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Speed Up Your Chrome Browsing. Google Will Help.

Sluggish Browser? Here's How to Speed Up Chrome | PCMag.com. Malware, Adware, sluggish extensions, and just general junk, tends to clog up the works in all software, including Chrome. Over time, you may notice that your browser seems sluggish, and pages load slowly. There can be many reasons for this; but, Google has included clean up options in the browser over time. There are solutions to each problem in this useful article from pcmag. Check it out, and speed up your day.

Windows 10 Gets Better With May Update

Windows 10 May 2019 Update review: Simple changes make Microsoft's OS run smoother | Windows Central. The October 2018 rollout of the 1910 major update to Windows 10 didn't go well. But, the bugs have been worked out, and the update is now available to all. If you haven't had it pop up yet, you can download it manually in Windows Update. This is a pretty complete article covering all of the feature updates. If only for computer security purposes, every computer user should install each OS update. But, this one seems to make Windows 10 smoother, and prettier.

Life Can Surprise Us - WordPerfect In 1993

Sam Cardon / Kurt Bestor - Innovators (CD, Album, Enhanced, Promo) | Discogs. It was serendipitous. It was 1993, and I was excited to get the new Windows version of my favorite wordprocessor, WordPerfect. It came on a bunch of 3 1/2 inch floppy disks, and took over an hour to install. So, I resigned myself to spending an hour watching my computer screen, bored out of my mind; but, excited to think about how much more productive I would be with producing letters, motions, and pleadings in the future. Then, I noticed that there was a CD in the box. Hmmm...what could this be? Well, when I put it in the CD tray, I was blown away. It was a collection of beautiful music, highlighted by Kurt Bestor on the piano, and Sam Cardon on the Harpsichord. I was transported into another world, and I was actually hoping the install would go on longer. You can hear what I heard, and still hear, at the link. It is still one of my favorite albums, 25 years later. Sometimes, life can surprise us. Don't stop exposing yourself to surprises.

Nuance Power PDF Advanced - What Are You Using?

Nuance Power PDF Advanced. If you are practicing law in Florida, you absolutely, postively, have to have a powerful PDF application. Efiling is now mandatory in all Florida counties, and PDF/A is the standard for filing pleadings and documents. But, how to take a Word or WordPerfect document and create a PDF/A document for filing? The most cost effective way is to spend $99 to $179 on Nuance's excellent PDF software. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 10 and touch-enabled input. It supports the new industry standard PDF 2.0 format. You can sign and send PDFs for signature with DocuSign, the leading eSignature service. You can collaborate in real-time with other users on your LAN. You can turn any web page into richly interactive PDF files with automatically embedded hyperlinks. I create pleadings in WordPerfect, and, with a keystroke, convert them into PDF files. Then, using Power PDF Advanced, I can sign them digitally, and email them, file them, and do just about anything I need to do.

Everything - Do You Know Where Your Files Are?

Everything - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com. Can you find, in ten seconds or less, the pleading you wrote for Client X in 2012? I can. This little utility is free, and bypasses the complicated, hard to use, Windows searching engine. It is limited to file names; but, we all name files with names or terms that we can recall. The Client X Motion to Strike, or the Client Y Motion for Summary Judgment, etc. This little search utility sits in first place on my taskbar, and I use it every day. Recently I had to draft a Motion to Strike Affirmative Defenses in a case, and I just typed "Motion to Strike" in Everything. Instantly, I had two pages of file names with "Motion to Strike" in the title. Essential free software. You're welcome.

What Flavor Do You Want? Office 365 Or Microsoft Office?

What is the difference between Microsoft Office and Office 365?. I have an annual Office 365 subscription for my family. Each of us has access to all of the Office products for $99 a year, and, they all update themselves automatically. However, this flavor of Windows isn't for everyone. If you are a single user, and want software that you can use forever without subscription costs; then, Microsoft Office is for you. Frankly, as a WordPerfect user, I don't care what you use. I consider my family's use of Word to be a personal failure. But, alas, many of my legal counterparts also use Word, so I have to live in the jungle with them. What's in your computer?

Playing Around With Ubuntu 18.04

11 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' - OMG! Ubuntu!. Linux is the operating system ordinary people never heard of, or used. However, it is the basis for Microsoft Windows and Apple's OS. Ubuntu is a front end graphical interface designed to be used by us ordinary people; and, while you can get to a Linux command line interface, and learn the commands, most of us don't want to. The newest version of Ubuntu looks even easier to use than past versions, and I have loaded it on to my previous daily driver, the Samsung 2 in 1 ATIV. Slim and light, this little notebook computer is fast and great to use. So, I will spend part of the holiday doing these 11 things with the system. Once it is tweaked and ready, I intend to explore how much real world lawyering can be done with a Linux computer. Any lawyers out there using Linux?

Install A New OS Over Lunch

Install Ubuntu desktop | Ubuntu tutorials. I don't go out to lunch much. I prefer to work as long as I am interested, and then do something else. Today, I am downloading Ubuntu Linux version 18, and installing it on my old Samsung ATIV computer. Since I switched to the Microsoft Book 2, the ATIV has been sitting in a briefcase unused. Windows 10 had crashed on it, and I wasn't using it. So, in a bit, I will have a brand new Unix machine with 256 GB of speedy SSD storage, and a Core i7 processor. Cool.

#TBT - Einstein Loved Windows XP

The good old days.

Microsoft Brings Android App Mirroring To Windows 10

Microsoft brings Android app mirroring to Windows 10. Most of us use our phones for most photos and texts. But, getting those photos and texts to our windows computers can be a hassle. Since all my photos and texts are in the Google cloud, or are sent to Google Photos in the cloud, I can access them within the Chrome browser. But, for many Windows users, building app mirroring to Windows 10 is the answer. Microsoft promises more robust Android mirroring in the future. But, for now, Microsoft is innovating, and this is a good sign. Sorry, Apple users, you can't do this. Just another reason to switch to Android. Boom.