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I’ve been trying out Evernote over the last week or so. To be honest, after I installed it, it sat there for a few days, before I really started to use it.
Now, however, I have started to make use of it, and it is proving useful. I like the OCR within images and handwritten [...]

“From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!” came the statement from Mozilla, making this the record download of software in 24 hours, and earning them a place in Guinness World Records.
Mozilla’s servers crashed on the day due to the very high demand, but [...]

There was a short delay, due to the inevitable server overload, when more than a million people (I’m sure) tried to get a copy all at the same time.
A couple of hours later, and I downloaded a copy, installed on a Windows machine here in a couple of minutes. It certainly seems to run a [...]

Computers are like cars.
A quick job almost always ends up taking hours, and something that you think will be a simple, inexpensive quick fix, entails buying half a new machine.
Well, perhaps not quite, but it often seems the case.
Anyway, I’ve been canniba lizing some of the many old boxes I had laying around here.
Kathy [...]

More time wasted with sucky Windows.
I have a client who wants her computer restored back to life. The XP OS has gotten so corrupted the only sensible course of action is to re-install it.
However, as Microsoft have this real stupid OEM system, where only a copy of Windows for a particular brand will work on [...]