my children bought an Asus EEE 900A. Its a very attractive little machine. 9 inch screen that is surprisingly easy to view, a small but ergonomic keyboard, and, because this device uses solid state storage, it is silent and has excellent battery life. The downside, the disk drive is only 4 Gb. Before [...]

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Tue, October 13 2009 » Gadgets, Marketing, Office productivity, Software, Technical » No Comments

Quickbooks 2006 to stop sending email after May 31, 2006

I think Quickbooks is a great program. I use Quickbooks 2006 and I have resisted upgrading to a later version because it does all I need, fairly well. One of the features I do not like is the email invoice function. Instead of being able to send an emailed invoice directly, you have to send [...]

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Thu, March 19 2009 » Software » 5 Comments

BudURL

I just set up an account with BudURL. Like some similar services it takes a long URL and shortens it. The twist with BudURL is that is includes analytics behind each link that you create. So, for example, you could include a BudURL link in a Twitter Tweet and then see analytics on any clicks [...]

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Sat, January 17 2009 » Marketing, Software, Technical » No Comments

Removing blank lines from OpenOffice labels

Its nearly Christmas and last night I created my Christmas card address labels, a task I do not overly like. I am a big fan of OpenOffice, it does everything that I need, everything that MS Office does that is of any importance and sometimes more, for example you have a huge amount of flexibility [...]

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Wed, December 3 2008 » Office productivity, Software, Technical » No Comments