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CRM, Customer Relationship Management, is popular among marketing and sales people but is often a waste of time for small businesses because it does not work with the real money generating applications in the typical business. Choose the type application most important to your business, then choose the best software of that type, then choose a CRM application that works with your first choice. Here are examples of effective combinations and the secrets to using the software for zero dollars.

Theme development follows fashions similar to the clothing industry. Themes designed for big desktop screens waste space equivalent to to the 1980s big hair, big teeth, big dress with lots of ruffles style. Now we need sports skin slick themes for the small screens on handhelds, smartphones, netbooks, and Web connected microwave ovens. Unfortunately many professional Web theme suppliers are trying to sell their 1980s Dallas themes slightly trimmed to an Olivia Newton-John Physical style.

Powerquest Drive Image and PartitionMagic programs were the best disk imaging combination for a while. Now there is a free open source competitor.

Déjà Dup Backup Tool is a graphical front end for duplicity and works on Linux.

Audacity is the standard for anyone working on sound using Linux or windows based computers. There are other applications out there for specialist use and a small number of video applications have good sound editing. Start with Audacity.

Slow and difficult to use. Now for the bad points about K9copy. K9copy is a Linux program that can do a number of things including backing up DVDs but this page is strictly about K9copy used for backing up DVDs and as a Linux replacement for DVDdecrypter.

Ubuntu 11.4 is now on all my netbooks, notebooks, and desktop computers except for one token Windows computer. 11.4 is a great replacement for Ubuntu 10.10 after you make two small adjustments.

Another Windows user goes Linux according to an article I read today and hundreds of articles before that. Conversion is possible and is common. Why do people change? What makes the change easy? What makes the change successful? Do you save any money changing from Windows to Linux?

Install Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.1, and PHP 5 in Ubuntu Linux 11.4 desktop edition for local testing of your Web sites and for Webmin. This should work the same for Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.4.