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Freeware Utility: Amic Email Backup

Amic Email Backup is a handy software tool for Microsoft Windows based PCs designed to create backup copy of your email database. Amic Email Backup can save emails, address book, settings, mail and news accounts, message rules, blocked senders lists and signatures to a single, compact, compressed backup file that can be easily restored when [...]

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Linux eBook: A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Linux is a state-of-the-art operating system, and you need a book that’s just as advanced. Along with being the most comprehensive reference to installing, configuring, and working with Ubuntu, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux® also provides extensive server coverage you won’t find in any other Ubuntu book.
Best-selling author Mark Sobell begins by walking [...]

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Internet Music: Six Web Sites To Learn About Music While Listening To It

WikiFM - not the most beautiful site to look at (let’s be honest here, it’s ugly), but I love it. The premise is very simple: divide the page into two frames, load a Last.FM player in one and show the related Wikipedia page in the other, according to whatever is playing at the moment. I’ve [...]

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Internet Computing: Fastest Browser? Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 / Opera 9.50 Beta / Safari 3.1 Beta

Firefox, Opera, Safari. So many good browsers (IE is not a good browser). Which of them is the fastest? At Browser World they did the test for us, on a clean installation of Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Pentium 4 desktop with 512MB of RAM.
The tests include tntallation time, loading time, memopry usage, page [...]

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Linux: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users

Switching to Linux can be very daunting, most seasoned Linux users experienced that first hand. After all, at some point they were also “noobs”. However, the Linux community has excelled in making the switch for beginners as easy as possible by providing guides, howtos, tweaks, and general advocacy articles. When I first made the switch [...]

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