Windows 7 on the Acer Aspire One

Earlier in the year, we acquired an Acer Aspire One netbook which ran on the Linpus Lite cut down version of Linux.  At first, I thought the idea of trying out some Linux would be interesting, but actually I’ve found it very frustrating.

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Chrome OS – bye bye Windows?

Hip hip hooray, Google have confirmed that they will release their Chrome Operating System in ‘the second half of 2010′.  Could this be the biggest challenge to Microsoft’s dominance of the OS market in a very long time?

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Free flash from Wix

I wanted to put a very simple website up on one of my other domain names, just providing some contact details etc, and didn’t want to spend any money.  The domain name host had a free sitebuilder, but the result looked very old fashioned, and included a big advertising block, which I didn’t want.  So I had a look around and I found Wix.

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What’s that gadget?

I love gadgets.  Love buying them, playing with them, and occasionally even using them for some helpful purpose!  There’s plenty of ways to find out about new gadgets, but I like the idea of a community website for people to add details of their gadgets and review them etc.

Gdgt is a new site doing just that.  Continue reading What’s that gadget?

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