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• Older Geeks: Keeping it clean

  Posted on September 20, 2021 at 02:44 CDT by Chris Husted • Comment in the Forums

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  By Chris Husted

  Hidden away in a small town of 5,000 in the Missouri Ozarks is a small computer-repair shop run by a pair of self-confessed “super nerds” who over more than a decade have amassed some 4,000 freeware programs that all satisfy one steadfast credo: “No ads, no crapware, no b.s.”

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.36.0 (2021-09-20).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.36.F (2021-09-20).

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• Meet Fred, the empowerer

  Posted on August 2, 2021 at 02:45 CDT by Chris Husted • Comment in the Forums

  ISSUE 18.29 • 2021-08-02

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  By Chris Husted

  If a single organization were approaching five decades of experience in educating people about computers and helping them to solve problems they were having with their PCs, it would be called an institution.

  Fred Langa, who writes for AskWoody, is just that.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.29.0 (2021-08-02).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.29.F (2021-08-02).

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• Woody Leonhard – A new life in paradise

  Posted on March 15, 2021 at 01:08 CDT by Chris Husted • Comment in the Forums

  ISSUE 18.10 • 2021-03-15

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  By Chris Husted

  Is he having fun yet?

  Late last year, after 28 years of publishing everything everyone needed to know about Windows, esteemed AskWoody founder Woody Leonhard retired. He disappeared from our screens, but never drifted far from our thoughts. That voice we had grown accustomed to, calling out Windows for its shortfalls – sometimes with a roar, sometimes a grumble, but never a whimper – had gone.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.10.0 (2021-03-15).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.10.F (2021-03-15).

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