If you’re looking for a simple hassle-free photo album generator for Windows then I recommend you take a look at Porta. I have been using it for a few weeks now and I’m very impressed with it. It’s simple to use, fast and produces nice looking photo albums. Best of all – it’s free, although [...]

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Following on from the hiccups I had with Windows Vista I’ve been experimenting with Ubuntu Linux for about a week now and so far so good. Installation was a breeze and all my devices such as webcam and external hard drive work without problems.

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I managed to install Vista build 5536 which is a pre-RC1 version on a spare hard drive yesterday. The installation process went smoothly without problems. The UI is very slick and has some nice features and navigating around the system doesn’t seem any slower than Windows XP.

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Up until recently I have been using my Flock browser to subscribe to RSS news feeds. This works fine. I really like the layout and style but it’s no good if I’m on the move and need access to my news feeds from another computer. A few weeks ago I started exploring web based alternatives. [...]

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I’ve been playing around with Microsoft Flight Simulator X a bit this week. Overall not bad. I was pleased to see my PC handling the graphics very well, even with the detail set to high on various settings. I was worried the graphics overhead may have increased from the old version but at first glance [...]

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Currently I store my RSS feeds in Flock which works great. The only downside to this is that if I use another computer then I don’t have access to my feeds. With that in mind I decided to give bloglines a go which enables me to access my feeds from any browser. Overall I found [...]

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