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Tips and tricks to tune up KDE 4.1

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Have you been clinging to KDE 3.5 like a polar bear to the last Arctic ice shelf?
If so, now’s a good time to consider jumping on to the mainland. The recently released KDE 4.1 is a vast improvement over the original.
Hundreds of bugfixes and refinements mean that the KDE desktop is now a [...]

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50 websites you’ll wonder how you lived without

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When it comes to the Internet, we’re creatures of habit – Google for search, Hotmail for email, Twitter to stay in touch and maybe the BBC’s website for news.
This means that we use only a handful of favourite sites, leaving the rest of the Internet unvisited. Let’s put that right. By the time you’ve [...]

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Mac money-savers: 12 essential free Mac apps

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For every big, commercial application there is almost always a free alternative, which can do some or all of the same things the expensive software can.
Thanks to huge strides in technology like OS X and Apple’s Developer Tools and iPhone SDK, far more people are able to develop amazingly sophisticated programs and distribute them [...]

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