{"id":300,"date":"2019-12-08T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-it-guru.co.uk\/?p=300"},"modified":"2020-09-16T21:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:09:48","slug":"new-life-for-an-old-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/12\/08\/new-life-for-an-old-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"New Life For an Old Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you got an old computer or laptop that is starting to get a bit slow and you are thinking of throwing it out in favour for a newer model? Well stop and read on.<\/p>\n<p>We have found that we can breathe new life into old desktops and laptop computers by installing Linux or Ubuntu that is less processor and memory hungry.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed you can then download programs like Open Office for letter writing and Mozilla Firefox for internet browsing. There are loads of free programs that will work on Linux \/ Ubuntu, just do a search in Google.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu can be obtained from <a title=\"Get Ubuntu Now\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mozilla Firefox from <a title=\"Get Firefox Now\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla-europe.org\/en\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Open Office from <a title=\"Get Open Office Now\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gimp Photo Editing Program for ubuntu from <a title=\"Get Gimp Now\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thunderbird Email from <a title=\"Get Thunderbird Now\" href=\"https:\/\/download.mozilla.org\/?product=thunderbird-2.0.0.23&amp;os=linux&amp;lang=en-GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Need a Media Centre Program get it <a title=\"Get Myth TV Now\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mythtv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Need to edit Video Try Cinlerra <a title=\"Get Cinlerra Now\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heroinewarrior.com\/cinelerra.php3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Play Music using amaroK get it from <a title=\"Get Amarok Now\" href=\"https:\/\/amarok.kde.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So as you can see you dont need to stick with Windows to get things done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you got an old computer or laptop that is starting to get a bit slow and you are thinking of throwing it out in favour for a newer model? Well stop and read on. We have found that we can breathe new life into old desktops and laptop computers by installing Linux or Ubuntu&#8230;  <br \/><a class=\"excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/12\/08\/new-life-for-an-old-computer\/\" title=\"ReadNew Life For an Old Computer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-technical-bulitins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}