Patrick Havens on June 29th, 2007

Now I love Google Desktop at work. I use it daily trying to find one customer’s file or another. Now I love its search, I’m not totally huge on its sidebar because it makes my work machine slowly stagger to a stop at work. But at home I also use the Google [...]

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Welcome to Living in the Whine Country. A new design has been up with only a few reported issues. It is still under going development, mainly with speed tweaks. But if you notice an issue, please feel free to let me know, so I can get it fixed. Also let me know if you have any story ideas you want me to cover.



Patrick Havens on September 5th, 2006

ReactOS 0.3.0 Released!
This release holds a few records - it is the most long-awaited release of ReactOS, it is the release which was preceded by 3 Release Candidates instead of usual 2, and at last ReactOS release never had so much changes since the last one.
This release’s main feature is the networking ability - it’s [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 30th, 2006

ArtRage 2
ArtRage, the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 19th, 2006

There are many corporate environments that require Outlook, and a number of other people who just rely on it. But Outlook can be expensive (not everyone buys Microsoft Office). So even though I use Thunderbird somewhat and have been switching over to Google based offerings for this type of thing, I was [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 9th, 2006

Google Browser Sync
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions. For more info, please visit our FAQ.
Please note: Google Browser [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 5th, 2006

Well I had reported earlier that Google had bought an online Word Processer in Writely, and that they would only need a spreadsheet to be a major worry to Microsoft.
Well wait no longer Google Spreadsheet is here. (and currently giving a 404) But click read more for a sneak peak.

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Patrick Havens on April 13th, 2006

PortableApps.com

What Is A Portable App?
portable - carried or moved with ease
app - a computer program like a web browser or word processor
A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive, iPod or other [...]

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