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Computer Systems Smart devices QR codes Android Android_App_Recommendations Apple iPad_App_Recommendations iPhone_App_Recommendations Linux Linux at PCUG Centre Dual-Booting Linux_Distribution_Recommendations Netbook_Linux_Installation Windows File sharing between Win7 and XP File sharing between Windows and other OS Win7 Snipping Tool Win7_Hardware_Recommendations Two Page Display Windows 8 Editing Windows 8 Usefuls

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Peripherals DVDs and Bootable USBs Booting from Removable Media Using dotISO Files Monitors & Projectors Using an External Display or Projector with a Notebook Printers Cleaning Printheads Parallel Port Printers Sharing Printers via CUPS Scanners Scanning Slides using CanoScan

Software Backup Interesting_Techniques General Interesting_Programs Image and Photo Editing Office OpenOffice Several freely downloadable or commercially available derivatives of OpenOffice are now available: freely downloadable LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/ Apache OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ now (again) available for Mac OSX sold commercially IBM Smartsuite All use the same document format and can import/export .DOCX documents as well. Rpeters15:34, 31 August 2012 (EST) - - Vector Drawing