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The League of Moveable Type 99 of the best Windows freeware programs you may not know of Due to the popularity of my previous article on Help Desk Geek entitled 99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast, I’ve decided to write another list post with 99 items, but this time on Windows freeware programs that you may have not heard of. If you search for “best freeware programs” or “top freeware apps”, you’ll get lots of lists, but mostly with programs everyone has already heard of: AVG anti-virus, 7-zip, Firefox, OpenOffice, etc., etc. That’s all nice and fine, but what about all those little gems programs that work great, but don’t get all the headlines? In this article, I will try my best to mention as many small name freeware programs as I can that can help make you more productive! It’s a long list, so feel free to bookmark it and refer to it later on. These are written in no particular order! Additionally, some of the programs I mention have free versions that have a few restrictions or are limited in some way. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

RJLPranks.com The free software listed here is perfect for the most mischievous pranks and computer gags. This software is great for playing jokes on those unsuspecting users. Click on any of our computer pranks below to get more information and download them. Add/Remove Pretends to remove all of the software from your machine using the standard Windows Add/Remove Programs. Avoid A harmless prank that makes your Windows start button avoid your mouse! Backwards Mouse Backwards mouse will reverse all mouse movements on the desktop. Blue Screen of Death This prank simulates the Windows Bomb Use the Bomb program when you want to display that dreaded Windows Illegal Operation message dialog box. Click Me Want someone to have fun chasing a button around the screen? ClickStart The ClickStart prank will click the users start button every 45 seconds. Clippy Prank someone with this fake, customizable Clippy assistant. Copy Cursor Replicate the mouse cursor to random positions on the screen. Crazy Num Caps Scroll Cursor Fun

Downloadable Computer Repair CDs | Technibble One of our Technibble forum members, PcTek9, and a handful of other Technibble members have compiled a large list of CDs for various computer repair tasks. In this list, the following types of CD are available for download: Antivirus Boot CDs, Recovery Disks, Hardware Diagnostic Boot CDs, Network Testing/Monitoring, Data Recovery Boot CDs and Special Purpose CDs. Some of these are free to download, some are not. Be sure to read the EULA for the CD’s you download and the applications you use to make sure you are allowed to use them in the manner you plan to use them in. Many of the CDs contain a variety of different programs and some of the applications are free to use as you please, but some of them disallow commercial use. Also, some of these CD’s may set off an antivirus false positive due to their virus removal, password cracking, system file changing nature. Some CDs have been purposely left out of this list as they contain illegal software. Creating Multiboot CDs

Ramsinks BackRex: Outlook Express and Outlook backup tool. Most features in the free version. Mozbackup: Simple utility for creating backups of Firefox, Thunderbird profiles. It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history etc. IMAPSize: A great tool to transfer Thunderbird e-mail to Outlook/Outlook Express (not sure why you would - but it's here). back to top

30 Useful (and Unknown) Web Apps You Need to Bookmark - Page 1 At Maximum PC, computer hardware is our bread and butter. We review it, preview it, and just generally love to talk about it. Unfortunately, hardware becomes less important with each passing day, as more and more software moves onto the internet. We're not looking forward to the day that our PC's become Chrome OS-style thin client, but we have to admit, some web apps are pretty awesome. So to help you prepare for a future in the cloud, we've put together a list of 30 of our favorite web apps and services. We've tried to keep them on the lesser-known side, but a few of the classic have snuck their way in. ScreenToaster ScreenToaster is a web app designed to make life a whole lot easier for every family’s “computer expert.” OpenTable If you like to eat out, you’ve probably heard of OpenTable. Readitlater Have you ever found yourself wanting to read an online article or blog post, but without the time to actually read it? ConvertCenter Issuu Keep reading for more great web apps!

Top 10 Clever Uses for Spare Thumb Drives Heh... Whenever I see the term "thumb drive" used, I think the person using it is probably illiterate. It's a flash drive. There's no real reason to use a "cute" term for it, especially when the "cute" term has the same number of letters and syllables; consonants and vowels and they're in the same places (CCVCC). The best use I got out of my 8GB Corsair Flash Voyager was using it as an Xbox 360 memory unit. There's a far easier way to do portable apps — PortableApps.com. Ninite's a good idea, but you can run portable apps on your home computer, too. The "portable arcade" trick is cool, but you can roll it into the PortableApps thing. Then there are a ton of apps out there that are just natively portable, or have natively portable versions. Be advised however, even the best flash drives aren't so great for portable apps.

Bumptop | Download Bumptop | Get Bumptop for Free How to Save Time by Automating Tedious Tasks with AutoHotkey Have you ever needed to perform the same mindless task over and over on your PC? Instead of wasting hours clicking buttons and hitting keys, this is the perfect time to use your AutoHotkey skills to make your PC do the work for you. Note: This particular example is a real one that I used earlier today to save a small amount of time, but these are techniques that I’ve used many times over the years to literally save myself days worth of time. The Scenario I was trying to go through and clean out a bunch of incorrect broadcast messages in our email newsletter account, when I realized that their interface required me to manually click the Delete button and then confirm it on every single message—we’re talking about 300 incorrect messages that needed to be deleted. Instead of doing that, I created a new AutoHotkey script and quickly wrote up a script to do the work for me. Luckily the Delete button is automatically highlighted, so you can simply hit the Space key to confirm. Loop 300 { }

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The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Photoshop’s wide array of cloning tools is the cause of many of the absolute best and worst works created with the application. In a skilled and experienced hand, these tools lead to phenomenal results. In the hands of a careless artist, Photoshop cloning can be disastrous to the credibility of the result. This article introduces the several cloning tools available in Photoshop and goes over the proper usage and best practices of each. The Clone Stamp Tool The Clone Stamp tool is the oldest and most widely known of the cloning tools. Use the “Option” key (“Alt”) to set the source. To clone out the name on the tombstone above, you would select a source that shares the texture of the area you want to replace. To begin, simply click on the preferred source area while holding down the “Option” key (“Alt” on a PC). To be able to use this tool effectively, let’s look at the relevant settings. Basic Settings: Brush The clone stamp’s basic settings. Basic Settings: Sample The Patch Tool

How to make flash drive that copy's users files silently and automatically Ok there is no order in the file creation process just that you have all files created and on the flash drive. I will start out with the autorun.inf. This file is used when you insert the flash drive into said computer. Also used to change the thumb drive icon to something more acceptable for social engineering. Here is the code, you will have to open a simple word editor such as word, you can past this code into word and edit to your hearts content. [autorun] icon=drive.icoopen=launch.bataction=Click ok to Run game for Windowsshell\open\command=launch.bat a couple of notes the code is between the lines not the lines at all so dont put them in your autorun file. also when you save this file after editing or pasing this in the editor make shure you save it as all files and put a .inf after it... like this autorun.inf look at pic two if you have any issues. You can change the icon to your tastes what you will have to do is find a .png a png file is an icon file.