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How to Install Arial Black Font in Ubuntu 11.04

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I like Arial Black. There is something compelling about that big and chunky font that makes me always want to include it in my designs. However, it is a Microsoft Windows font and it comes thus as no surprise that it isn’t available by default on a new Ubuntu desktop installation. Never fear though, not all is lost… it turns out that installing some of the Microsoft Windows core fonts isn’t necessarily that difficult after all!
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Create Excel 2007 Spreadsheets using PHP

For the quickest implementation time in terms of churning out Excel 2007 spreadsheets in your PHP-based project, look no further than the brilliant PHPExcel project! Continue reading

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Free Microsoft Anti-virus for Windows

I’ve now found myself shifting over to Microsoft’s very own offering, namely Microsoft Security Essentials – free to use for anyone running a genuine copy of Windows. Continue reading

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Where do I find that old Word 2003 Command in Word 2007?

However, Microsoft did of course replace it back in 2007 with the updated Word 2007 which formed part of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite – which of course lead to countless headaches thanks to the radical overhaul of the menu functionality and look and feel when it came to the new offering. Continue reading

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Set IIS 6.0 To Allow .exe Downloads

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How do I configure IIS 6.0 to allow .exe files to be downloaded? Continue reading

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