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Do you hate looking for files on your computer?

Do you hate looking for files on your computer? Is it a totally jumbled mess? Sure you can use increasingly good search solutions, like Google Desktop, but it just doesn’t feel as good as going straight to your files, or seeing all your related files listed together where they belong.

I adopted a simple [...]

Some basics on personal computer security

My sister pinged me on facebook today to ask the following question:

Hiya bro…I need your help. I need to know what anti-virus program to put on my laptop (window 7)…i’m like really uneducated about this whole thing. Tell me what to get and how to install it properly.

I decided I’d do better [...]

Tracking Ward Music Selections

In June of 2008, the user “CelticWildFlower” posted an interesting question in comment to another posting.

Do you know if there are any great forms to use when planning the weekly music? I’d like to have a more organized way of keeping track—mainly so I don’t repeat my personal favorite hymns!

I failed to [...]

How to edit a PDF file on linux

A couple of hours of searching and trying various solutions, I finally was able to edit a PDF file on linux.

Problem: A colleague scanned a doc and wanted it posted to the intranet as internal-only, confidential, etc. I suggested that such a disclaimer should appear in the PDF itself, not just on the [...]