Category Archives: Daily Computing

Reviews and ideas for computing and software that help you get through the day, and do what you really set out to achieve.

Opening Office 2007 documents in Office 2003 or prior

I had a random thought on my way home today about Microsoft Office 2007. It’s great that Microsoft have adapted the XML format for Office 2007, but it’s not particularly useful when sharing with someone using Office 2003 or prior, … Continue reading

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Spamato Anti-Spam Add-on for Thunderbird

Whilst I’m waiting to board, I might as well take the time to blog to the world how impressed I am with the Spamato Ad-on for Thunderbird. I have not had any much success with the Thunderbird adaptive junk email … Continue reading

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Vista Woes on FlammobammoMk3

I haven’t updated my blog (as promised) about the new computer I’m using these days. I’ve finally got 2 x 120mm Scythe S-Flex Fluid Dynamic Bearing fans, and a Scythe Ninja CPU heat-sink in the system. It is kind of … Continue reading

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Jame Photography

Today James Field borrowed Morven and myself to practise his photography skills for a couple weddings coming up that he’s the photographer for. Morv and I had already been thinking about getting some professional photos done because the only photos … Continue reading

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How to run WhatPulse and Prime95 from a USB stick without internet

I have a computer at home which I don’t connect to the internet. I use it to do a lot of stuff. I’ve always wondered how I could use the time I spend on it to boost my WhatPulse statistics … Continue reading

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mozilla firefox for web browsing

Firefox. There it is. Yes, it does everything Internet Explorer does. No, there are no drawbacks. Yes, it is true that it has difficulty displaying some web pages, but only those that use commands specific to IE – but why … Continue reading

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ganttproject for ganttcharts

Today I want to mention that GanttProject is a great open source alternative to Microsoft Project. It’s good because it’s free, and nowadays possible to import and export to and from Microsoft Project.

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GIMP for digital images

GIMP software is an open source version of Adobe Photoshop. Not quite as good, but good enough for most of us

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everything latex

I originally wrote all this below when I was working on my phd last year and wanted to document my learnings of LaTeX2e for myself and also for my brother. I’ve decided to finally post it on my blog otherwise … Continue reading

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windows desktop eat your heart out!

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