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3 hours 43 min ago 783 Places for Free eBooks Online reel

I find this much easier on my eyes and since I view on a laptop, I can read anywhere and why bother going to physically get a book when it can be downloaded or viewed online http://www.abcphotos.co.uk/

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4 hours 5 min ago Best Free Setup Builder jackred

Yes great software!!
There's also DCP Setup Maker (https://sourceforge.net/projects/devcompack/) which is using IzPack to build installers without coding knowledge! ;)

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4 hours 39 min ago An Introduction and a Quick Guide to Sandboxie Anupam

I agree it looks lengthy, but I have tried to make it as short as possible, and have tried to touch all the important concepts of Sandboxie, which a general user will require to understand, to use Sandboxie properly, without problems.

I believe it's still quicker than going trying to understand Sandboxie by yourself.

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6 hours 17 min ago An Introduction and a Quick Guide to Sandboxie Mifune

"Quick Guide to Sandboxie"

"Quick" it is not.

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6 hours 29 min ago How to Fix a Computer that Keeps Waking Up chandrra

Hi,thanks to you all for a nice discussion, I have seen a website http://customercaresupportnumber.com/ thta is providing valuable information on customer care services provided on various products by

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8 hours 17 min ago Use This Powerful Microsoft Tool to Provide Better Security for Windows Programs v.laurie

If you click the download link at the reference given in the tip (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273) you have a choice of both the EMET installation file and a PDF user guide.

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8 hours 52 min ago Use This Powerful Microsoft Tool to Provide Better Security for Windows Programs KenA

The MS description is somewhat confusing. Where is the PDF guide you mentioned?

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9 hours 15 min ago 311 Places To Read Books Online Without Download or Registration WalderC

Thank You so much for making this excellent list! I had never seen many of the sites You have listed here before and I am enjoying the opportunity to explore so many of what were previously unknown to me sites... There is one site I didn't see listed on here that I would like to suggest to You for possible inclusion in the future, the name of the site is Bookshare.org and it differs from the other EBook sites in that it exists specifically to serve the needs of eligible disabled individuals and make it possible for them to read copyrighted content in specially-formatted, large-print, accessible versions. They have an extensive library with everything from the latest bestsellers to current periodicals, textbooks, classics, and everything else You could imagine in-between and eligible individuals are granted access to all of it free of charge (there is also a way that other non-eligible individuals can earn access to content in the library through doing volunteer work for Book-Share and first submitting an application for acceptance and approval etc. Here is a link to the Bookshare.org main page followed by an excerpt from the site's About page:
www.Bookshare.org
Making reading accessible to people with print disabilities.
Bookshare is the world’s largest online library of copyrighted content for people with qualifying print disabilities. What can you do with Bookshare?
Access a large and diverse collection of titles for school or pleasure reading
Read eBooks on computers, tablets, phones, assistive technology, MP3 players and more
Listen to books with high quality text-to-speech voices
Read multi-modally (see and hear words as they are being read and highlighted)
Take notes, add bookmarks, look up word definitions, and more
Download free reading tools for PCs, Mac, and Android devices (learn more)
Qualified U.S. students and the schools serving them can join Bookshare for FREE through an award from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Non-students and international members pay a low annual fee (learn more)

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10 hours 48 min ago Best Free Ways to Learn Programming Panzer

I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer - a 75-day free programming online seminar that aims to teach novice coders the fundamentals of Python (begins June 22):

http://opensource.com/life/13/6/learning-program-open-source-way

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11 hours 7 min ago Best Free Software for Linux Panzer

"... Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Because duplicity uses GnuPG to encrypt and/or sign these archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the server ...":
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

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11 hours 9 min ago Best Free Software for Mac OS Panzer

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family.

Features:

- Autosuggestions
- Glorious VGA Color
- Sane Scripting
- Web Based configuration
- Man Page Completions
- Works Out Of The Box

http://fishshell.com/

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11 hours 14 min ago Best Free Software for Linux Panzer

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family.

Features:

- Autosuggestions
- Glorious VGA Color
- Sane Scripting
- Web Based configuration
- Man Page Completions
- Works Out Of The Box

http://fishshell.com/

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11 hours 21 min ago Stay Safe - Update Your Java Installation Now bertie44

But don't forget to untick the box for installing Ask ... it's a b*gger to get rid of.

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11 hours 36 min ago Best Free Digital Image Viewer Panzer

"... Nomacs is a free image viewer ... small, fast and able to handle the most common image formats including RAW images. Additionally it is possible to synchronize multiple viewers. A synchronization of viewers running on the same computer or via LAN is possible. It allows to compare images and spot the differences (e.g. schemes of architects to show the progress) ...":
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nomacs/

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11 hours 49 min ago Best Free Software for Linux Panzer

"... Obnam is an easy, secure backup program. Backups can be stored on local hard disks, or online via the SSH SFTP protocol. The backup server, if used, does not require any special software, on top of SSH.

Some features that may interest you:

* Snapshot backups. Every generation looks like a complete snapshot, so you don't need to care about full versus incremental backups, or rotate real or virtual tapes.
* Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the backup repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will be re-used, even if it was in another file in an older backup generation. This way, you don't need to worry about moving around large files, or modifying them. (However, the current implementation has some limitations: see dedup).
* Encrypted backups, using GnuPG ...":

http://liw.fi/obnam/

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11 hours 49 min ago Get Torchlight for Free at GOG (48 Hours) J_L

Would've bothered if it included the Linux version, too many similar (graphics and gameplay-wise) free games on Windows. Of course, Macs are not affordable enough for any worthwhile savings on software.

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18 hours 26 min ago Stay Safe - Update Your Java Installation Now John VE

Done ... thnx for the reminder Rob.

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22 hours 32 min ago Best Free Online Backup Sites palmorais

I share with you all 2 interesting articles about the subject with some services which are not listed here.

The Top 8 Free Online File Storage Sites:
http://socialtimes.com/top-15-free-online-file-storage-sites-2_b117246

Supersize your free cloud storage to 100GB or more:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2037131/supersize-your-free-cloud-storage...

The Best Cloud Storage Solutions:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413556,00.asp

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1 day 2 hours ago Best Free Firewall freestuffrocks

I'm a little confused as to which is the best HIPS firewall. According to the quick selection guide, Private Firewall is the new number one yet, in the detailed review of each HIPS firewall, in the 'Firewalls With Strong HIPS Protection' section, it says "Comodo Firewall is the best choice for users seeking a full featured security suite".

Is it simply that the quick selection guide has been updated but the detailed reviews haven't, because those for Comodo and PrivateFirewall look just the same as when Comodo was still number one? Thanks.

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1 day 2 hours ago Best Free Music Player and Organizer for Android dk.gs

This is a great review - thanks very much for spending your time doing this.

I looked at the top picks and none of them support a feature that is very important to some - and this is a feature that the stock Android myMusic player for ICS *does* support - pretty well.

The feature is the Bluetooth AVRCP profile (version 1.3). This BT profile allows remote control of the music player including sending the track information so it can be displayed on a remote display. This is used most often in newer cars audio systems that have a display, and it's a very neat feature.

Anyone know of a music player other than the stock player that supports this?

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1 day 7 hours ago Best Free Antivirus Software rroberto

Of course it's asking for trouble to install 2 or more AV apps. But it can be done safely if one can be set to run in real time, the other to run only on-demand, as a cross-check of the realtime app.

I currently have Avast Free as my real time AV (quite happily) and Avira AntiVir on-demand because it has very strong detection rates with few false positives. But Avira's nag pop-ups are unstoppable, even after following many "proven" methods for getting rid of them that one can find on safe 3rd-party sites.

Now my questions. If I update Avira from AntiVir to the 2013 Personal edition:
a) can I still set it to run non-resident/on-demand only?
b) will the pop-ups stop?

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1 day 7 hours ago Best Free Game Sites wanderingames

Check out www.wanderingames.com and play the latest flash and Unity 3D games. If you are a developer and you want to host your game on our website, send us an email at wanderingames@gmail.com. Thank you!

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1 day 10 hours ago Sounds You Don't Want To Hear: Failing Hard Drives densethicko

Take the lid off the drive and spay some WD40

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1 day 10 hours ago Best Free Sticky Notes Utility Eric Blanche

Simple Sticky Notes updated to new version (2.1), introduces many new features. Themes, alarm, explorer, backup & restore ... I think it's best sticky notes software.
http://www.simplestickynotes.com

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1 day 10 hours ago Best Free Web Browser Panzer

"... We See In Every Direction is a Web browser for collaborative, synchronized surfing ... Users can type, click and change URLs in real time together; they can jockey for control of the browser – akin to fighting for the TV remote – or choose to sit back and let their friends take care of the surfing ...":
http://ineverydirection.net/

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1 day 15 hours ago Site Suggestions and Feedback jadepenguin

I think it is kind of hard to navigate through the site. For example, to find the Android list of top free apps, I tried to click "Android" which brought me to a list of articles about apps, not the compiled list I was looking for. The navigation bar at the top is confusing because when I come to this site, I want the best of... lists so I naturally look for it at the top navigation bar. But I have to go to the homepage to find them instead, which means 1-2 more screens before I get to what I want. Also I can't tell what exactly the focus of the site is supposed to be: it seem to be the "Best of..." Freeware but everywhere I see are articles and tips for random things. It is not very organized, and the homepage looks really cluttered.
Well that's just my thoughts anyway :) I think you could get a lot more traffic if the site was more user friendly and more mainstream, like the fancy new websites coming out now. What you guys do is great, it has helped me a lot over the past years.

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1 day 19 hours ago Best Free CD-DVD Burning Software budchekov

FYI: Also bundled with..
'Install Angry Birds & MyFreeGames Toolbar, set default search & new tabs to MyFreeGames Search, and set my homepage on my browser to MyFreeGames Search'.
No thanks, Declining is not obvious, typical confuse a cat gotcha for the innocent set up,...time to look for an alternative, or stay with the previous version.

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1 day 22 hours ago Check Yourself Using Astrid webguy

I tried Astrid long ago and was about to go back to it when I saw that it was just purchased by Yahoo. From what I have seen online, it appears Yahoo plans to shut it down. (Just Google: Astrid Yahoo.) They apparently already won't take any new premium upgrades, mention they will be offering refunds for existing upgrades, and will be posting data export instructions.

Too bad. I hear a lot of folks agree with you that it is the best!

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2 days 53 min ago Best Free Technical Support Sites victor9111

Had a qualitative experience with the Digimanonline.com when my PC almost stopped responding due to a virus attack. Left with no other option i had to take help from an online tech support. These guys offered, what they call as "No fix, No pay" so I decided to give 'em a try. With remote assistance they diagnosed the problem free of cost (which was in my case LOADS of Trojans) and provided a complete solution just for $29.

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2 days 10 hours ago Best Free Screen Capture Utility Panzer

HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, ...):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotshots/

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2 days 10 hours ago How To Fix “BOOTMGR is missing” Error in Vista and Windows 7 Anupam

We cannot provide individual support in the comments. If you want assistance please post here in our forum.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/general-computer-support/

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2 days 11 hours ago How To Fix “BOOTMGR is missing” Error in Vista and Windows 7 kp155

I have a Problem to starting windows. It shows that BOOTMGR missing and while i press Alt and f10 Simulationaly then it doesn't word. Then What would i have to do to restore computer?

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2 days 11 hours ago Best Free PC Games Panzer

BeGone is browser based online multiplayer first person shooter with a realistic theme:
http://www.nplay.com/BeGone/

Offensive Combat (beta)- browser-based first-person shooter:
http://offensivecombat.com/

UberStrike is a free-to-play browser based First Person Shooter:
http://www.uberstrike.com/

CS Portable is a web-browser-based port of Counter-Strike:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/IgorLevochkin/counter-strike-web-browser...

X Speed Race - Drive the super fast cars and become the best driver out there:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/x-speed-race/

Iron Grip: Marauders is a turn-based strategy browser game with full 3D battles:
https://igmarauders.isotx.com/

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2 days 12 hours ago Best Free Software for Linux Panzer

FireBox - A 3D Internet Browser supporting the Oculus Rift:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mccrae/projects/firebox/

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2 days 18 hours ago The Best iPad Tips and Tricks mande

When reading on my Ipad, I tried to bookmark a page. The bookmark would not show up red so I kept trying it to no avail. Later, I looked up the bookmarks and I have 15 of the same bookmarks for the same day. Is there anyway I can delete them? I tried hitting the bookmark again but I just get another bookmark under the bookmark pages.
Thanks
Mande

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2 days 22 hours ago Free Desktop To-Do List is Easy to Use dynamite00401

Sync v2.0 released 15-04-2013
http://www.dextronet.com/to-do-desklist

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2 days 23 hours ago An Amazing App That Gives Your Browser A Photographic Memory cheffo

Next release of Opera 15 web browser has something very similar built into it. It is called Stash and once web page is saved in this area of the browser does not use any resources of your pc. Link http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/opera-next-15-0-released

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3 days 2 hours ago Best Free Office Suite George.J

Only paid version offers to disable this tab.

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3 days 3 hours ago Security Software That Will Wow You. I Guarantee. vandamme

"Nobody is listening to your phone conversations" says President Hopey-Changey. True, but they have computers that can recognize your words and sort them into key phrases for further analysis.

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3 days 3 hours ago Is this Website down, or is it me? Andre Glegg

A good alternative is http://downorjust.me to check if a website is really down

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3 days 3 hours ago Best Free CD-DVD Burning Software v.laurie

ImgBurn has been updated to version 2.5.8.0. It is now bundled with OpenCandy.

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3 days 3 hours ago Freeware Game of the Week (Get ready to Cry with Fear!) George.J

You shouldn't bash a game, just after you start playing it. Get used to it first.

Like I said, to save you've to find the tape recorders lying around in the game, the first time a message will appear, then click it, double click in a empty space to save. That's it.

The Controls can be adjusted by going to the Options menu, the usual way you do it.

Yes at first you'll only be equipped with a flash camera, which has very little intensity of light. Later on you'll get various other equipments to light up the rooms.

"The aiming was off on the buttons so it was difficult to click on the one you wanted." ----- I didn't quite understand what you meant here....

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3 days 6 hours ago Freeware Game of the Week (Get ready to Cry with Fear!) Century22

Since this site would NOT allow me to DELETE my post, I edited it down to a few words!

The rest were supposed to be comments on the game, and answers to questions asked of me.

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3 days 8 hours ago Internet Addresses, Protocols, and Ports Explained in Simple Terms terrawarra

Thanks v.laurie... some really helpful explanations for an old dinosaur like me.

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3 days 8 hours ago Probably the Best Free Security List in the World vodomar

http://prism-break.org/

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3 days 18 hours ago How to Harden Your Browser Against Malware and Privacy Concerns SHieron5

First, this is a great page, with good advice and links to valuable resources.

Second, it's a bit overwhelming. Looking at the Firefox extensions specifically, surely it's not necessary or even wise to add all of them. Perhaps you could make it clearer which ones mostly overlap or render others superfluous? (Perhaps provide a bottom line such as: 1. If you're not technically adept, install A B C, and if you're really paranoid, add D E. 2. If you are adept, install A F G , and if you're really paranoid D H.)

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3 days 20 hours ago Best Free High Dynamic Range (HDR) Software MidnightCowboy

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The product details have now been updated. MC - Site Manager.

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4 days 9 min ago Best Free High Dynamic Range (HDR) Software Lanaka

FYI, just downloaded fresh copies of installers for Luminance and Picturenaut. Noticed that Picturenaut now offers separate x86 and x64 versions. Just figured you ought to know. Haven't tested them yet as I'm almost out of time (start work in 15 minutes).

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4 days 3 hours ago How to Move Windows 7 Personal Folders Like My Documents to Another Drive v.laurie

We are unable to respond to individual support requests here. Please post your question in our forum.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/general-computer-support/

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4 days 4 hours ago How to Move Windows 7 Personal Folders Like My Documents to Another Drive Sully Kubillas

I would appreciate very much you help:

I need to reinstall Windows 7 on my PC. My personal folders (My Music, Desktop, My Documetscs, etc) were moved to drive D:. Now the question is how to tell reinstalled Windows 7 where these default folders are in order to gain acces to them.

Sully

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4 days 7 hours ago A Truly Feature-Packed Windows Video Player terrawarra

I've been using KM Player for a few years...
we are indeed a spoiled lot with so many excellent freeware media players to choose from because they are generally on a par with each other.

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4 days 11 hours ago Freeware Game of the Week (Get ready to Cry with Fear!) The Nomad Soul

Century22, you don't need to spam the comments, one "this sucks" thread is enough.

On to the actual game, it's actually pretty impressive when you consider ONE MAN made this thing! It obviously doesn't have the polish of a triple A title with 100+ pro level designers and programmers but it's an incredible effort for one man. I'd be surprised if this guy does not get a job working for an actual developer.

That said this game won't appeal to everyone but those that love horror themed FPS games should find something to enjoy. I do think that it would have been better if the developer had cut down the length and just focused on a shorter game to smooth out some of the rough edges. I haven't experienced any crashes but the animations could have used a bit more TLC.

Still, in the land of mods this is definitely a stand out effort.

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4 days 14 hours ago 9 Great Freeware Programs that Should be on Every PC eXERGURL

Thanks. Can't wait to check these out.

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4 days 14 hours ago Find Out What Windows Drivers and Services are Doing with this Powerful Free Utility crank

I'll second that opinion, the number of free utilities and the breadth of capabilities provided by the nirsoft collection is just amazing. Be sure to get the nirlauncher! All the pieces rolled into one download with a gui-launcher, well categorized for easy access. You can get a script that will include the whole SysInternals suite into the launcher, and also some of Piriforms utilities, and some others. Very very handy., the nirsoft people provide a real nice service. I wholeheartedly recommend everyone get a copy for their toolbox.

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4 days 18 hours ago Best Free Firewall Hugheen

Wonderful reviews and information. Terrific site. One thing that seems
missing although I might be missing the obvious and that is do any of these
free firewalls provide any level of any kind of support.

I'm one week from expiration of Comodo commercial so a prompt response would be much appreciated. I found support from Comodo somewhat erratic.

thanks

Hugh

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4 days 19 hours ago Best Free PDF Writer evdan

Hello,
Question for Freddyflint10.
After searching for a while for a “safe” PDF printer, I choose CutePDF and installed it on all of my systems. I have not seen any unusual traffic or redirects.
How can I tell if it overrode my proxy settings as you suggested above?
Thank you in advance.

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5 days 1 hour ago Best Free Game Sites MIJNER

[Removed. Only links to English language sites are permitted]

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5 days 1 hour ago Find Out What Windows Drivers and Services are Doing with this Powerful Free Utility richtea

Might be of interest if it provided information on obsolescent drivers; on services, WinPatrol already gives me a handful. Otherwise, Nirsoft is an excellent resource.

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5 days 7 hours ago Best Free Non-Adobe PDF Reader jdefgts

Qiqqa is indeed a powerful research and knowledge management tool. While its strengths lie in the organization, management and citation of academic and business reference material, it is clearly overkill as a PDF reader.

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5 days 7 hours ago Best Free RSS Reader-Aggregator philip

GreatNews is still stuck in Beta. Judging by the GreatNews forum, and by the fact that the blog is not reachable, there is not much development. It looks interesting and suited to intrepid users, but it doesn't appear ready yet for broad recommendation or serious review.

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5 days 8 hours ago Best Free Electronic Book Reader Anupam

It's a kind request. Whenever you suggest a software, please post a link to its site. I have inserted the link this time in the comment.

Also, if you notice, yBook has been suggested just a comment below.

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5 days 8 hours ago Manage A Project Online For Free Tim010

I agree with sandeep it is awesome project management software. So, you must try this tool atleast once.

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5 days 9 hours ago Best Free Electronic Book Reader Epsilon

Just took a look at yBook. It's now at version 2 and can handle ePub.

http://www.spacejock.com/yBook.html

Here is a list of current features:

Runs on any Windows PC (Win95 or later)
Display your book on side-by-side or single pages.
Resize the pages, adjust the margins, set text and paper colour.
Text, html and RTF reader
PDB and PRC reader
ePub reader
Search for words or phrases
Automatic bookmarks
Text sizes from tiny to HUGE
No zooming, panning or scrolling
Direct download of all Gutenberg titles, with index.
Internationalised menus - Spanish, German, etc
Completely free to use: No registration, no adware, no spyware.

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5 days 9 hours ago Best Free RSS Reader-Aggregator F13-Reboot

FeedDemon has problems with a large database (5-8.000) of news, sometimes it hangs. Much better is GreatNews. http://www.curiostudio.com/

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5 days 11 hours ago Finds of the Week (Play Minecraft for Free, Learn to Code, Google Safe Search, Online Weather School, enable PDF Viewer in Firefox 15) therock

I like playing online minecraft games, I use play on http://www.minecraftgames.co

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5 days 13 hours ago Best Free Registry Cleaner Alan Waker

i think you missed out a very popular Registry Cleaner of today's world i.e. Registry Recycler (http://www.registryrecycler.com/). It is best and comes on top in my list of freeware registry cleaners to clean up Registry Errors and speed up PC. Does Well everything for free.

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5 days 14 hours ago I Still Rate This Excellent Free Youtube Downloader Grim107

Just so everyone's aware, this program can download from other select sites. This is the only free program I know of that can still download off of Hulu.

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5 days 14 hours ago Best Free PDF Writer MidnightCowboy

Thanks for letting us know. I've now added a note to the product description. MC - Site Manager.

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5 days 16 hours ago Freeware Game of the Week (Get ready to Cry with Fear!) Century22

All I had was a flash camera. Every so often I could take a picture and see something in the flash.
It would not save, so every time I had to start from the beginning and sit through the long winded intro.

The controls could not be adjusted. The aiming was off on the buttons so it was difficult to click on the one you wanted. I could go on with so many other bugs!

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5 days 17 hours ago Best Free PDF Writer freddyflint10

CutePDF v3.0 now comes with ASK.Com installer. Be Warned - It *WILL* override your internet proxy settings, regardless of deselecting the ASK.com installer and I don't know why. A support query has been submitted, will advise when and if I get a response.
For the time-being don't install this product.

Yee-Be-Warned
Fred

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5 days 17 hours ago Try A Free Cloud-Based Diagramming Tool GP23

I was researching Visio alternatives a while back and found a few possibilities in addition to the Cloud-based ones. They are: LibreOffice Draw, Gephi, ArgoUML, Dia and the one I settled on, yEd Graph Editor.

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5 days 18 hours ago Freeware Game of the Week (Get ready to Cry with Fear!) George.J

In the beginning your world is pitch dark. You use your cellphones, flares, lanterns to illuminate the place. During the later parts you get tactical light, which you combine with the pistol to light up the place and this has the best shining power. Also you get gas masks which has nightvision mode.

Remember that this is a horror game, if the world was fully lighted, what creates the sense of fear? In the opening moments, Cry of Fear first puts your resolve to the test. CoF puts you in a dark room, a pitch black hall and your only weapon an old-fashioned camera useful for nothing other than its blinding flash. You know what you have to do here of course.

CoF uses the Resident Evil sytle save system, There's no manual save, you've tape recorders lying around in the game, you've to use them to save your game. In Resident Evil you had ink rolls and typewriters to save the game.

If you did that, and still cannot save, go to the Cry of Fear folder, C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\yourusername\half-life\CryofFear, and here if you do not have a folder called "save", make one manually and leave it empty.

I had no issues, played the whole game hadn't encountered any bugs in the final standalone steam version.

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5 days 21 hours ago Freeware Game of the Week (Get ready to Cry with Fear!) Century22

So sorry, but this game sucks.

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5 days 21 hours ago Freeware Game of the Week (Get ready to Cry with Fear!) Century22

How is this a "Tech Treat" ?

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5 days 21 hours ago Freeware Game of the Week (Get ready to Cry with Fear!) Century22

Yup, it's crap.
Cheap "game" FULL of bugs. Everything is black. Will not save your game. Poor controls.
I really tried to like it, but is to frustrating trying to get it to run to be enjoyable.

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6 days 6 hours ago Optimizing Vuze (formerly Azureus) for Speed rockytt

Feeling like an idiot, but can't get an open port.
Home DSL, so I should only have to configure my NetGear router. Followed steps (I think!) to open port 49388 (which I set on the Vuze program), as well as the router:
1) Add Custom Service
2) Firewall Rules > Add
-but still get that dreaded "timeout" when checking.
Any tips/hints/tricks??
Thanks!

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6 days 9 hours ago Best Free Software for Mac OS benzamin watson

Here, I am discussing backup and cloning software for Mac. As we know CCC is now no more free, so I find getback from belightsoft as free backup software for Mac. But, it is not as much reliable as the others Mac cloning apps. Stellar Drive Clone and CCC are best Mac cloning apps for your Mac.

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6 days 16 hours ago Best Free Media Player George.J

Try re-installing Windows Media Player.

Go to Control Panel->Type "windows features" in the search box->Click Turn Windows features on or off. In the next window, expand Media Features by clicking on the "+" icon next to it and unselect the check box next to Windows Media Player.

Now reboot your system, and select (tick-mark) the same check box next to Windows Media Player again.

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6 days 18 hours ago Best Free Media Player Scott_Y

Thanks for your response, George. Good point about PotPlayer's independence, so perhaps it's a coincidence that WMP ran fine before but failed after installing PotPlayer -- and I made no other changes related to playing media in at least the two weeks before that. But I don't have a detailed log of of events other than installations and updates, so there could be something I have missed.

My OS is Win7 x64, and WMP 12 (installed with Win7). I didn't associate any file types with PotPlayer, and I haven't installed any codec packs.

The program requiring wmp.dll is Listen N Write (transcription software from Elefant Software). The error message when I try to launch Listen N Write says
"Lib OCX -> Reg ERROR! Failed to load control 'WindowsMediaPlayer' from wmp.dll. Your version of wmp.dll may be outdated. Make sure you are using the version of the control that was provided with your application."

Listen N Write was installed after PotPlayer was installed and after WMP stopped working, so I can't say if it would have run before that. In fact it wasn't until I got the above error message that I went back to my installation log and saw that two WMP-related programs have failed to run since installing PotPlayer (WMP itself and Listen N Write). So that's what makes me suspicious. But I remind myself that WMP is Microsoft, and MS programs sometimes just fail on their own so PotPlayer may be just an innocent bystander.

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6 days 20 hours ago An Amazing App That Gives Your Browser A Photographic Memory MidnightCowboy

McAfee is notorious for false positives. I would consider switching to something else. See here:

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As you can see from the following reports, the site is perfectly safe. MC - Site Manager.

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I've been having a great experience with Toolwiz Care for about a month now. I feel it actually trumps Iobit's product (I was a big fan in the past before I learned about the company from this site), and it's not from a shady company. I look forward to seeing what Toolwiz comes up with next.

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6 days 21 hours ago Best Free Music Player and Organizer jctcom

I have been using HMM since back in the days when it was called "Helium" and then "Helium 2"

I have tried others over the years and always end up back at Helium. It is the only one that does I think Everything. Please Full FLAC files with 24Bit / 96KHZ even my DVD-A and Blu-Ray ripped 5.1.

The built in player has an unlimited auto-playlist generator which I have set up to activate automatically whenever my current playlist has less than 10 songs.

I believe I have been using it for over a decade now and I have over 30,000 tracks on it.

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I could write pages on it but give it a try. There is a free version and I use the full blown network version with SQL Express database from multiple computers in the house. The iPhone remote app is also really nice for when I don't want to turn on the TV in the living room.

Carl.

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I downloaded the portable version of Avant Browser and tried to download video from Youtube with Avant Downloader. The result was always 0 bytes files.

And yes, it has a small memory footprint and seems rather agile.

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1 week 2 hours ago An Amazing App That Gives Your Browser A Photographic Memory Kennywee

I am a long, long time reader and sometimes user of this site. I have from time to time found some interesting topics/subjects here of which am very grateful. Thanks to all the posters.

I saw the "hot find" post on this program, it caught my attention and straight away went to the website to check it out and download. After checking it out in more details I realise that there is a browser which actually does exactly the same thing and even more.

AVANT Browser is what I use. For me it's an alternative to Firefox, Chrome and all the others which takes up so much of your system's resources, your system runs slower, (unfortunately, they won't tell you that).

In my opinion, AVANT browser does exactly the same thing as this program and even more. It probably may not look identical or similar but the principle is the same. If you wish, you can take a look at it and conclude for yourself. I could be wrong.

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Whenever you copy something (like text or link to a website), it's automatically stored in the clipboard. Next time when you use paste, the text or link from the clipboard is pasted.

This means you don't need to access the clipboard. Just copy-paste.

But if you want to retain the clipboard history, or want to paste something you copied yesterday, check this: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-clipboard-replacement-utility.htm

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Just tried to access this download and McAfee Site Advisor warned me not to go there, that the site had shown dangerous proclivities. Any advice?

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The Weather Channel App For Windows has a compatibility problem with windows 7.
The software supports a resolution of 1024 x 768 only.
The application has compatibility issues with windows 7 64 bit.
Also the software does run of a 32 bit operating system.
The software does take time to load.

Earth Alerts on the other hand gives you every 15 minute coverage of whats going on around the world.
Also i have used this software and found that when you select global settings you not only get alerts of the world but United States of America are also included irrelevant of whether you choose united states of America or global you will get alerts of the weather.

Weather bug has a problem with their download server.

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You are right and I ahve downloaded that version but I don't know how is supposed to work. I launch it installed it as a service and it finds nothing.
Would you care to tell me how are you using it? I am on windows 8 if it matters.

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Thank you for all the marvellous articles.
Please, can you tell me how to access "clipboard" in Windows7 (Home Premium)in order to make use of this interesting program.
Thank you in advance. Best regards

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1 week 11 hours ago Best Free Firewall Wolfram

I will start my post with a quote:

"According to China’s CERT, in the first quarter of 2013, US-based servers were used to hijack over 2.9 million mainframes in China.

In addition, the now famous NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, has also revealed that the US is “hacking everyone everywhere.”

Foreign Policy reports that the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) has a highly secretive unit, called the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), which has been hacking into foreign computer systems for almost 15 years.

TAO is headquartered in the NSA’s Fort Meade complex, in Maryland, and only a small number of the agency’s employees have access to it.

Former NSA officials have told Foreign Policy that TAO collects intel on foreign targets – China and other countries – by hacking into their computers and stealing the data stored on hard drives.

The core of TAO lies in an operations center called the Remote Operations Center (ROC), where 600 military and civilian hackers work 24/7 on finding and penetrating computer systems used by terrorists and other adversaries.

The software used by the NSA to compromise computers and intercept communications is custom-built by a team of skilled computer scientists and software engineers of the Data Network Technologies Branch.

One of TAO’s units, the Access Technologies Operations Branch, helps the CIA and the FBI plant eavesdropping systems on computers and telecommunications infrastructures located overseas."

source:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Secret-NSA-Office-Has-Been-Hacking-China-...

Questions:

0. Is there any Firewall able to stop the NSA army of hackers?

1. Is it true, or not, that the users' activity, on the Internet, is monitored, by "the agencies", at the ISP level - no matter what Operating System are using the Internauts; no matter how "impenetrable their Firewalls are; and no matter how vulnerable (unpatched) are the applications installed on their PCs?

2. Is it true, or not, that NSA needs very large storage facilities ("data vaults")? If they want to intercept ALL of us, and to store the data exchanged by, let's say, 100.000 users - doing video-chat, in HD (720p) -, they need a lot of memory.

3. Is it true, or not, that the agencies are using very reliable, mission-critical HDDs - which are expensive?

4. Is it true, or not, that, in the event that some of those HDDs stop working, they can not be replaced with new ones, even if they are still under warranty? They contain, "sensitive, classified data", and therefore, they must be destroyed.

5. Is it true, or not, that all the data stored on NSA's Archive, must have at least one duplicate? This means a double, or a triple number of storage devices (HDDs)! Which increases the operational costs.

The NSA, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, they would need, together, a HDD factory able to deliver, non-stop, HDDs only for them.

By the way, there are certain rumors that NSA has acces to a sci-fi-like storage technology, easy scalable to Peta-bytes of data, technology which does not rely on the "classical" magnetic (HDD) storage. But no one has tangible proofs. There are only suppositions and speculations.

6. Does, the United States - a country with a public debt of over 14 TRILLIONS of Dollars -, have enough money to support the ever increasing expenses of NSA, FBI, CIA, Secret Service, the Pentagon, and all the other agencies?

"Pentagon Five-Year Cybersecurity Plan Seeks $23 Billion"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2013-06-10/pentagon-five-year-cybers...

7. Is it true, or not, that the United States are using "local contributors", from many countries, who deliver to their agencies everything they want to know? I mean, it is cheaper, and easier, to ask a telecommunications company, from Romania, for example, to allow NSA to access the account of a certain individual, instead of trying to bypass the security solution installed on most ISP servers. Because, before getting to your "target", first you must pass the protective barrier of the ISP.

I'm afraid that this "scandal" was artificially created in order to divert our attention from something very ugly - prepared for us, in the near future, by those who secretly rule the world...

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1 week 14 hours ago Best Free Media Player Jorpho

Also please note that by default, PotPlayer seems to lock out aspect ratio controls.

You can fix that with:
1. Preferences - playback - screen size - set screen size as x 1.0 [100%]
2. Preferences - playback - aspect ratio - control - keep aspect ratio [recommended]

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1 week 15 hours ago Best Free Media Player George.J

Thanks for notifying me. Link updated.

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1 week 16 hours ago Best Free Media Player Jorpho

The "beta" download link for PotPlayer does not seem to be working anymore. And the doom9 link requries registration in order to view.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/PotPlayer seems to be much more helpful.

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Kingsoft Office Free 2013 is here!

The interface has been radically changed and a lot cleaner, you don't need to get the full version to change layouts. Please update the review :D

http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/home-office-and-productiv...

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1 week 17 hours ago Best Free Media Player George.J

PotPlayer works independently of WMP, and it can be even run as a portable application. What O.S are you using, and which version of WMP are you running? Could you mention which program that depends on WMP.dll had problems since installing PotPlayer?

While installing PotPlayer it gives you option to associate the media files on your computer, if you wish do so, then all media opens up with PotPlayer as default.

Have you installed any codec packs on your system?

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My ESET Firewall. I understand how bittorrent works (multiple users, etc), but I don't understand why these clients need to talk to 100+ sites during installation and when they're running, but not downloading anything. I never got to the point of actually downloading a torrent.

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It is a great program; which is why I mention it above. However, I find myself more often than not going back to Locate32. It seems to meet my needs and is very quick.

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I believe that DrBongo was stating that the program had been installed on his/her computer, and the recommendation was in the form of an email from this site that this article had been posted. Tech Treats (and other site sections)are available via RSS or email. See the intro above as well as the content in the upper left corner.

Personally, the program was not my main interest at the site. I briefly installed and then uninstalled it.
I find the site information and how it's organized to be extremely helpful and an excellent resource.

If you install the program and run it through the items you've listed please let us know what you find, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be interested. :)

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I prefer Agent Ransack as i don't like Indexing and here on searching even in files it seems to be the fastest (on not heavy, fast SSD it's even just matter of seconds). Always got the results i wanted and with the expressions you can really search with advanced rules.

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