Monthly Archive: June 2011

Jun 24

Green Batteries – A cautionary tale

Recently – well last year, I bought some of these new batteries, rechargeable yet will retain their charge for about a year if not used… Where as the older Nickel Cadmium ones will go flat in less than 30 days… Perfect! A Green battery that last as long as an ordinary battery… BUT watch out! …

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Jun 22

Fed up with Windows – Try Ubuntu!

If, like me, you got along with Mr. Gates’s offering called XP and are wondering where to go to next, can I suggest Ubuntu? You probably have XP, or worse still Vista, and even contemplated Windows 7… But all seem to need a bigger more powerful computer to runĀ  it. I have used various alternatives …

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