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Paint.NET

Posted on May 22, 2006 by: Rob van der Linde
Filed under: Reviews

Paint.NET is a free image and photo manipulation program designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, Windows XP, or higher. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Originally started at Washington State University as a senior design project, and intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

At Ynui Technology, we love Paint.NET 🙂 and can see that it has great potential, it currently sits somewhere in between Photoshop and MS Paint, yet is easy and intuitive to use (and it's FREE!). The program can be downloaded from the Paint.NET website. You will need the Microsoft .NET Framework installed first, if you haven't already got it installed.

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Ten brown kiwi birds will be released in Rimutaka Forest Park

Posted on May 17, 2006 by: Shane Maru
Filed under: Events

Ten brown kiwi birds will be released in Rimutaka Forest Park this weekend, each kiwi will have a radio transmitter attached while a well organised group of volunteers (GVN) join the Department of conservation (DOC) responsible for maintaining two trap lines aimed at catching kiwi predators. Its been 100 years since we had kiwis pecking around a protected area down the coast. This isn't just a extremely huge thing for Wainuiomata but the whole of New Zealand and its happening right in our backyard.

Saturday the 20th of May 2006.

Event begins 10:30am at Wainuiomata Marae for welcoming and blessing of the kiwis.

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Photos taken of Wainuiomata

Posted on May 6, 2006 by: Shane Maru
Filed under: Announcements

Just to let you guys know, I have uploaded some photos of Wainuiomata to the gallery. If you want to, you can tell your friends where some photos of Wainuiomata are on the net. Perhaps you might be chatting with friends over the net for example, you can now point them to the gallery.

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If you have any photos you would like to share phone or email us, we maybe able to help.

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Mozilla Firefox: Faster, Safer, Better

Posted on April 28, 2006 by: Rob van der Linde
Filed under: Reviews

Mozilla Firefox is a free, alternative web browser to Internet Explorer. It has been around for a while now, and has gained a lot of popularity lately. "Faster, Safer, Better" is Firefox's new tagline, and it definitely lives up to that name. Ynui Technology highly recommends users should at least try out Firefox, we know you'll love it. 🙂

Why should I switch from Internet Explorer, and why Firefox?

There are many reasons to switch to Firefox, but the number one reason is spyware. You may or may not have heard of spyware, but this is the number one problem on the internet today. To put it short, spyware is advertising software that installs on your computer without your knowledge and bombards you with popup advertisements.

Internet Explorer has a history of security flaws that often allowed spyware to install automatically on a users computer without their knowledge. This makes the infected system run very slow, crash a lot, and constantly generate popup advertisements.

Firefox offers the following features:

  • Tabbed browsing (Most people find this a very useful feature)
  • Built in popup blocker
  • Built in google search
  • Much faster than IE
  • Supports extensions (Install extensions into Firefox to enhance it's functionality)
  • Better standards support (The Ynui site actually works better in Firefox than IE)
  • Improved security against spyware and viruses

Why not give Firefox a go. You've got nothing to lose, Internet Explorer remains on your system, so you can go back any time. However you may not even want to go back, after you have tried it.

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Note: Firefox will prevent new spyware from installing on your system, however if your system is already infected with spyware, this will need to be cleaned out as well. We can help you remove the spyware from your computer.

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Free Office Suite

Posted on April 13, 2006 by: Shane Maru
Filed under: Reviews

Are you familiar with Microsoft Office? There is an alternative available, which is completely free! That's right, you can download Open Office, a fully-featured Office Suite that has everything you'll need - Word processor, Spreadsheet, PowerPoint and also a Database.

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Website Update

Posted on April 3, 2006 by: Shane Maru
Filed under: Announcements

Ynui Technology would like to let you know that a complete redesign of the website has been underway and we are pleased with the result so far. A new feature has been added to the site, in which you can add your own image icon to your comments. This feature is called a Gravatar, which we use it in our Ynui News section. Please feel free to check the comment for this article, which shows an example Gravatar icon.

There's still content to be added to the website, but we thought it would be a good idea to upload what Ynui Technology has done so far and hope to complete the site over the next few weeks.

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Back online

Posted on February 21, 2006 by: Shane Maru
Filed under: Announcements

Been busy preparing our business over the last few months. We have this site back up and running and currently redesigning the look of the website. Very pleased to be back online and look forwarded to whats to come 🙂

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Ynui Chat

Posted on October 9, 2005 by: Rob van der Linde
Filed under: Announcements

Over the past week, we have been working on creating the Ynui Chat chat room. Ynui Chat is fully functional now, but it is still in BETA stages and needs some more testing by the public. More features are expected to be added in the future.

You need to be logged in to use Ynui Chat. To read more about the technical side on how Ynui Chat works, click the link below to read the rest of the article.

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