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Entries Tagged as 'software'

Trouble with Torrents (uTorrent) on Windows Vista with McAfee

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

My mother recently bought a shiny new dell with Windows Vista on it. I recently got my fingers on it, and it’s pretty darn alright. But I had one problem:
starting uTorrent was causing the system to slow down and also drop http traffic…
After consulting a friend we found out he had the same problem some […]

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Tags: software · windows

Lessons Learnt After Developing a Web Application - Design and Implementation

May 28th, 2007 · No Comments

This spring I have been doing some work on a web application, part of a deliverable in one of my courses (INF5270).
We were a team of four writers/programmers/designers/whatever needed. The deadline was about an hour ago, and we delivered our system 3 hours before that for once. So, for personal reflection I thought I’d […]

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Tags: development · project organization · software · web design

SumatraPDF - a small gem

May 14th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Thought I just would share a link to a small gem (literaly):
SumatraPDF. It’s a blazing fast PDF viewer without any bells and whistles, just pure PDFviewing goodness. It can’t select text, but I seldom do that anyways.
Give it a try :-)

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Tags: gem · reminder · software

Essential Software for a Fresh Windows XP Install

May 6th, 2007 · 4 Comments

As a personal reminder, and possibly helpful for other people, I’d thought I’d post what software I spend hours installing after hours of installing Windows XP.
Security

Spybot S&D - Cleans out spy and malware
Avast! Anti virus - Free, and good(?)
Avira Anti virus - Free, and good(?). Has a annoying screen popping up each time it updates […]

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Tags: reminder · software · windows