New free office suite released.

Sun Microsystems has just released the newest version of their office suite. And not only is it cross compatible with Microsoft Office templates, it is 100% free! I really haven't been under the hood yet but I have taken a quick look and there are many I love. For example, you can now save your docs in PDF format. I love that! The suite includes: writer (like Word) Calc (Excel) Draw (Paint) Impress (Power point) and a bunch of other cool features. If you like Microsoft Office but don't like the price tag, free Open Office is the way to go! www.openoffice.org

"Ready Boost" for Vista & Windows 7

Vista has a pretty nifty feature that allows you to easily add more ram without opening up your computer. This is done by using any type of flash or thumb drive. For example, I am using a SD card out of my camera that has four gigs on it. So combined with my 2 gigs on board, I am running nearly 6 gigs. And the improvement is obvious in some cases and hardly noticeable in others.

To run a test I opened Adobe Photoshop with out the SD card and it took 12.5 seconds to open on average. With the card in it went to 5.5 seconds on average. That's a pretty big difference. To use a ready boost capable device ( like a 9 dollar 2 gig USB drive ) when you first connect it up, Vista will ask you if you want to use ready boost. Just say yes and let windows pick the best size. Now this won't improve gaming and it won't work on more than one device. So add as much in one stick as you can. You can also right click on the drive, go to properties and then the ready boost tab.

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