Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 26th December 2008
PNotes is a digital version of the well known sticky notes. This open source, meaning free to use, utility will allow you paste important notes on your computer’s screen.
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Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 10th December 2008
The daily use of your computer causes the fragments of the files on your hard drives to be randomly displaced which, in the long run, slows your system because Windows needs to recompose the file from various fragments before it can be processed.
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Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 14th November 2008
Would you like to stare at the night sky in the comfort of your home ? Stellarium will allow you to do that. A free and open source planetarium for computers, the software displays a realistic sky in 3D on your monitor. All you need to do is set your coordinates.
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Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 3rd November 2008
Rohos Mini Drive is a free encryption software that allows you to safeguard your USB drive by setting up a hidden and secure partition.
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Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 21st October 2008
If you’ve wanted to create pdf files but was put down by the price of the tools for creating such files, you may want to check doPDF, a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Once installed, it will create a virtual printer driver that allows you to produce PDF files, from any application, by selecting the “Print” command.
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Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 19th October 2008
Quick Media Converter is a free software that helps you to convert easily video and audio files from one format to another, extract and convert audio files from video or audio media, extract and convert Video without sound.
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Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 14th October 2008
If you don’t feel like paying for an office suite, the third version of the open source Open Office suite is available for download in its final, non beta, version. Beside many improvements, it’s fully compatible with Microsoft Office 2007.
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Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 15th September 2008
SAGE is an open source mathematics software that can be used to studying elementary to advanced number theory, algebra, cryptography, group theory and so much more. It includes interfaces to many other software applications, both commercial and open source, enabling you to use them together. Mathematica, GAP, Octave and MATLAB are just a few of the interfaces that SAGE provides its users.
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Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 8th September 2008
Unbelievable but true. Microsoft is giving away Microsoft developer and design tools for free to full time students and software developers.
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Posted by F. S. KAMAL on 6th September 2008
If you take the smooth booting of your computer for granted, then just keep in mind that sometimes things may go wrong and it can refuse to start causing you to scratch your head and search for a computer geek to help you.
Before you do so, prepare yourself by downloading The Ultimate Boot CD, a collection of around 100 tools and utilities. The package is provided as an iso file that you have to burn to make a bootable CD.
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