TechLog for October, 2009

Installing Flock on Ubuntu 9.10

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As you all know Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was released today. I upgraded my beta release to the latest and greatest and really wanted to install the Flock Web Browser. I have used Flock before on Windows and really liked it, and figured if I want to lose Microsoft all together I need to figure [...]

Picasa 3.5

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I have been using Google Picasa off and on for some time now; Having just recently upgraded my version to 3.5… I was surprised to find a new addition.
New in Picasa 3.5 is name tags, where picasa scans all your photos, identifies the ones with faces and groups similar faces together. In my testing this [...]

Spare USB Drive anyone?

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Are you stuck with a legacy USB Drive?
Whether or not you have an extra flash drive lying around, you could be putting it to better use. If you use your USB flash drive daily then why not make it automatically lock and unlock your PC? You can do it for free and rather simply using [...]

Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

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Windows 7 will be released next Thursday, October 22nd, here are some great keyboard shortcuts to help you navigate around the new OS. Want more on Win 7? Visit Microsoft.com

Win+T
Toggle through taskbar items

Win+P
Cycles through networked projectors display mode

Win+Home
Minimizes all windows except current

Win+Spacebar
Show Desktop (Makes open windows transparent)

Win+Up Arrow/Down Arrow
Maximizes/Minimizes current window

Win+Left Arrow/Right Arrow
Tiles the windows [...]