Author Archives: Alvin Trusty

Google &as_qdr=d

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

The next time you use the Google, add this to the end of your search URL: &as_qdr=d Instead of this: http://www.google.com/search?q=”how+to+create+a+great+powerpoint” Make it like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=”how+to+create+a+great+powerpoint”&as_qdr=d Google then adds a time sensitive drop down box at the end of your … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 8.04… day two

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

After nine hours of downloading from the mirror at OSU, my connection was lost.  I tried one of the torrents just to compare the download time. Twenty minutes later, I had the ISO on my hard drive.  What a great … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 8.04 Released… so what

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I have been waiting to get my hands on this release of Ubuntu.  I got up this morning and went to the Ubuntu site. This Site is Temporarily Unavailable It was that way until the afternoon.  At the rate my … Continue reading →

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All human knowledge… in your pocket

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I haven’t posted very much about my iPod Touch.  I can assure you it has become one of my most used pieces of technology.  Today I added something to it that is mind boggling. I installed wikipedia on my iPod … Continue reading →

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Scribd

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Here is something I stumbled across today. I was looking for a way to dump a lot of files into an online location so that those files would be easy to access from other sites. My files are Word docs, … Continue reading →

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