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Re: Firefox, P.C's, Macs etc.

Subject: Re: Firefox, P.C's, Macs etc.
From: Pete Hughes
Date: Jan 03 2006 19:21:02
No need to spend £80 on M$ Office. OpenOffice does everything MSOffice
does, but it's FREE! Download at <www.openoffice.org>www.openoffice.org
<http://www.openoffice.org/> There are versions for Windoze, Mac, Linux etc.
Come to think of it, a lot of my software is now freeware - I use AVG
anti-virus (free version available at www.grisoft.com
of ZoneAlarm firewall (www.zonelabs.com
It's pretty basic but does everything I need it to (i.e., block
intruders) and is much, much less demanding on memory than Norton I used
to use.
I also use Firefox and Thunderbird (Mozilla's email client) as I found
using Mozilla (combined browser and email client) tended to 'lose'
emails. There are some great plug-ins and extensions for Firefox and
Tbird - I recently added a Thunderbird extension that translates all
your spam emails into the pidgin Swedish the chef on the Muppets speaks.
For example (from David's post):
/Es oone-a ooff oonly 5 peuple-a in Breetein vhu roon Mecs (it oofftee feels leeke-a thet unyvey...)
I'd sey try oooot Fureffux, oor, meegrete-a oofer tu Mec und booy a noo, sheeny und utterly cuul iMec G5 und get Sefferee-vheech is Mecs ferseeun
ooff Ixplurer (?!). 
Bork Bork Bork!
Yes, lueds ooff hessle-a veet Mecs tu ixchunge-a feeles und oopee ettechments itc. Yuoo suun get used tu it, und it becumes ieseeer veet
time-a. Elsu, it's vurt it tu see-a zee luuk oon zee ooeeks fece-a in P.C. Vurld vhee he-a treees tu sell yuoo ENOTHER P.C. furoos upgrede-a, vheech,
ooff cuoorse-a, yuoo dun't need.... 
Bork Bork Bork!/

Totally pointless I know, but still quite amusing :-D

Regards

Pete Hughes

tca.uk@xxxxxxxxx.co.uk wrote:
As one of only 5 people in Britain who run Macs (it often feels like that anyway...)
I'd say try out Firefox, or, migrate over to Mac and buy a new, shiny and utterly cool iMac G5 and get Safari-which is Macs version
of Explorer (?!).
Yes, loads of hassle with Macs to exchange files and open attachments etc. You soon get used to it, and it becomes easier with
time. Also, it's worth it to see the look on the oiks face in P.C. World when he tries to sell you ANOTHER P.C. virus upgrade, which,
of course, you don't need....
BUT, speaking as a totally non-tecchie - in nearly 3 years, No viruses, Trojans, Worms etc. (that I'm aware of) and the equivalent of
about a cubic metre of extra office space available to fill with other junk, as I don't have that bleedin enormous grey box that all
p.c.'s seem to need.
You soon get used to the Mac, and if you buy the Student version of Office for Mac (£80), it does what the p.c. does too, without
crashing and becoming virused.... 

This is whats called "an unsolicited testimonial".......

Happy New Year all.....

Dave

David Harris.

Tree Care Associates.
Hampshire.


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