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		<title>Lessons Learned from Building HTPCs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strictly speaking this should probably be ‘lessons learned from building and running HTPCs.’&#160; My media centre has been the hub of home entertainment for the last 12 months, so I thought it was probably time to do a rundown of the things I learned along the way.

Silence is Golden      Making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/203/lessons-learned-from-building-htpcs/</link>
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		<title>A Low-Budget HTPC Build</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of the reason for the Building a Cheap Media Centre article was to use some of the research I had done leading up to building a media centre for my brother (as a birthday present).
Anyway, I thought it was time to get around to writing up my experience with that build.&#160; 
This build came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/200/a-low-budget-htpc-build/</link>
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		<title>How to Connect your PC to your TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The rise of streaming media services such as the BBC’s iPlayer and downloadable content means more and more people are looking to connect their computers to their TV so they can view it sat on their sofa rather than hunched over a computer or sat at a desk.
There are a number of different options for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/197/how-to-connect-your-pc-to-your-tv/</link>
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		<title>HTPC Modifications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back I moved my HTPC to Windows 7 so I thought I would do a quick write-up of the experience.&#160; I wasn’t unhappy with Vista, it was running well, but I had done a W7 install on a media centre I built for my brother and I was impressed with some of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/190/htpc-modifications/</link>
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		<title>Top Tips for Staying Safe Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lifehacker has put together a comprehensive list of tips for staying safe online.  Worth a read for anyone who isn&#8217;t too sure online.
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		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/188/top-tips-for-staying-safe-online/</link>
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		<title>Useful Apps for Better Productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I’ve found a number of applications that help save me time and effort and I find living without them a complete pain so they’re some of the first things installed on any new computer or after a reinstallation.&#160; Even better, these are all completely free.
I thought I would highlight them in case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/187/useful-apps-for-better-productivity/</link>
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		<title>Getting Your Touchpad Recognised in Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I installed Ubuntu on my laptop recently, it&#8217;s an old Fujitsu-Siemens S6120D, but despite finding others who got it working, my touchpad was just being recognised as a generic PS/2 mouse when I used:
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
in a terminal window.
After a lot of searching I found a post that indicated removing and &#8216;finding&#8217; the mouse made it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/180/getting-your-touchpad-recognised-in-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Tips to Save Money When Buying Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital Inspiration has a great article on saving money when buying software online.  I&#8217;d certainly agree with their points about comparing prices, signing up for newsletters, etc to get a special offer, upgrade versions and academic versions.  
I&#8217;d also add it&#8217;s worth checking if your company has any deals.  Microsoft, for example, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/177/tips-to-save-money-when-buying-software/</link>
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		<title>Zenphoto Flickr Importer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote recently about the fact that I did really use my Flickr account enough to warrant keeping it, plus I had space on my hosting accounts to store my photos, so I decided to take them back into my control.  The issue with that was I had put a lot of work into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/170/zenphoto-flickr-importer/</link>
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		<title>Speed Up Your Web Pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has released a whole microsite of speed tips for web masters.  Some of them cover topics such as gzip and caching that, while well worth doing, are sometimes outside the control of someone using normal shared hosting.
Some simple tips that should be easy to implement are:

CSS: Using every declaration just once
Properly include stylesheets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/166/speed-up-your-web-pages/</link>
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