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One of my colleagues was reading up on Windows 7 and suggested I should talk about the impending release of Windows 7 and the stopping of support for Windows XP next year. Don't panic! Windows XP support is commited by Microsoft until April the 8^th 2014. However, by this time all my savvy readers will have nothing to fear as you'll be using Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice, ClamAV and all those tasty little OpenSource treats that have matured into reliable and dependable technologies. So, lets keep it free!

 

Tags: videolan | VLC | Free | video | DVD | decrypt | play

Carrying on with the theme of last weeks article, lets keep it free and focus on a few of those good Free alternatives out there.  Lets start with Picasa from Google.  Picasa is a photo management tool which makes dealing with photos much easier then trawling through directories.  If you're like most pople and have a digital camera, than changes are you have a large quantity of photos strewn all over your computer then Picasa is a tool you must consider.  I've used many different applications for managing photos and they have all failed in some area badly for me.  

Tags: Picasa | Free | Google

The internet is a great source of information, software, movies, music, culture, news, blogs and just about everything that doesn't need to be tied down. 
It is also a great source of free things, without having to resort to piracy or downloading dodgy material. I thought I'd list some sites that offer great free knowledge and information.

Tags: Stuff | Google | Tips | Free

I quite often get people wanting to know a few things about using a computer, this varies from relatively complex tasks like setting up VPN's, remote Access and security to simple questions like “Where did I save my file?” or “How do I format this word document?”.  For the complex tasks you need a computer professional, the last thing you want is an insecure VPN or Wireless network, for the simple tasks we have the Otago Polytechnic course “Computing 4 Free”.

Tags: Mirror | Upgrade | Skills | Free | Polytechnic | Computing