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Tip of the Day: Windows Vista SP2 won't install on a partitioned drive

Tip of the day: Windows Vista clean install doesn’t work on a partitioned drive AND if you then partition the drive after installing Vista, the SP2 will not install as well. Effectively this means you should keep your primary drive as 1 partition … or wait til after you’ve installed Vista and all the service [...]

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Mac OSx Convert – Office tip move between documents

Here’s a quick one for you … how do you switch between a number of open documents in Word or Excel? The quick Mac way is CMD + ` The Windows Office way was Pressing F6 If you still want to do this … on the Mac then you have to press FN + Shift [...]

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Virtualbox 3.0.4 Mac OSx How to share folders

Virtualbox 3.0.4 is a new update released earlier this month. After updating to this new version file sharing between mac os and the guest windows vista has stopped working. Something wonderful has happened and there is a new feature that has been added … Under the Devices Menu there is a new entry for “Sharing [...]

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HOW TO install Virtualbox on Mac osx host & WinXp guest using TinyXP rev 09

Virtualbox is a dream freeware solution for anyone – novice to geek – who wants to run different computers inside their computer … virtual so to speak. Today I’ve been tinkering with getting Virtualbox working on a Mac laptop running WinXP. Virtualbox from Oracle Sun is a freeware, open source virtualisation application .. it comes in [...]

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I'll move to Linux thanks Amarok

Damien says, one of the biggest problems with Linux has always been a lack of strength in its media players. Amarok v2 is now in the pipe and its looking great. The Amarok 1 client which most Linux users had to use (it was the best option) really lacked in its options for managing artists, [...]

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Whats your media player?

I’m starting a reader survey on Media Players – as there are a few assumptions I wanted to prove or understand. 1. If you have an iPod, iPhone or iTouch you use iTunes 2. You use Winamp casue you don’t want to use iTunes or WMP 3. you use windows media player as its the [...]

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