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Firefox Preferences - When you open Firefox, your default browser of choice, you will no doubt have set it to run with some preferences found by going Tools -> Options. These are only the tip of the iceberg. Want to know more?

The High Price of Enterprise Software - It is interesting how software vendor price their products. Fundamentally, a CR-ROM is worth about 25 cents but when it gets shrink wrapped it is worth half a million dollars. Want to save a few bucks? Here's how.

The Cost of Records Management Software - Time was you could acquire a good DOS based records management program for a couple of thousand bucks. Today many vendors would have you budgeting for a project as if NASA was planning the initiative.

So you want to be a Software VAR - When starting a computer business you have several directions you can take. You can develop your own product, you can sell services exclusively, or you can sell someone else's product. At Thranite I sold someone else's product for six years, these are the lessons learned.

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