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Mon, 04/14/2008 - 04:35 — gizmo.richards
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Here's a suggestion for backing up files - File Hamster
I use it. It's free. I took the text that follows from their site to possibly pique your interest.
Thanks for putting up this site - Ive wanted to do something like this for the longest time.
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www.mogware.com/FileHamster/
Version Tracking Application for Content Creators
FileHamster provides real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work. It enables you to monitor specific files on your hard drive and automatically create incremental backups whenever those files are modified. It also enables you to store notes about the changes that have been made, allowing you to quickly locate a specific revision or provide a detailed account of the work you've done on a project.
>I have written an article which hopefully explains the basics of bittorrent clearly at What is Bittorrent?.
This guide was written on June 25, 2008, and last revised on August 2, 2008.
OOPs I can't find that page
This site has just been moved to its new home and things have been moved around
To locate the page you want try clicking here and using the site search to find your article>
I can't find the article What is Bittorrent. I keep being moved to free sites or something like it. not the article its self.
Johnboy
There was a mixup and the article was missing for a bit. I posted my copy and now there are two, but hopefully that will be cleared up.
Anyhow, this is the link (sorry for the inconvenience)
http://www.techsupportalert.com/node/490
Hello Mr. Gizmo is it okay if you can fined the best free Traffic Shaper.
Besides that this is a fantastic site and keep up the great work. Bye
what about a image labeler, you know when you see a diagram of something and it has numbers and arrows to show you what that part of something is
-Jeremy
Hi Gismo!
I just wanted to ask if you had heard about the new window that is coming out in 2010 by Microsoft? It is called windows 7 and it is supposed to exceed Vista. could you tell me more about this new window and if it would be better then Vista? We all know Vista has many issues that needed caring for, but I am starting to get use to it and their had been so many improvements with it, I am not sure if I would even want to try another windows program again. I am hoping we will not be forced into this new one like we have been from XP to Vista.
Thank you for this sight and all the info and help I get here. Keep up the good work.
Hello Ian
1st let me thank you for your effort. Your Freeware lists have always been great for finding what i needed and use it.
I decided to drop a line and attempt to contribute to your list.
In the section of Best Free Drive Encryption Utility you could consider FREE CompuSec from CE-Infosys. This software is FREE for both Professional Business use as well as Personal use.
Having tried both TrueCrypt and CompuSec, i opted for the use of the later.
To keep things short, do take a look and judge on your own.
And yah, the new site looks great.
Gary
Hi
I am a little worried with respect to the trustworthiness about the differentes freewares, because I have noticed that any inexperienced person can add their own ideas, that can be completely false. It would prefer that the site returns to be like the one of before, with a separate section for the ideas of the members.
Thank you
I'm afraid not. It's intended to become more-and-more wiki-like; already we allow anyone to post any comment they wish as long as they do not break our very liberal site rules. We don't really have "members" in the sense you mean.
Our Reviews are written by a team of experienced "Category Editors" & of course I would claim that they are trustworthy. The ensuing comments however, often create a debate to which anyone can contribute.
Hi Gizmo,
I was looking for a reasonable OCR program to scan text into my computer. I found a free one out there and the OCR engine is maintained by Google. It's not perfect (what is?) but it did convert a document from my scanner that I needed to edit. I thought you might like to check it out.
1) FreeOCR
FreeOCR is a Windows OCR program including the Windows compiled Tesseract free ocr engine. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff's, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff's which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read. It now has Twain scanning. It cannot open PDF's at the moment but we are working on that. We may include Ghostscript to render PDF documents and our ultimate goal would be to create a searchable PDF. Free OCR uses the Tesseract OCR engine (see below)
2) Tesseract
The Tesseract free OCR engine is an open source product released by Google. It was developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories between 1985 and 1995. In 1995 it was one of the top 3 performers at the OCR accuracy contest organized by University of Nevada in Las Vegas. The Tesseract engine source code is now maintained by Google.
Web site for download: http://www.freeocr.net/
This post is totally misplaced and will soon be deleted.
You are very welcome to post it on our Forum.
Hi Gizmo,
As always, great stuff here!! Thanks for all the resources.
Blessings,
Andy
I love the new website! The original was a blessing, but this is a delightful improvement. May I offer one suggestion, if it has not already been thought of? How about a search/sort option for recently updated?
Cheers,
David
Im not that up on all this but already getting into this site,hope it stays open for all like myself who often feel excluded and for that matter are.so top marks here,
What a find Thanks
Very helpful and public-spirited site! Thanks for your efforts and I hope others will continue the tradition of offering helpful advice to the many lay people using the net.
Silverbullit
Your site is most useful and simply wonderful. Thank you for remaining impartial, sympathetic to us (poor freeware hunters), and , above all
for the clarity of your discourses.
Yes indeed! This site is very useful. And, I don't mind paying for good software. However, it would be appropriated to state up front when there is a cost involved.
Many thanks for your appreciated efforts.
Michel
Montéal
Geez Gizmo such a breeze to have found your site... I was about to become a Mac converter but thanks to your helpful guide... The tutorials can not be discounted too.. Anyway, I am really interested to share my piece and become category editor soon..
Regards to all!!
cool post dude
Hi ian thanks again for e-mail more great stuff u totally amazed me how you keep coming up with all this stuff absolutely fantastic even the tutorial's are very help full..........john-r
It would be nice if there mac related articles/software/tips etc.
i own both a PC and a Mac. have become a total Mac fanatic. sadly enough have to date not found a site which offers what you do for PCs. will Mac freeware be included in your oh so grand achievement?
that would certainly be the dot on the i :-)
Thanks a bunch
I love the new website. Your idea for this website is awesome and I hope that it continues for a long time. This is exactly what I need for my computer problems.
Thanks,
Chris
As a supporter, i thank all of you for your work. Gizmo, you are currently (since Fred Langa retired) my only monthly newsletter source, and i value what you say. This new site is awesome. Thanks again.
Dave I.
Thanks Gizmo for your new web site's style.
Hamzeh Ghanbari Nehbandani
This is fabulous. Now, if only something like it existed for Mac!
Watch this space. An editor is already working on constructing the best ever free mac software list
As someone who occasionally needs to correct or append to a comment of my own, I'd find it useful to be able to edit one of my comments rather than have to add another one (a feature which most discussion forums have but which this wiki software may lack - even edits to anonymous comments could successfully be filtered by IP address for those people whose address doesn't change that often).
- bill
I agree unfortunately the CMS we use for this site doesn't yet offer this feature but I hear it's planned for the next version. I think we have heard that one before so I'll keep an eye out for another solution.
I stopped my computer-problem search in its tracks to bookmark this, once I noticed the website's:
1. simplicity
2. speed
3. focus
4. lack of advertising
Anymore, seeing whitespace on the internet is like seeing grassy areas downtown. And the lack of Adobe/Macromedia Flash is -always- a welcome relief. No ads, no clutter, just the straight scoop.
Well done! I'll go back to my searching now, but this site is on my must-return list.
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