avast! 5.0 is a free antivirus program available for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. It is a fairly full featured virus scanner similar to AVG free. Some of its key features are: Silent/Gaming Mode Anti-rootkit protection Automatic updates Boot time scanning (32 bit only) Scheduled scanning Wake up for scan (wakes up Windows …
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It seems like I’m always losing track of some small sheet of paper with a recipe from my Mom written on it. An old fashioned box of recipe cards just doesn’t suit my style, so I thought about creating a database using OpenOffice.org’s Base. Being short on time and motivation, I decided to look for …
Continue reading Organize Your Recipes with Gourmet Recipe ManagerLast night I wanted to watch a media file that I had on my ext4 Ubuntu Karmic disk partition. My media PC is running Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) which can’t read ext4. Even if it could, I haven’t yet bothered to set up network sharing from my Karmic installation. So I figured I would just use …
Continue reading Flash Drive FrustrationToday, Microsoft released a new, free (free as in Free Beer) antivirus program called Microsoft Security Essentials. This new program is available for Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista and Windows 7 32-bit, and Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit operating systems.
Continue reading Microsoft Releases Free AntivirusThere is an article on InfoWorld today listing the author’s 10 favorite FOSS applications for Windows. One of the great things about Open Source is that someone can take that source code and compile it for another platform. These free programs are a great way to spread the word about the vast world of Free …
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