A new Lenovo ThinkPad E14 for 2024
Lenovoâs 14-inch ThinkPad E-series is an impressive productivity laptop for the money, with long battery life, a lengthy warranty, and Thunderbolt 4 connectivity. The ThinkPad E series is the most affordable family in Lenovoâs renowned ThinkPad laptop lineup.
This ThinkPad is impressively well built considering its budget status; Lenovo says it passes MIL-STD-810H standards for durability. The lid is aluminum while the chassis, though plastic, is reassuringly sturdy and resists flex well. The keyboard is what always sells ThinkPads for me, and the ThinkPad E14 doesnât miss a beat here. Its snappy, direct and the two-level white backlighting looks sharp.
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2024 Recovery options for Windows PCs
If you're having problems with your Windows 11, 10 or 8.1 PC, the link below can help you decide which recovery option to use.
If your PC isn't working well and you recently installed an update. Or your PC isnât working well and itâs been a while since you installed an app or changed system settings. Your PC won't start or is still loading. Your PC won't start, you haven't created a recovery drive, and resetting your PC didn't work. Your PC won't start and you haven't created a recovery drive. Or your PC won't start and you've created a recovery drive. You want to reinstall your previous operating system. Your PC isn't working well and you recently installed an app. You suspect your device has been infected. It's time to go to: Problem Solver
Free Spelling Checker 2024
This free online spell and grammar checker is based on LanguageTool, an open source proofreading software. Many languages are supported, including Australian English!
To check your text, simply type or paste it into the field provided and click the âCheck textâ button.
Sentence Checker will detect syntactic, grammatical, and stylistic errors, suggest replacement options, and explain its decision in detail. When using Sentence Checker, you can check the text of any complexity, because our databases contain sufficient rules, to make sure that working with your text is convenient and fast. Instructions on how to use our tool are also provided.
Apple's Watches Series 9 for 2024
The new Apple Watch Series 9, has the most powerful chip ever. Its display is twice as bright, and by using gestures, you can use your Apple Watch without touching the screen.
Custom-made Apple silicon makes Apple Watch Series 9 more capable, intuitive and faster. The dual-core CPU has 5.6 billion transistors â 60 per cent more than the S8 chip. A four-core Neural Engine processes machine learning tasks up to two times faster. It enables a number of innovations, including the double tap gesture.
Using Gestures makes the Apple Watch even easier to use at any time, especially when your hands are full. Just double tap your index finger and thumb together to answer a call, open a notification, plus play and pause music. Learn more here:
What is Sydney Gateway?
Sydney Gateway will be the completion of missing links in the Sydney motorway network to improve traffic flow. This high capacity network is vital for supporting the growth of our communities, places and economy. This will ensure people and goods can move around our city and beyond, safely and reliably.
Sydney Gateway is key to this vision and will greatly improve the way we travel to Sydney Airport and Port Botany. It will deliver major new toll-free connections from the Sydney motorway network to the International and Domestic terminals.
Sydney Gateway will strengthen Sydneyâs position as a global city, by expanding and improving the existing road and freight rail networks. Importantly, Sydney Gateway will provide a new route for around 10,000 trucks a day. This will help remove trucks from Mascot, reduce travel times and congestion, and return local streets to the community. For now just Click, relax and enjoy a series of virtual tours without the traffic chaos.
Browsers to suit all tastes:
Web surfers are spoiled for choice with new or updated browsers seemingly to appear every other week. Every new release brings more features and claims of greater security and speed.
Perhaps the best outcome from all modern browsers is that they display web pages in the standardised W3C format. Thankfully, no longer do we see notices like "Best displayed in a IE-xyz browser".
The following list shows the recent desktop share plus the official download sites for the latest versions.
StatCounter Jan. 2023 desktop share:
- Google Chrome - 69.8% - Download Chrome for Windows
- Safari - 15.7% - Safari for Mac Computers only
- Mozilla Firefox - 3.3% - The new Firefox
- Internet Explorer - 2.1% - Internet Explorer Downloads
- Microsoft Edge - 2.0% - Getting the most out of Microsoft Edge
- Opera - 1.35% - Try the Opera browser
- Vivaldi - 0.04% - Download Vivaldi
Review: Apache OpenOffice 4 vs. LibreOffice 4.1
Not so fast, LibreOffice -- OpenOffice has a shiny, new, and improved major release of its own
For some time, LibreOffice seemed to have taken the crown from OpenOffice. Libre had commandeered a sizable portion of the OpenOffice developer base, introduced a faster revision cycle, and attracted a large number of users, thanks in part to LibreOffice now being the default productivity suite for many Linux distributions.
But OpenOffice has staged a comeback, with a new revision to the left of the decimal point. Challenging LibreOffice's spanking new version 4.1, Apache OpenOffice 4.0 boasts a splashy in-document user interface, hundreds of bug fixes, and many more features big and small. Is it enough to take back the crown?
Source and full report: InfoWorld
Puran Utilities are still Free for non-commercial use in 2023
Puran Utilities produce a set of more than 20 software utilities that can help you get the best performance out of your computer. It also provides an automatic and a one click solution to keep your computer clean and error free. Puran Utilities are compatible with Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/10 including 64 bit versions.
This is the short description of how some of the utilities can help:
Disk Check: Fix errors, recover bad sectors on your hard disk with chkdsk.
Uninstaller: Uninstall software that you are not able to uninstall otherwise.
Puran Startup Manager: Enable/disable Windows startup items.
Puran Service Manager: Enable/disable Windows services.
Puran Disk Cleaner: Find and delete junk files from your computer.
Fix Shortcuts: Automatically fix or delete broken shortcuts.
Puran Registry Cleaner: Clean Windows registry for better performance.
Puran Registry Defrag: Defrag and compact Windows registry for better performance.
Puran Defrag: Automatically defrag and optimize your hard disk drives.
Puran Duplicate File Finder: Find duplicate files on your computer. It's customizable and extremely fast.
Data Recovery: Recover data from your damaged media like scratched DVDs, VCDs, BLU Rays etc.
Puran File Recovery: Recover deleted files from your hard disk, pen drive, memory card.
Puran Wipe Disk: Wipe entire disk or just free space so that no files on it can be recovered.
Maintenance Wizard: Run selected utilities in a pre-defined order for getting best performance out of your computer.
Check out the many Puran Utilities here...