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Companies who do right by customers

November 25, 2008

Despite my nickname as “Bootleg Jane“, when I find a company that earns my trust, I stick by them i.e. I buy products from there. A case (or two) in point: Amazon and the IDM company that makes UltraEdit. About 2 days ago, I had to reformat my laptop due to a botched driver installation [...]

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Firefox’s instability

November 22, 2008

Okay, here’s a rant: I’m thisclose to switching to Google Chrome from Mozilla Firefox. As a matter of fact, I would switch if not for the fact that Chrome was responsible for me having to reformat my computer several weeks ago (seriously), I would. However, I’m writing this post because I think I may have [...]

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Tools of the trade

November 19, 2008

So, I’m really just getting into the spirit of using add-ins with Outlook. An interesting feature of my life is the fact that my email contacts and my real-life contacts don’t have a huge overlap. I’m somewhat introverted so plugins that tout a huge bunch of social networking features don’t go over too well with [...]

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Why I should win a copy of Camtasia Studio 6

November 18, 2008

Many thanks to Gottabemobile.com for hosting this contest. I hope my video gets picked although the odds are not very good due to the fact that it’s a random selection. My only regret from this (if I lose) will be that my painstaking video might have been in vain. Nevertheless, I’m glad I took time [...]

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Computer woes et al

November 16, 2008

So, I helped my father-in-law to download & install Logmein free (which comes with an inital free Logmein Pro trial period). He has had a rash of relatively “benign” PC infections, but I had been worried for a long while because his system was essentially a sitting duck for the Big One i.e. some rootkit, [...]

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Holy Hannah!

November 6, 2008

I’m sure you knew what I was really going to say, but I’ll go ahead and say it again: holy fuck. If you suffered from the dreaded error C00D11B3 where neither Windows Media Player nor MCE can play DVDs with protected content, you are in luck if you read this page. By trial and error, [...]

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much ado about nothing

November 2, 2008

I scour Techmeme several times daily and titles like this “30 Seconds to boot up? That’s 29 too many” make me scratch my head. I love innovation just as much as the next person, but can we be realistic about things sometimes? I’m not on the cutting edge mostly because it’s expensive to be “cutting [...]

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