As an alternative to youtube there's torch music ( http://music.torchbrowser.com/ ). It's a relatively new service that uses the youtube library, but it works better in that it doesn't have covers or spam stuff, and the adds don't break up the video flow. Totally free too.
I love You-tube it's full of varied videos lot's of different content but it seems google are trying to upset 90% of it's you tube users by forcing them to have a google plus pages , I can no longer comment on you tube videos until I accept the T&C's of having a google plus page which I don't even want , it's seems not enough people were using google plus so they decided to MAKE people use it ( not really the way to go )
IMO it's unfair to list as a con what "spam" comments that nor YouTube or content providers have no reasonable control over. Spam was first used to refer to unsolicited email. By posting comments for public consumption or post original comments to the content one is in essence soliciting responses. Googles/youtubes attempt to encourage/force the use of real names on YouTube had the potential to move abuse from inside the web into the world where people actually live. A crank angered by a John Doe on the web is likely to harass every John Doe they can find a phone number for. Actually comment on YouTube are some of the most useful on the web, particularly since YouTube got rid of the character limit and allowed inserting of all URL'. Yea you have to ignore the stupid crap, but that's a small price to pay for free. tmy gmail account associated with YouTube isn't my primary email account. The only time a make point to visit my gmail account is when I'm expect something from the google help staff or from the google/YouTube forums. Generally I scroll through the mail and based on the subject mark expect email to be moved to a folder for reading, the remainder is block deleted. I rarely engage in YouTube comment peeing contests
One doesn't have to use Google+ to use you tube, why not setup G+? When using YouTube I given the choice to use my long time anonymous YouTube user name of my G+ name. In the event the ability to comment is so important to anyone they should decide to stop viewing YouTube content after telling the google/YouTube and the content providers of that decision, and carry through with that decision. Clearly YouTube's hope was to clean up comments by having comments associated with what are thought to be real names civility would ensue. Did take sever exchanges with someone at YouTube to discover how I could still use my long time YouTube user name at YouTube, not my G= associated name. Sometimes getting what you think is right takes effort, and patience. Yes policy can change tomorrow. I'm ready to be allowed to watch the videos without commenting, or walk away from YouTube, I doubt few others are ready to do so as well. Anyway not in enough numbers to influance policy.
Hi usadoug, thank you for the comment! You make a good point. I am the same way! rarely will I spend time actually reading comments. YouTube also allows the uploader to disable/remove comments. However I think sometimes comments can border on abusive and/or irrelevant to the video completely. And if something can be done to filter comments more, it should be done. Wouldn't you say?
Movie streaming giant Netflix has lost millions of its users this month, sccording to some reportd, A new website has appeared on thr movie streaming scene, and is quickly becoming an apparent threat to cable companies and other online competitors. read more >> https://movie.siteslikenetflix.com
These are mostly romance novels. I'm interested in freely downloadable epub mysteries by John Dickson Carr, Ross MacDonald, Ngaio Marsh, Leslie Charteris, P.D. James, and about detectives, such as John Cardinal, Harry Dresden, Salvo Montalbano, Jack Reacher, Harry Bosch, Elvis Cole, Alex McKnight, Logan McRae, Armand Gamache, John Rebus, and Lord Peter Wimsey. I've already got all of Agatha Christie's works.
You're in luck - Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series is FREE here: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20080401.
For current books, still within copyright and by authors who are still alive and need to eat, please consider buying an ebook once in a while (and then use Calibre to remove the darn DRM), or just check out what your library has to offer.
Huh. I'm not sure what genre or category (on the left side of the screen) you were looking at, but the categories I checked before posting this had no romance books. I looked at these genres and their categories: Computers and Technology, Travel, Arts and Photography, Reference, and Biographies & Memoirs.
The landing page has a lot of romance novels though, that's for sure.
I think their classification system is jumbled, but the categories and sub-categories are more reflective of the topic.
You could check the Mystery, Thriller & Suspense category for some of those authors, but I'm not sure that any of them would ever show up in the free category. Lee Child (Jack Reacher), Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch) and Robert Crais (Elvis Cole) are all popular authors. I've don't think I've ever seen popular and best-selling authors in the free category, and I've seen only a few authors at that level show up in discounted books. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Amazon's eBooks are downloaded in their propietary format, though they can converted to ePub on the web or using a program like Calibre.
Doesn't work for Australia - keeps transferring to Australian Amazon site - even though US site says ships online to international. Australian site does not have any free.
I suggest you use a browser like EPIC which allows you to specify what country you are coming from. It's free, based on Chrome code and is a useful addition for when you want to do this kind of thing.
The coffee map (No.28) surprised me a bit, and the Chinese names for countries (No.39) are entertaining. Can't make out what they call Slovenia though, I'll have to look that up.
No.1, Google Street View, is nonsense :-) Our town is well within the marked area and we definitely don't have it.
If you really love maps and world statistics then look no further than gapminder.org
The ways you can manipulate the data on a map or graph is inspiring, and you can make some very interesting or downright odd comparisons
the first thing I read today was your message. And your words made my day start better! :-)
Thank you from my heart! And rest assured that I appreciate very much your posts and all you share with us through the years.
*applause*
*thumbs up*
:-D
I prefer creating my own wallpaper categories and searching for nice images to fit them. The personalization option in the confrol panel of Windows 7 allows any folder to be used for desktop backgrounds and the images chosen can be viewed as a screenshow at intervals ranging from 10 seconds to a day.
AT LAST!
A wallpaper changer that starts up with Windows WITH the possibility to stop running after the wallpaper is changed.
And it's portable too. What else could you want more?
Thanks a lot for sharing.
Guys that is the third of fourth time I read the same online...the 360 has anti-theft capabilities, to lock, erase, and locate the phone, not sure what version are you evaluating...most of the others, use the same google locate for that....
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Thanks
Steve
Great list--thanks for all the links. I would add this series of speculative fiction which is mostly classic science fiction by early greats in the genre. Can be listened to again & again. You can find it over at the internet archive. It's called "Mind Webs" a radio series out of WHA radio in Madison WI.
Excellent article :) I think there's a small mistake in the following para. Please correct me if I am wrong. The original is as follows:
"One important point that is made in that article is that it is not possible to install a 32-bit device driver on a 64-bit operating system. This is because device drivers run in parallel to the operating system. The emulation is done at the operating system level so it is available to the higher layer, the application, but it is not available to the device driver which runs on the same level."
The corrected one, which I think should be is as follows:
"One important point that is made in that article is that it is not possible to install a 32-bit device driver on a 64-bit operating system. This is because device drivers run in parallel to the operating system. The emulation is done at the application program level so it is available to the higher layer, the application, but it is not available to the device driver which runs on the same level."
"The emulation is done at the operating system level" not at "the application program level". This is because the emulator has to intercept operating system calls. If the emulator were an application program then it would not normally have sufficient privilege to interfere with the operating system or to supervise other application programs.
This article has been updated with more examples of how to find out if software is 32-bit or 64-bit. Screenshots have been added for Task Manager and Process Explorer.
Remah - Article Editor
I have been given a PC and I want to determine if its 64bit and therefore what OS to purchase. I prefer 64-bit but dont know if this machine is capable.
How do I determine that the hardware is 64 bit capable when there is no operating system installed?
Yes, it is hard to find an article that shows you how to find out what processor is installed when you don't have an operating system loaded to start the computer.
If you know the name of the processor (CPU) in your computer then you can find out if it is 64-bit by searching online. Most new CPUs are at least 64-bit.
Here is an example using an 8 year-old "Intel Core 2 Duo T7500". I've provided links to the relevant Wikipedia articles: Intel is the manufacturer and the article has links to each generation and brand of CPUs. Core 2 is the brand of processor. The article says "Core 2 is a brand encompassing a range of Intel's consumer 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core microprocessors based on the Core microarchitecture." Duo means the CPU has two or dual cores. T7500 is the model or processor number. Intel has its own ARK search tool which provides this T7500 specification sheet where is says the "Instruction set" is 64-bit.
Earlier i replaced the hard drive on my Windows 7, 64-bit HP. The tech department at work installed a 32-bit version of windows 7 professional. When the upgrade to windows 10 occurs, and since it is apparently occurring through windows update, will it automatically install the 32-bit version or will I have an option to install the 64-bit version? I wasn't able to find this answer in my brief search. Thank you in advance!
I can't be definitive but it will almost certainly work the same way it does for earlier Windows releases as with 32-bit Windows upgrade to 64-bit Windows 8. The upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit cannot be done using the Upgrade Advisor or any other automatic method. It has to be done manually with a clean install.
To upgrade to Windows 8 it was more expensive to go from 32-bit to 64-bit because the cheapest upgrade path was using the default upgrade from 32-bit to 32-bit. If Windows upgrades from 7 and 8 to 10 are free then there may be no difference.
thanks nice collection of wallpapers....
there are latest Halloween wallpaper 2019 if anyone wants to download
https://merrychristmashappynewyear2020.blogspot.com/2019/10/halloween-hd-wallpaper-2019.html
C. Dominik Bodi with each of the 24 promotional CDs of Baen's free science fiction novels available in ISO, has new address:
https://baen.dominikbodi.de/
I checked a couple out and they are running at very good speeds. I have not checked the books out yet.
The Mercury Theater On The Air has great stuff and runs at excellent speeds.
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What fun...not into creating your own beats and the mandalas will take a bit of time for me to get used to doing as am not an artist. That said, The Useless Web is a cross between the ridiculous, to the funny, to the WTF...loved it. This is sand showed me what colors really do not work, but also enjoyed that. My favorite is Bored.com...tried several hidden object games and had a good time. You're right, good distractions to take a break for a few minutes. Thanx much rhiannon.
Should have thought to add to your list...I go to www.jigzone.com and www.thejigsawpuzzles.com for breaks as you can choose the puzzles, piece numbers and type of pieces you want to do. Can do 25 piece puzzles that take only a few minutes or more pieces that will take longer. These are good for me when I'm done with everything else and want to clear my mind from the day's problems. Also www.themahjong.com a tile matching game that moves quickly and you can do a many or as few as you like. All of these are great for kids too. Grandkids like them.
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This has been very helpful. Thank you,
As an alternative to youtube there's torch music ( http://music.torchbrowser.com/ ). It's a relatively new service that uses the youtube library, but it works better in that it doesn't have covers or spam stuff, and the adds don't break up the video flow. Totally free too.
IMO it's unfair to list as a con what "spam" comments that nor YouTube or content providers have no reasonable control over. Spam was first used to refer to unsolicited email. By posting comments for public consumption or post original comments to the content one is in essence soliciting responses. Googles/youtubes attempt to encourage/force the use of real names on YouTube had the potential to move abuse from inside the web into the world where people actually live. A crank angered by a John Doe on the web is likely to harass every John Doe they can find a phone number for. Actually comment on YouTube are some of the most useful on the web, particularly since YouTube got rid of the character limit and allowed inserting of all URL'. Yea you have to ignore the stupid crap, but that's a small price to pay for free. tmy gmail account associated with YouTube isn't my primary email account. The only time a make point to visit my gmail account is when I'm expect something from the google help staff or from the google/YouTube forums. Generally I scroll through the mail and based on the subject mark expect email to be moved to a folder for reading, the remainder is block deleted. I rarely engage in YouTube comment peeing contests
One doesn't have to use Google+ to use you tube, why not setup G+? When using YouTube I given the choice to use my long time anonymous YouTube user name of my G+ name. In the event the ability to comment is so important to anyone they should decide to stop viewing YouTube content after telling the google/YouTube and the content providers of that decision, and carry through with that decision. Clearly YouTube's hope was to clean up comments by having comments associated with what are thought to be real names civility would ensue. Did take sever exchanges with someone at YouTube to discover how I could still use my long time YouTube user name at YouTube, not my G= associated name. Sometimes getting what you think is right takes effort, and patience. Yes policy can change tomorrow. I'm ready to be allowed to watch the videos without commenting, or walk away from YouTube, I doubt few others are ready to do so as well. Anyway not in enough numbers to influance policy.
Hi usadoug, thank you for the comment! You make a good point. I am the same way! rarely will I spend time actually reading comments. YouTube also allows the uploader to disable/remove comments. However I think sometimes comments can border on abusive and/or irrelevant to the video completely. And if something can be done to filter comments more, it should be done. Wouldn't you say?
http://onevidtube.com/ is great one that support maximum size of 2 GB
Movie streaming giant Netflix has lost millions of its users this month, sccording to some reportd, A new website has appeared on thr movie streaming scene, and is quickly becoming an apparent threat to cable companies and other online competitors. read more >> https://movie.siteslikenetflix.com
For an Android app, the video link on how to calibrate was for an Iphone.
Not there anymore in google play.
Sadly this is for US based Kindle customers only
These are mostly romance novels. I'm interested in freely downloadable epub mysteries by John Dickson Carr, Ross MacDonald, Ngaio Marsh, Leslie Charteris, P.D. James, and about detectives, such as John Cardinal, Harry Dresden, Salvo Montalbano, Jack Reacher, Harry Bosch, Elvis Cole, Alex McKnight, Logan McRae, Armand Gamache, John Rebus, and Lord Peter Wimsey. I've already got all of Agatha Christie's works.
Much of these books are garbage romance written by women. Even free they are overpriced because they would take up valuable space on your device..
You're in luck - Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series is FREE here: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20080401.
For current books, still within copyright and by authors who are still alive and need to eat, please consider buying an ebook once in a while (and then use Calibre to remove the darn DRM), or just check out what your library has to offer.
Huh. I'm not sure what genre or category (on the left side of the screen) you were looking at, but the categories I checked before posting this had no romance books. I looked at these genres and their categories: Computers and Technology, Travel, Arts and Photography, Reference, and Biographies & Memoirs.
The landing page has a lot of romance novels though, that's for sure.
I think their classification system is jumbled, but the categories and sub-categories are more reflective of the topic.
You could check the Mystery, Thriller & Suspense category for some of those authors, but I'm not sure that any of them would ever show up in the free category. Lee Child (Jack Reacher), Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch) and Robert Crais (Elvis Cole) are all popular authors. I've don't think I've ever seen popular and best-selling authors in the free category, and I've seen only a few authors at that level show up in discounted books. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Amazon's eBooks are downloaded in their propietary format, though they can converted to ePub on the web or using a program like Calibre.
Sadly, that is often the case. :(
I'll amend the article, thank you for mentioning it.
Doesn't work for Australia - keeps transferring to Australian Amazon site - even though US site says ships online to international. Australian site does not have any free.
I suggest you use a browser like EPIC which allows you to specify what country you are coming from. It's free, based on Chrome code and is a useful addition for when you want to do this kind of thing.
Good suggestion. :)
You would still need an amazon us account to download books.
I already have over 16,000 FREE eBooks ! Thanks.
You're welcome. :) That's quite a few books!
Great site - thanks for passing on this tip.
Thanks rob.... nice find !
cheers
Fascinating stuff, thanks for posting.
The coffee map (No.28) surprised me a bit, and the Chinese names for countries (No.39) are entertaining. Can't make out what they call Slovenia though, I'll have to look that up.
No.1, Google Street View, is nonsense :-) Our town is well within the marked area and we definitely don't have it.
Well now, that was a really cool diversion! Thanks.
*thumbs up*
Thank you, rob! :-)
If you really love maps and world statistics then look no further than gapminder.org
The ways you can manipulate the data on a map or graph is inspiring, and you can make some very interesting or downright odd comparisons
Thank you for free apps...
WOW!
Thank you so much, rhiannon... and let's share one more Christmas time! :-)
"You will get a sentimental feeling....when you hear
Voices singing let's be jolly....
Deck the halls with boughs of holly"
Excellent link and wonderful pictures!
I'm happy you like them. :)
Hear, hear. :)
rhiannon,
the first thing I read today was your message. And your words made my day start better! :-)
Thank you from my heart! And rest assured that I appreciate very much your posts and all you share with us through the years.
*applause*
*thumbs up*
:-D
Awwww, that's so nice of you to say.......... :)
I prefer creating my own wallpaper categories and searching for nice images to fit them. The personalization option in the confrol panel of Windows 7 allows any folder to be used for desktop backgrounds and the images chosen can be viewed as a screenshow at intervals ranging from 10 seconds to a day.
AT LAST!
A wallpaper changer that starts up with Windows WITH the possibility to stop running after the wallpaper is changed.
And it's portable too. What else could you want more?
Thanks a lot for sharing.
Thanks Rhiannon.
Excelent!
Peter
I'm delighted you like it! ☺
In similar vein:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
Good source, thank you.
Guys that is the third of fourth time I read the same online...the 360 has anti-theft capabilities, to lock, erase, and locate the phone, not sure what version are you evaluating...most of the others, use the same google locate for that....
Great list--thanks for all the links. I would add this series of speculative fiction which is mostly classic science fiction by early greats in the genre. Can be listened to again & again. You can find it over at the internet archive. It's called "Mind Webs" a radio series out of WHA radio in Madison WI.
https://archive.org/details/MindWebs_201410
Thanks. There are some nice icons here
I'm glad you like them. I thought the same. :)
WOW! That is one extensive listing with so many icons to see & look at, it'll wear out my eyes! Thanks for the great find as always!
You're welcome. :) I'm happy you like it. I thought there were some nice ones in there and some unique subjects.
Excellent article :) I think there's a small mistake in the following para. Please correct me if I am wrong. The original is as follows:
"One important point that is made in that article is that it is not possible to install a 32-bit device driver on a 64-bit operating system. This is because device drivers run in parallel to the operating system. The emulation is done at the operating system level so it is available to the higher layer, the application, but it is not available to the device driver which runs on the same level."
The corrected one, which I think should be is as follows:
"One important point that is made in that article is that it is not possible to install a 32-bit device driver on a 64-bit operating system. This is because device drivers run in parallel to the operating system. The emulation is done at the application program level so it is available to the higher layer, the application, but it is not available to the device driver which runs on the same level."
Nicely explained
I have been given a PC and I want to determine if its 64bit and therefore what OS to purchase. I prefer 64-bit but dont know if this machine is capable.
How do I determine that the hardware is 64 bit capable when there is no operating system installed?
Yes, it is hard to find an article that shows you how to find out what processor is installed when you don't have an operating system loaded to start the computer.
If you know the name of the processor (CPU) in your computer then you can find out if it is 64-bit by searching online. Most new CPUs are at least 64-bit.
Here is an example using an 8 year-old "Intel Core 2 Duo T7500". I've provided links to the relevant Wikipedia articles: Intel is the manufacturer and the article has links to each generation and brand of CPUs. Core 2 is the brand of processor. The article says "Core 2 is a brand encompassing a range of Intel's consumer 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core microprocessors based on the Core microarchitecture." Duo means the CPU has two or dual cores. T7500 is the model or processor number. Intel has its own ARK search tool which provides this T7500 specification sheet where is says the "Instruction set" is 64-bit.
Other processors can also be found on Wikipedia or at the manufacturer's website: AMD processors at amd.com VIA processors at via.com
Earlier i replaced the hard drive on my Windows 7, 64-bit HP. The tech department at work installed a 32-bit version of windows 7 professional. When the upgrade to windows 10 occurs, and since it is apparently occurring through windows update, will it automatically install the 32-bit version or will I have an option to install the 64-bit version? I wasn't able to find this answer in my brief search. Thank you in advance!
I can't be definitive but it will almost certainly work the same way it does for earlier Windows releases as with 32-bit Windows upgrade to 64-bit Windows 8. The upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit cannot be done using the Upgrade Advisor or any other automatic method. It has to be done manually with a clean install.
To upgrade to Windows 8 it was more expensive to go from 32-bit to 64-bit because the cheapest upgrade path was using the default upgrade from 32-bit to 32-bit. If Windows upgrades from 7 and 8 to 10 are free then there may be no difference.
Possible mistake: The reference to "WOW32" could perhaps be "WOW64"
Well spotted. Now corrected. That mistake had been there for years. :)
This article has been updated to reflect some of the changes in the last decade and now includes memory limits for Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10.
Remah
Editor of this article
An excellent collection of Halloween wallpapers. I was thinking of using an image of Donald Trump....but that's just too scary.
An excellant collection rhiannon
thanks
Alan
OMG... I'm scared! :-O X-D
*thumbs up* to rhiannon! :-)
Hahahahaha! X-D
thanks nice collection of wallpapers....
there are latest Halloween wallpaper 2019 if anyone wants to download
https://merrychristmashappynewyear2020.blogspot.com/2019/10/halloween-hd-wallpaper-2019.html
Can I access the I Tunes courses (at TSA) with a Windows OS?
Also you download free the website content: http://www.locutortv.es/musicalibredederechos_music_free.htm . It is my web and it is free download.
C. Dominik Bodi with each of the 24 promotional CDs of Baen's free science fiction novels available in ISO, has new address:
https://baen.dominikbodi.de/
I checked a couple out and they are running at very good speeds. I have not checked the books out yet.
The Mercury Theater On The Air has great stuff and runs at excellent speeds.
MiniNova's Featured Content, SuprNova.org and Vodo are dead links.
Great collection of links. Thanks for posting, I love horror : )
What fun...not into creating your own beats and the mandalas will take a bit of time for me to get used to doing as am not an artist. That said, The Useless Web is a cross between the ridiculous, to the funny, to the WTF...loved it. This is sand showed me what colors really do not work, but also enjoyed that. My favorite is Bored.com...tried several hidden object games and had a good time. You're right, good distractions to take a break for a few minutes. Thanx much rhiannon.
You're very welcome. :)
Should have thought to add to your list...I go to www.jigzone.com and www.thejigsawpuzzles.com for breaks as you can choose the puzzles, piece numbers and type of pieces you want to do. Can do 25 piece puzzles that take only a few minutes or more pieces that will take longer. These are good for me when I'm done with everything else and want to clear my mind from the day's problems. Also www.themahjong.com a tile matching game that moves quickly and you can do a many or as few as you like. All of these are great for kids too. Grandkids like them.
Jigzone is a terrific site, I've been visiting it for years. I'll have a look at the others, thanks for the suggestions. :)
Oh Nooooo... Sand is wonderful.
Useless? Mostly. But www.sanger.dk - pure genius!!
THANK YOU!!!
Those interested in creating music beats will find ButtonBass far superior to Madeon.
Thanks for the suggestion. :)
Nice Post..This is the Great Sites To Waste Your Time On.You can also visit: https://www.blogtechonline.com/amazing-websites/
Great tip and really useful.
Thanks.
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