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I’ve been working on/repairing computers for a long time now. The following is a typical scenario: I’ll get a call from a customer whose computer is running really slow/bad. I go out to their house to take a look, and I notice that they are running Norton Antivirus. (Note: I have no ill will towards Norton in any way, this is just what I have found from personal experience.) More times than not, I take Norton off of the system and do some other housecleaning and things begin to magically work right. I’m not sure what the reason is for this but I have seen this scenario so many times, I’ve lost count. You might be thinking, “Well I have to have some virus protection on my computer”. Well, your right, but Norton, in my opinion, is not the answer. I have been using Avast for about 5 or 6 years and it works great. And on top of that, the home edition (the one I use) is absolutely free. I highly recommend that you give it a try.

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|> brandon

Here another great little app that’s a real time saver. Do you ever find yourself inputing the same data time after time. If so, Texter will make your life much easier. It does this by allowing you to create keyboard shortcuts for commonly used text. For example, let’s say that you type in your email address 15 times during the day, we’ll use my address, btodd3@gmail.com. Well if you were using Texter you could setup a keyboard shortcut to automatically enter it for you. Let’s call the shortcut “em”. As you can see in the picture below, you click the plus sign at the bottom of the Texter window and it will allow you to enter your new shortcut.

After we enter the shortcut, and the text we want to insert when using the shortcut, we need to chose a “trigger”. This is the key that will be pressed after the shortcut to “activate” it. So after setting up our “em” shortcut, any time I want to insert my email address I type:

em {tab}

Note: Don’t spell out tab, just hit the tab key after you type em.

Congratulations you’ve just set up your first Texter shortcut!

This is only a small part of what Texter will do, you can also setup scripts to enter multiple lines of data and much more.

Download here.

If you have any questions you can email me, or you can go to the author’s post about Texter and get some good info there.

|> brandon