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Posted Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:03 PM
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Posted Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:07 PM
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This editorial seems familiar
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I do like the Toaster on display though. If I could get a toaster like that, that would be sweet
The only toasters I could think of are the zip utility and printkey. But then again, I have my preference of winrar. The software has to work correctly, and play nicely with others. I usually spend a good amount of time before settling on software.
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Posted Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:38 PM
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External hard drives - they store data and they plug in externally. However they don't burn bread or leave crumbs.
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Posted Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:39 PM
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Hmmm, toasters.... Well SQL Server, Office (Especially Excel and Outlook) would be the generic software i would always use but its not quite a toaster because I dont just use it for a minute at a time. They are more like underpants. You dont need to really try out different types, but you do use them pretty much all the time.
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Posted Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:47 PM
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gary.humphryes (2/4/2010)
External hard drives - they store data and they plug in externally. However they don't burn bread or leave crumbs.
If we include hardware in the list - that would be easy. My toaster would be thumb/flash drives
Jason
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Quite an interesting topic to start my day - even more when I start thinking about the toast bread itself...
Actually, I think it's the best to use those tools you are used to and you know how they are working. Why spending time searching something new if you don't really need it? But it's definitely worth digging a while and start a bigger research for new soft- or hardware if you have new requirements or you're not happy with your current solution. Then, it's up to you how much time you'd like to invest and this will probably depend on the benefit of the new gadget.
But now, it's definitely breakfast time...
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Posted Friday, February 05, 2010 1:20 AM
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mmmmm toast, and here I am with a bowl of weetabix
Hardware, for me it has to be the mouse. I can spend a good half hour pondering over which one to buy next, but they all do the same thing, move, point, click. I now have one with 7 buttons and a scroll wheel that tilts, and all I ever use are the basic 2 buttons.
Software? Microsoft Word. All I want to do is write a letter or report, and I'm pretty sure that I'm still using exactly the same functions as Word 6 as I am in Word 2007.
But that is a pretty cool toaster, now I'm off to scour the web for one. Thanks for destroying my productivitiy for today
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Winrar is my toaster, has always worked nicely.
Hardware is never my toaster, I build my own computers and I research all the parts and read the reviews and also research if the components has good drivers and how often a company upgrades them. That way my computer never has problems, until I installed windows 7 where Auzentech has no decent drivers for their soundcard auzen x-fi prelude 7.1 which I spent ~200 Euro on a couple of years ago, those drivers are awful so be aware ^^ but also be aware of creative, worst drivers ever. However, a user of the card had himself put together a bundle of existing drivers that seams to work great so that's nice, except I'm really annoyed with the company for not doing this yet, after all win 8 will probably be released summer 2011 or so and win 7 has been out a long time now.
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Posted Friday, February 05, 2010 1:31 AM
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MS Internet Explorer...however we do have other options to surf the net I still prefer IE as it is avlbl on any Windows box.
Search Engine -- Of course Google
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Word, Excel Visio, Outlook and lately Notepad++, which is brilliant and handles larger text files than MS products, although I had to think about that one the other day when I did an update and lost my ftp facility. Oh and WinDiff for comparing scripted databases, stored procs and tables.
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