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NirSoft’s WakeMeOnLan scans your network and shows which devices are switched on, making it easy to wake or manage them remotely. Version 1.95, updated in November, adds five extra columns that let yo

In your answer to Tom Rathbone’s question about ebook formats (Issue 724, page 69) you could have mentioned the app ReadEra (https://readera.org). I installed it on my iPad earlier this year and it su

Justifying your text makes multi-column or print-style layouts look neater. Version 25.8 of LibreOffice Writer, released in August, lets you set how loose or tight your justified text appears, improvi

One of the most challenging parts of genealogy is reading old documents – particularly digital scans of handwritten material, such as census records, wills and parish registers. If the text is hard to

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