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	<title>Mike Southby &#187; windows</title>
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		<title>Windows Live Messenger &#8211; Move To The System Tray</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as I want to dislike it owing to all the bloat-ware and popups, I find that time after time I come back to Windows Live Messenger; it’s inevitable really.  You see whilst I try and ask friends to join other networks as I much prefer the client, almost all of my friends as a singularity use Live Messenger.  Of course, I could use another client such as the excellent Pidgin which has multi-platform support but as much as I don’t want to admit it, Live Messenger generally is the best fit for what I need (taking into account not only chat support, but also conferencing and file sharing, both of which I require regularly)...]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering Deleted Files In Windows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago a colleague asked me if I knew of a way of recovering files without purchasing a dedicated file recovery solution.  By all accounts he had some important reports which had ‘gone missing’, though of course he swore that he had not deleted them himself.  My first question was simply why not restore them from a backup?  I can’t stress enough to people the importance of backups, not only for important business documents but also for personal files such as photos and memories which you simply cannot replace.  He looked rather abashed when he told me that he had not been following his backup schedule and the only copy of the reports was on his machine; or at least they were...]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7: My Thoughts A Year In</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been over a year now since Windows 7 RTM came to market, a year which unusually for a newly released Microsoft OS has been in the main, trouble free.  The transition for many business users from Windows XP to Windows 7 has been easier than with previous incarnations, certainly surprisingly simple considering there is a decade separating the two operating systems which let’s face it in the ever changing world of IT, is a huge gap...]]></description>
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		<title>Speed Up iTunes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love it or hate it, iTunes has become the de facto application for music handling on my machine; so much so that it has become one of those applications which I would say I couldn’t live without (OK, so perhaps that takes it a little too far but you see where I am going with this).

The problem is that iTunes is an application that Apple never intended to make for Windows; I guess you could say they became a victim of their own success and found themselves having to recode a Windows version as its popularity (and the popularity of the iPod range) grew.  It works much faster in Mac OS X, which translated could be written as saying iTunes for Windows is a complete bloat ware that takes up far too much RAM and runs slower than it should, certainly this has become more and more apparent as iTunes has been updated and updated.  The cynic in me would start to question whether Apple isn’t too serious about Windows and want to demonstrate to people that iTunes works much faster on Mac OS X because it is a better OS (thereby attempting to increase their sales of Mac hardware and OS X), but with a few simple steps it’s easy to speed things up a little and make iTunes for Windows a little more bearable...]]></description>
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