99 of the best Windows freeware programs you may not know of - StumbleUpon 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.
In Pictures: Online computer tutorials based on pictures. Free. Essential Life Lesson #1: Over is Right, Under is Wrong & Current Configuration As part of our ongoing effort here at Current Configuration to make your life not only better, but also 10% more crunchy, we’re offering you this first installment of what will be an ongoing series of Essential Life Lessons. Kicking off this series will be a critical but even-handed examination of a common misunderstanding that occurs in a realm of many misunderstandings: the bathroom. Put simply, there is a right way to hang the toilet paper, and a wrong way. Toilet paper has a natural curve, a way of being that lends itself to certain orientations on the toilet paper spool.* If handled with skill and knowledge, it can provide an abundance of both sanitation and comfort, quilted together in each square of pillowy ply. Below are examples of the helpful and fruitful over-hung method on the left and the annoying and detrimental under-hung method on the right. Notice the dramatic difference in the amount of visible toilet paper. Wasted paper, frustration, the destruction of our forests.
Old Software Downloads for Windows, Mac, Linux and Abandonware Games Life-Changing Books: Your Picks We asked our readers what books made the biggest difference in their lives, and here’s what they had to say. The list below tells you what books shaped their lives and why. 1984 – George Orwell 1984 “was the first book I actually enjoyed reading. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson “Wow this book is incredible. Ariel – Sylvia Plath “After reading through these suggestions, I realized there’s a big hole: Poetry! Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut “This book reignited the pilot light of my imagination like no other book had done in quite awhile. Crooked Cucumber – The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki “Although I am not practicing Zen (yet), this book is like my Bible in that I plan to always read over it and reflect upon the messages therein. Disturbing the Peace – Vaclav Havel “I read it as a junior in high school, picked up on the bargain pile at a B. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer Great Expectations – Charles Dickens Hiroshima – John Hersey –“Epic.
The Best New Features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 Photoshop CS6 has some great new features that designers are sure to love. Upgrading from CS4 or CS5 is simple and straightforward, and the new tools are intuitive, practical, and extremely helpful for a wide variety of design purposes. Adobe put a lot of time and effort into their newest iteration of Photoshop. As a result, there are hundreds of improvements. Rather than trying to list every single one of them, here are a few of the most noteworthy additions in Photoshop CS6. Content Aware Move This is one of the most impressive additions to Photoshop CS6. Once you have made your selection, make sure that the Content Aware Move Tool is selected, and simply move your selection wherever you want it. The New Blur Filters Field Blur Field Blur is an excellent filter for giving your photos a realistic blurred look. It doesn’t take much, since I only set the blur effect to 15px to get the result shown above. Iris Blur Iris Blur adds a blur to every part of your image, except for a focal point.
[Giz explica] Por que sua senha é ruim A única pessoa que você pode confiar sua senha de forma segura é você mesmo. E, sendo bem sincero, você provavelmente não está fazendo o bastante para deixá-la segura mesmo. As razões: sua sopa de letras, números e símbolos provavelmente já está espalhada em diversos sites, não é longa o bastante e provavelmente não é muito pessoal. A maioria de nossas senhas é ruim demais. E isso é um problema bem grande. O ponto que você precisa entender é que a maior ameaça à sua segurança não é algum maluco parado na frente da sua tela de e-mail, colocando senhas aleatórias em busca da sua conta. E a configuração necessária para desmembrar senhas fracas não é nada complexa ou especial. Ah, e um aviso: escrever com números no lugar de letras, como se você fosse super hacker das interwebs, não manterá sua senha segura. Uma vez que uma senha fraca tenha sido descoberta, não é só aquela conta num site qualquer que se dará mal. Ok, então no resumo tudo isso é ruim para todo mundo. Veja mais sobre
Top 10 Underhyped Windows Apps Some apps are essential, and everyone who's anyone knows to have them on their computer. Some apps, however, are fantastic, yet fly under the radar. Today, we look at our top 10 underhyped apps on Windows. We've shared our favorite underhyped webapps a few times before, but we were shocked to find we hadn't done the same for our beloved desktops. So, this week, we're tackling Windows. Come back next week to see our favorite underhyped Mac apps! 10. WizMouse is that app you never knew you wanted until you use it. 9. Skitch isn't necessarily the best screenshot tool around, but it's long been our favorite screenshot annotation tool for the Mac, and now it's on Windows. 8. You've probably heard of PotPlayer before—after all, it's our App Directory pick for the best video player on Windows. 7. Windows' taskbar is still the best taskbar around, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. 6. Chocolatey brings Linux's lightning-fast, super configurable package management to Windows. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Get Organized: 25 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts - 25 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts--Windows Organization and productivity go hand-in-hand. Learn even a few of these keyboard shortcuts for Windows PCs or Macs to improve your efficiency. 25 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts—Windows Note: Single letter keys are shown capitalized, but you do not have to hold Shift unless it's specified. Commonly Used OS-Level Shortcuts 1. Browser Shortcuts 6. Commonly Used Shortcuts in Most Applications 11. Copy-and-Pasters' Delight 17. Find, Select, and Navigate Text 21. Next: 25 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts—Mac >>
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