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Monday, October 26th, 2009

Windows 7 First Impressions

When I first saw that Microsoft were bringing out a new Operating System and reading some of the reviews about the BETA version, I thought I may wait until they’ve reached their first Service Pack before purchasing.
But, in the last two years I’ve had to buy a new PC Tower Unit plus a Laptop and [...]

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Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Getting faster broadband speed

My house is on the edge of the Broadband limits; both BT and my ISP said I should be getting speeds of 1500kpbs, but as much as I fiddled or tweaked settings etc., I never achieved more than around 875kpbs.
The slow speeds affected my uploading and editing of this website and when I was in [...]

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