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While using the computers daily, you come across various interesting software. Me too. I created this section to tell you about it. Maybe it helps.


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Open Source Law office: Today NoteCase

I am opening a new category in this blog titled Open Source Law Office - aimed at highlighting open source software and applications worthy of using in legal activities but definitely useful in other activities too.
Today’s highlight is NoteCase - a hierarchical notes manager designed to help you organize notes in tree-like structure, […]

Written by cdriga on February 14th, 2010 with 2 comments.
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Tools to customize and redistribute your own Ubuntu Linux

This post is actually an email I sent to a friend of mine forwarding him my findings in the field of replicating an Ubuntu installation to many computers and creating a customized distribution. I know there are many similar posts out there but one more would not hurt.
The tools I was telling him about are:
- […]

Written by cdriga on February 11th, 2010 with 2 comments.
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Backup/Restore Windows installation - the free way. Part-1

We all have around us relatives, friends and colleagues who use Windows but are not technical people and are often victims of viruses, trojans and other malware and spyware got from Internet, the network or from inserting infected media into their computers.
For all those around me afraid of these but not able to protect […]

Written by cdriga on January 12th, 2010 with no comments.
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Creating panorama photos under linux

This year I got a new hobby which is photography. As an amateur photographer I wanted to start creating also some panoramas. As the camera does not do that by itself I took a series of pictures of the subject (in my example the city of Florence, Italy).
What I did when taking the photos is […]

Written by cdriga on December 11th, 2009 with no comments.
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Renewed website using b2evolution

Last months defined my activity as attorney at law closer to the IT Laws, Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence related counseling and legal representation in Romania, both for businesses and private persons. Together with this activity I took the step of renewing my professional website “Cristian Driga” Law Office.
The main page is in english and as […]

Written by cdriga on December 11th, 2009 with no comments.
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Tutorial: Extract original images from MS-Word .DOC using OpenOffice.org

This tutorial shows you how to extract the uncompressed images from a Microsoft Word Document using OpenOffice.org free office suite. You can even extract embedded cliparts (like WMF files) or other vector based graphics embedded in the document, in their original format.
This tutorial is inspired by How to extract the images from a .doc […]

Written by cdriga on November 4th, 2007 with 8 comments.
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Live data in your OpenOffice.org Impress slideshow presentations

Are you presenting in conferences graphical charts and figures which continuously change and you have no time to update the slides? All you need is your OpenOffice.org Impress presentation and an active Internet connection to show your audience the live figures your team or your server assembles for you back at home. The data is […]

Written by cdriga on October 31st, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Microsoft is telling you that your Windows XP worths nothing.

Microsoft has listed 100 reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista and to leave Windows XP behind. Thanks Microsoft for the list. While reading the list, a Linux user will mark all those reasons and a few more others as “I already have that in my Linux installation“.
…and after marking them all, he/she will add:

“I […]

Written by cdriga on October 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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DesktopLinux.com: 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop

Kim Brebach enumerates in an article in DesktopLinux.com 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop, I would add: even if you still have Windows installed.
The reasons in short:

Cost
Resources
Performance
No bloatware
Security
Dual booting
Installation
Reinstalling the OS
Keeping track of software
Updating software
More security
No need to defrag disks
A wealth of built-in utilities

The article is located here: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5836989728.html.

Written by cdriga on October 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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Non Windows worlds - Linux stories part 1

6 years ago, I was already tired of viruses, blank screens, blue screens, malware, spyware, the need to reinstall the operating system from time to time and all sorts of other Windows goodies which for a user born in the Microsoft era consume a lot of his daily time.

I decided to investigate if there are […]

Written by cdriga on October 17th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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