In the really-cool-free-utilities category is Synergy. If you have more than one computer on your desk, with a forest of keyboards and mice, then you need Synergy!
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Alright, the screen and keyboard are extra, but still this is really good! I’m a web developer and IT consultant, so I immerse myself keeping up with the latest and greatest in the IT world, but I don’t sell hardware – until now! This little find has not yet hit our shores and is so good that I have set myself up as a reseller to help make it available.
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Too often when working with someone else on something we fall into the trap of endless revisions of a document being emailed back and forth. Usually you inadvertently grab an older copy at some stage and lose a complete set of edits! Google Docs is a totally free online solution!
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So, your brand new PC or laptop fair flies - at first - then, over time, just seems to get more and more bogged down. What’s more the tools out there that may help seem high-end-techno-nerdish and geeky. Not only is there a simple solution, you can easily tune up your PC using free utilities and in many cases get a better result than using expensive commercial products.
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I was at the birthday party for the son of a mate recently. In an effort to avoid some of the noise and confusion of “pass the parcel”, I struck up a conversation with one of the other dads in a quiet corner. As he quizzed me about work, I was on a roll with the usual pat answers about web design and IT consultation, when he caught me out with a question from left field “so in such a rapidly changing area, how on earth do you keep across everything and up to date with the latest?”
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