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		<title>Yet another useful Windows shortcut</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/12/11/yet-another-useful-windows-shortcut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the week, I needed to go to a client to upgrade the laptop that they&#8217;d given me for doing work for them. The cause was their migration from Windows XP to Windows 7. Office 2010 also came with the now set up and they replace the machines with new ones too. As part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little look at Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/11/06/a-little-look-at-windows-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a little while but I have managed to set up a VirtualBox virtual machine in order to take a look at the Developer Preview of the next version of Windows, something that I and others continue to call Windows 8 though Microsoft has yet to confirm the name. When I tried the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Change?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/09/19/all-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could 2011 be remembered as the year when the desktop computing interface got a major overhaul? One part of this, Windows 8, won&#8217;t be with us until next year but there has been enough happening so far this year that has resulted in a lot of comment. With many if not all of the changes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deauthorising Adobe Digital Editions software</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/03/12/deauthorising-adobe-digital-editions-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My being partial to the occasional eBook has meant my encountering Adobe&#8217;s Digital Editions. While I wonder why the functionality cannot be be included in the already quite bulky Adobe Reader, it does exist and some publishers used it to ensure that their books are not as easily pirated. In my case, it is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A spot of extension bother with Firefox</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/12/08/a-spot-of-extension-bother-with-firefox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One keystroke that I use a lot when typing on a computer is Control+Shift+[an arrow key] but I found myself in the awkward position of it not working in Firefox anymore. The nuisance level was enough to set me investigating in the name of resolving the problem. Using the following command to start Firefox saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we need to pay for disk partitioning tools anymore?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/29/do-we-need-to-pay-for-disk-partitioning-tools-anymore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My early explorations of dual-booting of Windows and Linux led me into the world of disk partitioning. It also served a another use since any Windows 9x installations (that dates things a bit&#8230;) that I had didn&#8217;t have a tendency to last longer than six months at one point; putting the data on another partition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring the MBR for Windows 7</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/25/restoring-the-mbr-for-windows-7/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/25/restoring-the-mbr-for-windows-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my explorations of dual-booting of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10, I ended up restoring the master boot record (MBR) so that Windows 7 could load again or to find out if it wouldn&#8217;t start for me. The first hint that came to me when I went searching was the bootsect command but this only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manually adding an entry for Windows 7 to an Ubuntu GRUB2 menu</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/21/manually-adding-an-entry-for-windows-7-to-an-ubuntu-grub2-menu/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/21/manually-adding-an-entry-for-windows-7-to-an-ubuntu-grub2-menu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent endeavour of mine has been to set up a dual-booting arrangement on my Toshiba Equium laptop with Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 on there side by side. However, unlike the same attempt with my Asus Eee PC where Windows XP coexists with Ubuntu, there was no menu entry on the GRUB (I understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cautionary tale regarding Excel spreadsheet sharing</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/10/a-cautionary-tale-regarding-excel-spreadsheet-sharing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I encountered a reason to be wary about create shared Excel spreadsheets when one ballooned in size. It ended up growing to around 130 megabytes before I tried turning off sharing to see what happened and the size shrunk to under 200 kilobytes. From this, it would appear that the version control information was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One reason why you cannot merge cells in Excel</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/10/23/one-reason-why-you-cannot-merge-cells-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2010/10/23/one-reason-why-you-cannot-merge-cells-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One handy thing that I didn&#8217;t realise that you could do with Excel until the last few months was the ability to share an open workbook between users and collate any changes that are made (it seems that a form of version control is behind this). From what I have seen, Excel seems to manage [...]]]></description>
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