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70+ Best Free Alternatives to Paid Software - The Unlearner

70+ Best Free Alternatives to Paid Software - The Unlearner
Image Editing Pixlr – Fully functional alternative to Adobe Photoshop. (Web, Windows, Mac)GIMP – Another Photoshop alternative. Photography Polarr – Great alternative for Adobe Lightroom. Video Playback & EntertainmentVLC – The video editor everyone loves. EditingOpenShot – Fully featured video editor, alternative to Final Cut Pro/Premiere Pro. Productivity Productivity ToolsWunderlist – The best task-management app ever, period. For more amazing stuff – free apps, great books, and more useful websites – like us on Facebook. Office SoftwareGoogle Docs – A complete alternative to Microsoft Office in the cloud. Messaging Slack – Say goodbye to email. Music fooBar – My favorite personal music player ever. Utilities Everything Search – The fastest search for your computer, ever. Image Editing Pixlr – Fully functional alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Photography Playback & EntertainmentVLC – The video editor everyone loves. Productivity Messaging Slack – Say goodbye to email. Music Utilities Related:  Tools

OverAPI.com | Collecting all the cheat sheets FRAME Cloud Platform · Run any software in a browser List of emoticons A simple smiley This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's mood or facial expression in the form of icons. The Western use of emoticons is quite different from Eastern usage, and Internet forums, such as 2channel, typically show expressions in their own ways. In recent times, graphic representations, both static and animated, have taken the place of traditional emoticons in the form of icons. Emoticons can generally be divided into two groups: Western or Horizontal (mainly from America and Europe), and Eastern or Vertical (mainly from east Asia). Western The emoticon in Western style is written most often from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees. Eastern Eastern emoticons generally are not rotated, and may include non-Latin characters to allow for additional complexity. Unicode characters References

101 Amazing PC / Internet Tricks no one told you before Below is a list of one of the best hidden 101 Computer tips and tricks to impress your friends which you have been unaware of so far in life. Here you go. You can search Google timer in Google for a timer with alarm Search This in Google for Direct Mp3 Links intitle:index.of?mp3 Your song name here Use your Chrome Browser as Notepad quickly. Just copy the text below to the address Bar. data:text/html, <html contenteditable> Note: You can also bookmark this to use it anytime. View Hidden Password in Browser Visit to see How Google View You Read: 50 more Google search Tricks Rename Subtitle File same as movie name and VLC will load subtitle automatically every time you open Movie Rename the subtitle file same as movie name (Kept in same folder) and you do not need to load subtitle everytime you play the movie. In your PC just create a folder with the name given below and access everything GodMode. To Undo an Undo Just press CTRL+Y Send SMS Online (USA Only) Bored !

Access Any Website Or Forum Without Registering Visit any forum or website to find something useful and they will ask you to register. Every time a forum asks me to register, I simply close the site. You would probably do the same. Before I begin, you should know how things work. First grab the add-on for Firefox called ‘user agent’ here and install it. Select User Agent from the left sidebar and click Add. crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com and in user agent field type: Googlebot/2.1 (+ as shown in the screenshot below. Select Google Bot as your User Script by going to Tools > User Agent Switcher. Now browse any website or forum without registering. Advertisement

12 Lesser-Known Google Projects That Are Absolutely Amazing Google revolutionized the Internet by making the global brain easily searchable by anyone. In addition to search, Google has created all kinds of different tools like Google Maps, Gmail, Analytics, Android and Apps that many of us use everyday. One of the reasons why Google has consistently released new innovative project is because of their 20% time policy, which gives many of their employees one day a week to experiment with new concepts and ideas. In this post, I want to show you some of most fascinating websites that Google employees have created and how you can use them as educational tools. 1. Tap into the visual intelligence of the global brain by visualizing search trends as they are happening right now in every country in the world. 2. Explore the ancient and modern wonders of the world like Angor Wat, the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge and the Great Barrier Reef in high-res photos and 3D Street View style imagery. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Circumventing Censorship | VOA Special Report (Or, "How I learned to start worrying and start protecting my online privacy") By Doug Bernard | VOA News Illustration by Steve Fuchs At its best, the web can turn your computer or mobile device into a research library, a movie theater, a medical tool or a means to connect with just about anyone else on the planet. It’s an open, safe place to be who you are and grow into something new. At its worst, the Internet can become a dark and threatening place - a tool for thieves to steal, corporations to spy and governments to oppress. As the saying goes, the Web is what we make it. Information may want to flow freely, but there are plenty of forces that want to dam up the web’s flow of information and punish those who try to fight back. In particular, some governments are working hard to wall off parts of the Internet by filtering and blocking what people can see. Think of this project as something like a primer on Internet circumvention and anonymity. Keep in mind

100 Portable Apps for Your USB Stick for Windows and macOS Portable apps, as opposed to traditional software, don't require installation onto a computer. Their entire data set sits nicely in one folder, and terminate completely once closed. Whether you prefer using them for a clean machine or like to carry around a flash drive with loads of programs, portable apps are pretty awesome. We've collected the best portable apps, but there are so many more out there. Grab your spare flash drive or empty cloud storage and fill it up with this mega-list of 100 portable apps. Check out PortableApps.com's Platform to make the installation easy. Accessibility (3) Balabolka -- Text-to-speech program for reading on-screen text aloud. Audio and Video (9) AIMP -- Portable music player and library manager. Development (5) Database Browser -- Lets you connect to and manage any database, anytime. Education (8) Artha -- A full thesaurus, no internet connection needed. Games (14) Graphics (9) AniFX -- Full-featured mouse cursor editor. Instant Messaging (5)

This code can hack nearly 90 percent of credit card readers in circulation This is a facepalm moment for the credit card issues and retailers. Nearly all credit card readers in United States are still using the default password which can be easily hacked into by cyber criminals. The passcode, set by default on credit card machines since 1990, has been exposed for so long there’s no sense in trying to hide it. It’s either 166816 or Z66816, depending on the machine. Using either of the two passwords, an attacker can gain complete control of a store’s credit card readers, potentially allowing them to hack into the machines and steal customers’ payment data. Researchers at Trustwave, a cybersecurity firm were quite flummoxed to find that retailers still use decades old passwords for credit card readers. Device makers sell machines to special distributors. “No one is changing the password when they set this up for the first time; everybody thinks the security of their point-of-sale is someone else’s responsibility,” Henderson said.

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