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Software Reviews

The Unity Desktop – a Review with Tips

Posted on May 9, 2011 by daleV

Alright, I’ve played with it, and read the instructions from the Help icon on the Launcher.  I’ve been at it since it was released on April 28th.  Let’s talk about it. At first, the Unity desktop is clunky compared to … Continue reading →

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The Rise of LibreOffice

Posted on March 15, 2011 by daleV

The most widely used, open source, free, office suite application was, and I guess for the moment, still is, OpenOffice.org with over 100 Million users.  LibreOffice is a relatively new kid on the block, and for a reason, which we’ll … Continue reading →

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MartView – PDF Reader – a Review

Posted on September 4, 2010 by daleV

When we talked about getting free ePubs in my previous post, I mentioned that Google has millions of books available free for download on line.  The problem was that most of the publications were in the PDF format, not the … Continue reading →

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The Nook versus the Kindle – a Review

Posted on August 15, 2010 by daleV

By now most everyone has heard of eReaders. They may have not gotten an eReader, but they’ve heard of them. I’ve been looking at them now for awhile, and decided not to be an early adopter, and wait for the … Continue reading →

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MySQL Workbench – a Review

Posted on June 27, 2010 by daleV

The MySQL Developer Tools Team have just released their Release Candidate 3 of MySQL Workbench. This release fixed another 70 “issues” they missed in the last release candidate 5.2.22 RC 2, where they fixed 76 bugs, and follows the previous … Continue reading →

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