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Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
This post on Freewaregenius lists a number of useful Windows utilities that will make your Windows desktop even better. Check out the rest of their site for other useful freeware programs. When I first thought of this post, I more … Continue reading
Explaining the Excel Bug
Joel on Software examines the recent Excel 2007 bug. By now you’ve probably seen a lot of the brouhaha over a bug in the newest version of Excel, 2007. Basically, multiplying 77.1*850, which should give you 65,535, was actually displaying … Continue reading
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The software awards scam
This site did a little investigation into those software awards that are given out by download sites. The obvious explanation is that some download sites give an award to every piece of software submitted to them. In return they hope … Continue reading
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Downloads: Qtpfsgui (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X)
If you are interested in HDR imaging, give this open source tool a try. It helps you create and tone map HDR images from bracketed exposures of a scene. Link There is also a Qtpfsgui Flickr group where you can … Continue reading
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Downloads: Thunderbird 2
Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 was released with an improved UI and some new features like Saved Searches and Vista support: Link Release notes
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Downloads: Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier (Windows, Linux)
Use this useful utility to recover files from damaged disks. Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The … Continue reading
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Firefox Inside Firefox
Run another instance of Firefox inside a tab with this trick. … With all these favorites inside Firefox, How about Opening Firefox inside Firefox? Not bad huh? and its really easy too just type in this url in a new … Continue reading
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Freewaregenius
This is an invaluable site that reviews numerous freeware apps. My mission: To replace as many retail/shareware software as I can with first rate FREEWARE alternatives, such that one day every installed program that I use will be FREE. But … Continue reading
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Downloads: TrueCrypt 4.3 (Windows, Linux)
The latest update to the TrueCrypt encryption utility is now available. We are pleased to announce that TrueCrypt 4.3 has been released. Among the new features is full compatibility with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista, support for devices and file … Continue reading
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Firefox Tip: Shift-Delete mistyped autocomplete suggestions
This is a handy tip from Lifehacker: You accidentally typed liefehacker.com into Firefox’s address bar, and now it suggests that whenever you enter “li.” Remove mistyped URLs from the fox’s suggestions by selecting the entry in the list and hitting … Continue reading
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Downloads: Sysinternals Suite (Windows)
You can now download all of the Sysinternals utilities as a single package. The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not … Continue reading
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Downloads: RocketDock (Windows)
This is a pretty slick Windows version of the Mac OS X application dock. Freeware. Link (via Lifehacker)
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Downloads: DVD Flick (Windows)
This little open source application for Windows allows you to author a video DVD from nearly any video file. See the Lifehacker link below for a step-by-step guide on using the application. Supported file container formats are, amongst others, AVI, … Continue reading
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Downloads: PuTTY 0.59 (Windows, Unix)
Grab the latest version of the PuTTY SSH client and associated utilities. Link (via Digg)
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Downloads: Paint.NET v3.0 (Windows)
The latest update of this free paint program was just released yesterday. Check it out. Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, … Continue reading
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Windows Tip: Control groups of windows on the task bar
Lifehacker has a useful tip for temporarily grouping several windows on the Windows task bar so that you can tile, minimize, close, etc., all of the selected windows as a group. Reader Andreas wrote to tell us about a neat … Continue reading
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Table of Linux Equivalents
This is a very comprehensive list of Linux equivalents for Windows software. One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. Newbies usually search for Linux analogs of Windows software, … Continue reading
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Downloads: PC Repair System (Windows)
Daily Cup of Tech has put together a small set of utilities that might be useful for repairing and maintaining PCs. You just throw them onto a 32MB or larger USB key and you can carry them with you wherever … Continue reading
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Firefox – A $50+ Million Cash Cow
A brief article on how profitable the open-source Firefox project has become. You see that little Google search box on the upper right? If you use that box to make a search and click on one of the Google ads … Continue reading
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