Re: CM Security Antivirus App Lock
CM Security also offer CM Security Lite - Antivirus which uses less power, less memory and has fewer ads.
It seems to work quite satisfactorily.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cmsecurity.lite
Just to point out to people before they download the document that it is dated January 2011, and some of the programs have not performed well subsequently, notably Microsoft Security Essentials, which has now failed AV-TEST certification twice in a row, and has received generally very poor reviews from a number of different sources in recent times.
Auslogics, whilst being my personal favourite defragmenter, was completely missing from Gizmo's recommended list for nearly a year until it crept back in a couple of months ago.
As Gizmo's own list, this is independent of and not influenced by our existing review content. The AV-Test results are only relevant to those who use their computer (of which I know none) in exactly the same way as described in the tests. These things also need to be taken in context.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2013/01/16/lessons-learned-from-...
MSE is widely used in my own circle, including for business use, and no one is getting infected.
The same goes for the AV Comparatives so called Real World Protection Tests. If you read the full description, you come across this:
"Tested on Winxp SP3.
Initially we planned to test this year with a fully updated/patched system, but we had to switch back using older/vulnerable/unpatched OS and software versions due to lack of enough exploits in-the-field to test against”.
So, they used an out of date system + programs that were neither updated nor patched, and folks using the current Microsoft system, and the last, are using these stats to choose their antivirus??? :)
How on earth can they call this a “real world” test?
MC - Site Manager.
I have to say my own experiences with MSE were rather different. Things were fine for about a year and then it let through the Clean This ransomware variant, masquerading as MSE. Instead of killing the process I clicked on the close button and the resulting carnage was a nightmare to clear up. I've been using Avast for over 18 months now and I've had no problems at all.
Unwisely I had it disabled at the time. So, yes, there were contributory factors, but I would still have expected MSE to deal with it. Now I think of it, there were a number of other problems. MSE fairly regularly failed to block various trojans over the period I was using it which only became apparent when I scanned with MBAM.
To be exposed to "various trojans" suggests high risk browsing. No antivirus will protect users in this category, whereas far more simple measures will reduce the risk considerably (including not disabling UAC).
I've tried to cover this in a bit more detail here.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/safe-computing-under-hour.htm
There are of course different combinations that users may prefer and since I wrote the above article I've been using ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus and Firewall over an extended period with no problems and no infections. I have this paired with WOT, Norton DNS and the free version of WinPatrol. I test Windows software extensively, often in response to visitor comments, and I always check what each program is trying to do to my system with ToolWiz Time Freeze before committing to a full install.
MC - Site Manager.
Thanks for the info. Very useful article too which I hadn't seen before. I wouldn't say my browsing is high risk but after the 'Clean This' incident I enabled UAC, ditched MSE, disabled Windows (Vista) firewall, stopped using IE and replaced them with the following: Avast free AV and Comodo firewall with D+ enabled (Chiron's guide made installation and setup simple). Like you I also use WOT, Norton ConnectSafe and WinPatrol free. I mainly use Chromium based Comodo Dragon browser with many of the extensions you recommend in your article, and this setup has served me very well for some time now. MBAM and Hitman Pro haven't found a single nasty.
I'm pleased you found the other article useful.
True PC security will always be about risk management (as opposed to hunting for stuff after it has arrived) and in this respect a combination of tools will always be preferable to relying on a single program to do everything. Unfortunately, due mainly to the marketing of various programs, many users are lulled into a false sense of security when they see security programs labelled for example as "total" or "360".
The setup you describe now is absolutely ideal for someone who is knowledgeable enough to maintain it. This refers mainly to Comodo but as you discovered already, Chiron's guide makes this a lot easier. MC - Site Manager.
March 7, 2013, new sites added. All links checked and working.
I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.
If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.
If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).
Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.
Thanks
Steve
April 7, 2013,6 new sites added and 2 dead sites removed. All links here checked and working.
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Steve
July 14, 2013, 27 new sites added and 2 dead sites removed. All links here checked and working.
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Steve
An excellent find. The fascinating field of computer forensics is certain to grow and provide well paid employment for investigators in the future. Wish this science had been around 45 years ago when I came out of high school.
Was already mentioned in rhiannon's "Finds of the week" of 2015, Dec 15th (http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/finds-week-brilliant-time-zone-site-520000-awesome-free-high-quality-images-using-metered)
You will occasionally find images on Pixabay that are watermarked, apparently to protect them from free distribution. Nevertheless, Pixabay is an outstanding source for images that may legally be used.
Pixabay is the go to photo stock place for me! The images are high quality and free to use! I find different photographers I like and follow them. That way, I get photo updates each time these photographers post any new images. Many of my peers in design are on to Pixabay, too! I think it is an awesome site!
Su
When i looked just now, i saw two photographic images featuring plush toy versions of trademarked characters (Kermit and the pink Panther), which i am pretty sure it would be better to not use on your website.
If I remember correctly, earlier, Pixabay didn't have any sorting by category. It was just a long neverending list of scrolling photos, which made it difficult to navigate, in case you decided to stop looking, and wanted to see the images again some other time.
Now, they have made categories of photos, and have also introduced image navigation by pages, which makes it easier to navigate through the photos. And you can continue looking from where you left the last time by bookmarking the page.
I'm not up on that kind of copyright or trademark law, and in any case, it varies wildly from country to country. It's probably not enforceable on a global basis, unless you have a lot of money to pursue the issue around the globe in each case an image is used. If someone could find you legally liable for taking a photo or creating an image that contains something that's copyrighted, there's a lot of people in trouble - for example, what about an image someone posts on a site such as Facebook, where a person holding a copyrighted/trademarked object like Kermit the Frog? Or, more likely, a can of trademarked beer? Photographs are protected under their own copyright laws I think, as are books, manuscripts and other written content. I'm not sure where trademark infringement would apply to photos.
Thanks, I am a blogger and forever I need to grab some photos, so I will certainly give these shot.
What I tend to do is
google search for images -> then click search tools -> Usage rights ->labeled for reuse.
Generally, I can get my photo there. If that fails, I go to the wiki but I will try these too now.
One point is the legal status of most of the photos on the web is unclear, I have been assured that many photos on the net are not protected by copyright despite all the labels put on them. I suppose it depends how much you are willing to take a chance.
I'm sorry @bernardz but I think you've been poorly advised. My understanding is that, in the UK and USA at least, all photos posted to the net (or used anywhere else) have full copyright status unless explicitly revoked - this can be done by a statement on the web page or (better) embedded in the photo's EXIF/IPTC metadata. Just because some photos on the net have no EXIF or IPTC metadata, this does NOT mean that the photographer's or owner's copyright does not apply.
Having said that, most photographers will not mind one of their pictures being used in a blog article in a fair way. What really upsets photographers is when a commercial company takes a photograph off the net and uses it in advertising material without properly licensing it.
Like everything Bob, it's not so clear nothing ever is. Say in your example, I had a picture of my wife on a beach, how do I show its likely that I was the photographer if its disputed? Could she not argue her friend took it not me? As I am a non professional photographer, I cannot argue I have suffered any loss.
Here is a chart that I use that I think would be beneficial to the readers here. how accurate it is, if it came to court I do not know.
I have able to get 7-PDF maker to create a PDF file from an Open Office produced paper that contains many superscript footnotes with corresponding endnotes. The OpenOffice text file works great by itself: footnote and endnote are linked in Both directions. But creating a PDF using 7-PDF Maker only creates the link in one direction: from the footnote to the endnote and NOT back to the footnote. So then you have to manually scroll back to the beginning of the paper to find where footnote is located.
Question: Am I not doing something correct or will 7-PDF Maker only keep the link in one direction and not two.
Please help if you can.
Thank you
The current version is simply demo-ware. It adds a large red watermark on every page it converts. It faithfully converted the single Word document I tested it with. But, if you are looking for a free program to convert even a small number of files or files of limited size, look elsewhere.
Where's thejigsawpuzzles.com? Love this site, no downloading of anything, just play on site. Have been using this site for years now and was concerned about the phaseout of Adobe Flash, but they said they are ready for the change over. You can choose how many pieces you want to do in any of the hundreds of puzzles there. Also choose the type of puzzle pieces you want to work with...classic, etc.. You can Full Screen, if needed, any puzzle to work on it. My 92-yr-old Mom had been doing a puzzle every day for yrs before she passed. Cannot say about doing any on a mobile phone though.
Can say the people there are great...any problem just email and they get back to you within 24 hours, if not sooner. BTW, you do not have to sign in or even have an account to do any puzzle, though the site will keep track of all the puzzles you do if you sign in...unlike Jigzone and a few others where you have to try to remember which ones you've done in the past.
For years, I have been using TheJigsawPuzzles.com. It has a database of thousands of puzzles, sorted by category. You can choose from 20 to 500 pieces and there are several different cut styles.
AccuRadio is one of about a dozen music streaming sites I have bookmarked. My only real complaint regarding it is that you can't prevent notifications from arriving in your e-mail account. Pandora, Spotify and Deezer are the most popular alternatives although my personal favorite is still Tune-in Radio.
I love somafm.com. The site is set by genre. I pretty much listen to trance or jazz and there's no commercials (listener supported). Try Lush and see what you think?
Every email service, program, provider web site or the like I have seen so far had some option to block sending addresses. Even clunky Yahoo Mail and thus AT&T email has it.
You know if the web site does not allow me to turn off their annoying email junk then I send the emails directly to the virtual garbage bin and they loose the chance to ever again talk to me from that email address. Ever heard an ad for Constant Contact? I despise that just as much as you do.
To clarify - Pandora says it has Southern Gospel, but it is really Christian Country. Southern Gospel would be artists like Gold City, Greater Vision, The Hoppers, The Crabb Family, The Cathedrals, Promised Land Quartet, etc.
I like several genres, decades and artists all of which are on separate channel. Does any streaming service support selecting multiple channels and get random play from all of them?
One of the best features of Accuradio imo is that it it doesn't have a skip limit. You could skip 100 songs in 5 minutes if you wanted, and it just keeps spitting out new tunes.
The newly released material are not the seven Cornell lectures of 1964, but a two-year series that Feynman delivered over (about) 1963 through 1965 to freshmen and sophomores at CalTech. (For the final year, I was a teaching assistant for the course. We graduate students learned much more than the undergraduates.)
For many, the Feynman, Leighton and Sands set (with their bright red covers) is a treasured part of their library.
Some may recall a saying from the 1960s (the halcyon days of science education in the U.S.), "At Caltech, we treat our undergraduates as graduate students, and our graduate students as faculty." One brief shining moment...
THANK YOU, Rhiannon!! WELL DONE. I have been looking, waiting, wondering about what to do about November 1. Why did Google decide to ditch igoogle?? I thought maybe they were going to come out with a bigger and better version, or a slimmed down likeness, not just drop it and walk away. Not very good PR I'd think. I have been using it from the very beginning, enjoyed the artwork on special days, found it very convenient. It had to be a very big billboard for the Google name and business.
lowndesw;
Why thank you, that made my day. :)
I don't think anyone other than Google knows why they are shutting down iGoogle and Google Reader. It makes no sense to those of us who enjoy using those services. I haven't come across any official explanation from them. I've seen quite a bit of speculation on various sites so we aren't the only ones wondering.
Good stuff Rhiannon. But what I missed most in your "best 6" detail was, can the Google bookmarks and passwords be imported into them (?) or if indeed they can save passwords or will "Password Box" (or other?)work with them.
That qualifies as pretty important to me and probably many other readers.
Hope you can find the time to report back... Regards
Thanks very much for those. I had a quick look at a few iGoogle replacements back when its closure was first announced, but couldn't find anything I liked so put it on a backburner.
I wasn't aware of igHome, however, and having just easily set up and customised it, I have to say that for my purposes it seems just perfect. I particularly like the way you can customise the news gadgets to show only headlines or also description and images, adjust the font size, and the height of the gadgets by pixels. Thanks so much.
On a related note, Feedly is still looking like a terrific Google Reader replacement, and is getting even better. They're responding to their new users by swiftly adding many of the options requested.
Michael 2007;
igHome was suggested by one of our users. Most of the news aggregators are have been gearing up, trying to deal with the incoming users.
I'm interested to see how it all shakes out. :)
I really like the customisation options I mentioned before, and also the bold font option. I've also customised the Black Bar Links by taking out a few I don't often use, and adding a few of my favourite websites, (including this one, of course), so now I'm all set.
aripper;
To the best of my knowledge, igHome and Symbaloo will import bookmarks from Google bookmarks or Google Chrome. igHome and Symbaloo list that in their descriptions.
Protopage has a bookmark feature but as far as I can tell it doesn't import anything, you add frequently visited sites into the bookmark widget one at a time.
aripper;
I didn't see passwords mentioned in any of the sites, I'm thinking the security to store passwords isn't really workable for news aggregators though I could be wrong on that.I'm not clear on which passwords you want to import - if you're wanting to import websites and passwords I can suggest lastpass.com.
Great collection Rhiannon, I've been looking around for an iGoogle replacement so thank you for all the suggestions. Protopage and Ig are my favourites I think though I've bookmarked them all for a proper look later.
For something simple and ready-to-go I'd just like to mention the Maxthon homepage which I only discovered fairly recently while casting around for an alternative browser. It isn't very configurable but it's pretty handy as a basic homepage.
Thanks also for the uStart suggestion, although LastPass flags it as an insecure log in.
sicknero;
Thanks for the tip about the Maxthon home page. The other thing I've noted in my wandering is how many ISP's and other services have their own home pages. I haven't checked into many of them - I ran across ones for Wildblue and Earthlink. I'm sure there are more.
YES, thank you! I've been wondering what I was going to do come November since I use iGoogle all day, every day. After testing out several of the options mentioned here & in the comments, I settled on igHome. The only drawback is that I can't get Google Tasks to work on it, but other than that, it's a pretty seamless transition from iGoogle. Thanks again!
Hmmm. I tried that but it doesn't format properly due to having multiple task lists under one account. Perhaps that's also why the Google Tasks gadget for igHome isn't working for me.
I'm not sure what you mean about not formatting properly. I don't use Tasks a lot myself but I added an extra list just now and it seems fine, there's a button at the bottom right to switch between lists and they seem to be displaying properly...
I did a couple of screenshots, I can't seem to upload them here but you can see them in dropbox -
Very timely and useful list, Rhiannon. Thanks! I have been using Protopage for about a year and it is nice, though a bit clunky. There is a feature where you can scrape a webpage and specify X and Y coordinates so you can see just the part of the webpage you want. I did this to see the weather radar for my area. Great, right? Well, the radar map moved every so often and I had to fuss with the settings. In the last few months, it has been broken and I haven't got around to deleting it.
After I read your article, I tried out some of the suggestions. Symbaloo looked really nice and I started in building my page. Unfortunately, it looks like you cannot tell if you have unread articles from the tile. I tried to go to support to suggest the change. I was surprised to find their suggestion system would not accept entries and there was no other way to contact support. This is a non-starter for me. On to the next one.
I was less than wowed by the others but I will try uStart. Thanks to those who suggested it above.
I used Netvibes for years and was frustrated off and on by random breakage of an app or feed. A few months back, multiple apps just stopped working and several of my rss were suddenly erased. I could have rebuilt things, but decided the lack of stability was too great. I now alternate between Protopage and igHome. Both have their advantages.
I've spent a while playing with igHome, I quite like it... everything on it can be be pretty much added or deleted as you please which is good, and it has a very pleasing absence of in-your-face integration with social media, although it seems that this is there for those who want it.
It has quite a handy Google-style toolbar at the top, a definite plus there being that you can configure the buttons for whatever shortcuts you want by just entering a URL in preferences.
Downsides - the actual appearance, although not at all unpleasant, isn't very customisable - you can change the size of the gadgets in settings (though zooming the page achieves that globally) but the width appears to be something you're stuck with, and you have the same iGoogle style options of background colours or images, along with (as far as I could tell) pretty much all the same gadgets to choose from. Some of which don't work, which is as promised just like iGoogle :-D
On the other hand I've spent about an hour playing around with Protopage this evening, and I have to say I like it a lot more now than I did when I started. Again there's a very satisfying ability to clear all traces of twitter and fb etc from the page.
The appearance and layout is a lot more customisable than igHome ... I especially like that you can give each gadget its own colouring and to some extent resize them as well, for example I can have my google calendar gadget stretched out to cover quite a large area which makes it a lot more readable. This isn't perfect though - for instance the analogue clock which is quite nice can't be resized to look good. The smallest size of the gadget is still twice as big as the clock itself so the end result is a bit messy and unattractive. It seems that 1/3 of page width is the minimum for a gadget though I might have missed a setting somewhere. The collapse/expand button is handy.
Also a definite oversight to my mind is the lack of any option to change fonts, and it would nice to have a choice of rounded corners on the gadgets.
The option for public/private - which apparently you can apply separately to different components - is intriguing though I'm not sure I'd ever find a use for it, and I do like the default notepad gadget which appears to sync online as well. Very handy.
A very nice feature is the mouseover bubble on news stories (would be great to have that on the Google Calendar gadget too) and the inclusion of a mini-player for podcasts is very very nice, although I would like to be able to drag that around the window. The search bar is quite attractive with the ability to add/remove engines including custom ones.
Lastly for now, there seems to be a pretty decent selection of community-developed gadgets which I've not looked properly through yet.
Oops this started off as a quick reply, but it turned into a bit of an essay sorry :-) I'm undecided... igHome is easy on the eye but I'm very drawn to Protopage's configurabilty and podcast player and that apparently syncing notepad. I might just keep both, or maybe neither ... it's ages now since I used iGoogle and I can't say it's left a huge hole in my internet day.
Also to be fair, anything that I found to be absent or not working might well be down to my own oversight or security add ons in my browser.
I find all of these full of stuff I don't need and overly cluttered. Used to use Symbaloo but got annoyed by some major changes and downtime foisted on users. My focus is on bookmarks, so I like start.io and, for a bit more eye-candy, mylinkcloud.com which is flashier but not quite as solid.
An alternative I've found practical is not using a start page at all, but replacing it with customized start tabs. There are a quite a few alternatives out there for various browsers.
E.g. StartHQ (http://starthq.com)- for people that use a lot of web apps and want power and control over them, or Start!(search for "start chrome extension)- for you want quick access to bookmarks and rss feeds.
I have made Protopage my Start Page. But, I want to change my mind and use IG. How do I delete Protopage? Is it just a tab in Firefox? And IG would be another tab? However, I'd like to get rid of Protopage altogether.
As far as I know all the start pages listed are web sites, there are no programs you can delete. You can go to any of the sites by clicking on their links in the above article.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'made Protopage your start page'. Did you set it as your home page in your browser settings? This article tells you how to change your home page in most of the major browsers:
How to change my browsers home page.
You can use it to check if you've set Protopage as your home page. You can set any page to become a home page, leave it blank, or use a bookmark to go to a site you want to use as a home page.
I was just composing a post in reply to Rosie's but got thoroughly distracted by the details as always :-)
The thing is that just changing your Start Page/Home Page doesn't actually delete your Protopage, it's still out there on the internet which to me is a bit untidy and too much of a loose end ...
However, I had a good look around on my own Protopage and I can find nothing straightforward for deleting the whole page, or for closing the account, which sadly is the case with a lot of things like this.
If it were me I would remove everything from the Protopage first, and then use the "Contact Us" link at top-right to ask that the account be closed and the page deleted. I'd also go into my email account and revoke any access permissions that I'd granted for email widgets or calendar widgets or whatever.
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Re: CM Security Antivirus App Lock
CM Security also offer CM Security Lite - Antivirus which uses less power, less memory and has fewer ads.
It seems to work quite satisfactorily.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cmsecurity.lite
As long as you aren't rooting, no one needs an antivirus on your phone.
KeePassDroid is OK - But Keepass2Android is far superior!
Don't bet on that. There are exploits that can attack unrooted Android devices.
An antivirus is not going to stop it. Manufacturers putting out timely security updates will.
...and until they do, there's anti-malware software.
Waze (owned by Google now) is rapidly becoming a "must have" for anyone that drives a car, truck, bicycle, stroller, skateboard.......
and, IF you live in the city, or the country, or in between.
Just to point out to people before they download the document that it is dated January 2011, and some of the programs have not performed well subsequently, notably Microsoft Security Essentials, which has now failed AV-TEST certification twice in a row, and has received generally very poor reviews from a number of different sources in recent times.
Auslogics, whilst being my personal favourite defragmenter, was completely missing from Gizmo's recommended list for nearly a year until it crept back in a couple of months ago.
Any chance of an updated list?
I have to say my own experiences with MSE were rather different. Things were fine for about a year and then it let through the Clean This ransomware variant, masquerading as MSE. Instead of killing the process I clicked on the close button and the resulting carnage was a nightmare to clear up. I've been using Avast for over 18 months now and I've had no problems at all.
Unwisely I had it disabled at the time. So, yes, there were contributory factors, but I would still have expected MSE to deal with it. Now I think of it, there were a number of other problems. MSE fairly regularly failed to block various trojans over the period I was using it which only became apparent when I scanned with MBAM.
Thanks for the info. Very useful article too which I hadn't seen before. I wouldn't say my browsing is high risk but after the 'Clean This' incident I enabled UAC, ditched MSE, disabled Windows (Vista) firewall, stopped using IE and replaced them with the following: Avast free AV and Comodo firewall with D+ enabled (Chiron's guide made installation and setup simple). Like you I also use WOT, Norton ConnectSafe and WinPatrol free. I mainly use Chromium based Comodo Dragon browser with many of the extensions you recommend in your article, and this setup has served me very well for some time now. MBAM and Hitman Pro haven't found a single nasty.
Thanks. Can't wait to check these out.
An excellent find. The fascinating field of computer forensics is certain to grow and provide well paid employment for investigators in the future. Wish this science had been around 45 years ago when I came out of high school.
It fascinates me as well. :)
Was already mentioned in rhiannon's "Finds of the week" of 2015, Dec 15th (http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/finds-week-brilliant-time-zone-site-520000-awesome-free-high-quality-images-using-metered)
You will occasionally find images on Pixabay that are watermarked, apparently to protect them from free distribution. Nevertheless, Pixabay is an outstanding source for images that may legally be used.
Pixabay is the go to photo stock place for me! The images are high quality and free to use! I find different photographers I like and follow them. That way, I get photo updates each time these photographers post any new images. Many of my peers in design are on to Pixabay, too! I think it is an awesome site!
Su
When i looked just now, i saw two photographic images featuring plush toy versions of trademarked characters (Kermit and the pink Panther), which i am pretty sure it would be better to not use on your website.
If I remember correctly, earlier, Pixabay didn't have any sorting by category. It was just a long neverending list of scrolling photos, which made it difficult to navigate, in case you decided to stop looking, and wanted to see the images again some other time.
Now, they have made categories of photos, and have also introduced image navigation by pages, which makes it easier to navigate through the photos. And you can continue looking from where you left the last time by bookmarking the page.
It's quite a good site.
I'm sorry @bernardz but I think you've been poorly advised. My understanding is that, in the UK and USA at least, all photos posted to the net (or used anywhere else) have full copyright status unless explicitly revoked - this can be done by a statement on the web page or (better) embedded in the photo's EXIF/IPTC metadata. Just because some photos on the net have no EXIF or IPTC metadata, this does NOT mean that the photographer's or owner's copyright does not apply.
Having said that, most photographers will not mind one of their pictures being used in a blog article in a fair way. What really upsets photographers is when a commercial company takes a photograph off the net and uses it in advertising material without properly licensing it.
Like everything Bob, it's not so clear nothing ever is. Say in your example, I had a picture of my wife on a beach, how do I show its likely that I was the photographer if its disputed? Could she not argue her friend took it not me? As I am a non professional photographer, I cannot argue I have suffered any loss.
Here is a chart that I use that I think would be beneficial to the readers here. how accurate it is, if it came to court I do not know.
http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Infograp...
I have able to get 7-PDF maker to create a PDF file from an Open Office produced paper that contains many superscript footnotes with corresponding endnotes. The OpenOffice text file works great by itself: footnote and endnote are linked in Both directions. But creating a PDF using 7-PDF Maker only creates the link in one direction: from the footnote to the endnote and NOT back to the footnote. So then you have to manually scroll back to the beginning of the paper to find where footnote is located.
Question: Am I not doing something correct or will 7-PDF Maker only keep the link in one direction and not two.
Please help if you can.
Thank you
The current version is simply demo-ware. It adds a large red watermark on every page it converts. It faithfully converted the single Word document I tested it with. But, if you are looking for a free program to convert even a small number of files or files of limited size, look elsewhere.
Thanks rhiannon.. nice sites. I love the jigsaw puzzles.
You're very welcome. I love jigsaw puzzles too, digital or printed.
Where's thejigsawpuzzles.com? Love this site, no downloading of anything, just play on site. Have been using this site for years now and was concerned about the phaseout of Adobe Flash, but they said they are ready for the change over. You can choose how many pieces you want to do in any of the hundreds of puzzles there. Also choose the type of puzzle pieces you want to work with...classic, etc.. You can Full Screen, if needed, any puzzle to work on it. My 92-yr-old Mom had been doing a puzzle every day for yrs before she passed. Cannot say about doing any on a mobile phone though.
Can say the people there are great...any problem just email and they get back to you within 24 hours, if not sooner. BTW, you do not have to sign in or even have an account to do any puzzle, though the site will keep track of all the puzzles you do if you sign in...unlike Jigzone and a few others where you have to try to remember which ones you've done in the past.
For years, I have been using TheJigsawPuzzles.com. It has a database of thousands of puzzles, sorted by category. You can choose from 20 to 500 pieces and there are several different cut styles.
That's a great site, thanks for mentioning it. :)
It's a good site, I hadn't seen it until now. Thanks for the heads up.
AccuRadio is one of about a dozen music streaming sites I have bookmarked. My only real complaint regarding it is that you can't prevent notifications from arriving in your e-mail account. Pandora, Spotify and Deezer are the most popular alternatives although my personal favorite is still Tune-in Radio.
I love somafm.com. The site is set by genre. I pretty much listen to trance or jazz and there's no commercials (listener supported). Try Lush and see what you think?
An excellent site that seems to work wonderfully.
Thanks for sharing.
@crosseyedlemon:
You write "you can't prevent notifications...".
Every email service, program, provider web site or the like I have seen so far had some option to block sending addresses. Even clunky Yahoo Mail and thus AT&T email has it.
You know if the web site does not allow me to turn off their annoying email junk then I send the emails directly to the virtual garbage bin and they loose the chance to ever again talk to me from that email address. Ever heard an ad for Constant Contact? I despise that just as much as you do.
Unfortunately, they don't have Southern Gospel (not regular Gospel, but Southern). Anyone know of a site that does?
To clarify - Pandora says it has Southern Gospel, but it is really Christian Country. Southern Gospel would be artists like Gold City, Greater Vision, The Hoppers, The Crabb Family, The Cathedrals, Promised Land Quartet, etc.
I like several genres, decades and artists all of which are on separate channel. Does any streaming service support selecting multiple channels and get random play from all of them?
One of the best features of Accuradio imo is that it it doesn't have a skip limit. You could skip 100 songs in 5 minutes if you wanted, and it just keeps spitting out new tunes.
Rob:
Nice to know you are feeling much better and, to proof it, you are back to work!
Many thanks for the excellent two links you shared today.
Peter
The newly released material are not the seven Cornell lectures of 1964, but a two-year series that Feynman delivered over (about) 1963 through 1965 to freshmen and sophomores at CalTech. (For the final year, I was a teaching assistant for the course. We graduate students learned much more than the undergraduates.)
For many, the Feynman, Leighton and Sands set (with their bright red covers) is a treasured part of their library.
Some may recall a saying from the 1960s (the halcyon days of science education in the U.S.), "At Caltech, we treat our undergraduates as graduate students, and our graduate students as faculty." One brief shining moment...
THANK YOU, Rhiannon!! WELL DONE. I have been looking, waiting, wondering about what to do about November 1. Why did Google decide to ditch igoogle?? I thought maybe they were going to come out with a bigger and better version, or a slimmed down likeness, not just drop it and walk away. Not very good PR I'd think. I have been using it from the very beginning, enjoyed the artwork on special days, found it very convenient. It had to be a very big billboard for the Google name and business.
I've been playing with uStart.org. It's also a nice alternative... highly customizable, relatively easy to configure, and easy to use.
Good stuff Rhiannon. But what I missed most in your "best 6" detail was, can the Google bookmarks and passwords be imported into them (?) or if indeed they can save passwords or will "Password Box" (or other?)work with them.
That qualifies as pretty important to me and probably many other readers.
Hope you can find the time to report back... Regards
Hi Rhiannon,
Thanks very much for those. I had a quick look at a few iGoogle replacements back when its closure was first announced, but couldn't find anything I liked so put it on a backburner.
I wasn't aware of igHome, however, and having just easily set up and customised it, I have to say that for my purposes it seems just perfect. I particularly like the way you can customise the news gadgets to show only headlines or also description and images, adjust the font size, and the height of the gadgets by pixels. Thanks so much.
On a related note, Feedly is still looking like a terrific Google Reader replacement, and is getting even better. They're responding to their new users by swiftly adding many of the options requested.
MANY thanks Joe..
I have tried many of the available options, without being very satisfied... until I read your comment on uStart.org.
All I can say is I LOVE IT! uStart is the simplest of all to use, easy on the eye and plenty of options. In fact (Gasp!) I far prefer it to iGoogle :)
Glad to help out. :)
It was a great suggestion, Rhiannon.
I really like the customisation options I mentioned before, and also the bold font option. I've also customised the Black Bar Links by taking out a few I don't often use, and adding a few of my favourite websites, (including this one, of course), so now I'm all set.
iGoogle replacement problem solved. Thanks again.
Great collection Rhiannon, I've been looking around for an iGoogle replacement so thank you for all the suggestions. Protopage and Ig are my favourites I think though I've bookmarked them all for a proper look later.
For something simple and ready-to-go I'd just like to mention the Maxthon homepage which I only discovered fairly recently while casting around for an alternative browser. It isn't very configurable but it's pretty handy as a basic homepage.
Thanks also for the uStart suggestion, although LastPass flags it as an insecure log in.
YES, thank you! I've been wondering what I was going to do come November since I use iGoogle all day, every day. After testing out several of the options mentioned here & in the comments, I settled on igHome. The only drawback is that I can't get Google Tasks to work on it, but other than that, it's a pretty seamless transition from iGoogle. Thanks again!
Hi. If you're a Firefox user then you can have Tasks in the sidebar -
http://lifehacker.com/5145357/add-gmail-tasks-to-your-firefox-sidebar
I expect you can do something similar in other browsers but I never tried it.
Hmmm. I tried that but it doesn't format properly due to having multiple task lists under one account. Perhaps that's also why the Google Tasks gadget for igHome isn't working for me.
I'm not sure what you mean about not formatting properly. I don't use Tasks a lot myself but I added an extra list just now and it seems fine, there's a button at the bottom right to switch between lists and they seem to be displaying properly...
I did a couple of screenshots, I can't seem to upload them here but you can see them in dropbox -
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a3q93d39obpwm76/tasks%20sidepanel%2001.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzau9zy316qb35x/tasks%20sidepanel%2002.png
Hope you manage to find a satisfactory solution anyway, and apologies Rhiannon for taking your thread a bit off-topic.
Got it! I was using Canvas view for tasks, so that was the problem. Thanks so much. Now my igHome page is perfect. Thanks again to you & Rhiannon!
Very timely and useful list, Rhiannon. Thanks! I have been using Protopage for about a year and it is nice, though a bit clunky. There is a feature where you can scrape a webpage and specify X and Y coordinates so you can see just the part of the webpage you want. I did this to see the weather radar for my area. Great, right? Well, the radar map moved every so often and I had to fuss with the settings. In the last few months, it has been broken and I haven't got around to deleting it.
After I read your article, I tried out some of the suggestions. Symbaloo looked really nice and I started in building my page. Unfortunately, it looks like you cannot tell if you have unread articles from the tile. I tried to go to support to suggest the change. I was surprised to find their suggestion system would not accept entries and there was no other way to contact support. This is a non-starter for me. On to the next one.
I was less than wowed by the others but I will try uStart. Thanks to those who suggested it above.
uStart.org is way too much British for me. I was looking for something US based.
I used Netvibes for years and was frustrated off and on by random breakage of an app or feed. A few months back, multiple apps just stopped working and several of my rss were suddenly erased. I could have rebuilt things, but decided the lack of stability was too great. I now alternate between Protopage and igHome. Both have their advantages.
I'm finding this too!
I've spent a while playing with igHome, I quite like it... everything on it can be be pretty much added or deleted as you please which is good, and it has a very pleasing absence of in-your-face integration with social media, although it seems that this is there for those who want it.
It has quite a handy Google-style toolbar at the top, a definite plus there being that you can configure the buttons for whatever shortcuts you want by just entering a URL in preferences.
Downsides - the actual appearance, although not at all unpleasant, isn't very customisable - you can change the size of the gadgets in settings (though zooming the page achieves that globally) but the width appears to be something you're stuck with, and you have the same iGoogle style options of background colours or images, along with (as far as I could tell) pretty much all the same gadgets to choose from. Some of which don't work, which is as promised just like iGoogle :-D
On the other hand I've spent about an hour playing around with Protopage this evening, and I have to say I like it a lot more now than I did when I started. Again there's a very satisfying ability to clear all traces of twitter and fb etc from the page.
The appearance and layout is a lot more customisable than igHome ... I especially like that you can give each gadget its own colouring and to some extent resize them as well, for example I can have my google calendar gadget stretched out to cover quite a large area which makes it a lot more readable. This isn't perfect though - for instance the analogue clock which is quite nice can't be resized to look good. The smallest size of the gadget is still twice as big as the clock itself so the end result is a bit messy and unattractive. It seems that 1/3 of page width is the minimum for a gadget though I might have missed a setting somewhere. The collapse/expand button is handy.
Also a definite oversight to my mind is the lack of any option to change fonts, and it would nice to have a choice of rounded corners on the gadgets.
The option for public/private - which apparently you can apply separately to different components - is intriguing though I'm not sure I'd ever find a use for it, and I do like the default notepad gadget which appears to sync online as well. Very handy.
A very nice feature is the mouseover bubble on news stories (would be great to have that on the Google Calendar gadget too) and the inclusion of a mini-player for podcasts is very very nice, although I would like to be able to drag that around the window. The search bar is quite attractive with the ability to add/remove engines including custom ones.
Lastly for now, there seems to be a pretty decent selection of community-developed gadgets which I've not looked properly through yet.
Oops this started off as a quick reply, but it turned into a bit of an essay sorry :-) I'm undecided... igHome is easy on the eye but I'm very drawn to Protopage's configurabilty and podcast player and that apparently syncing notepad. I might just keep both, or maybe neither ... it's ages now since I used iGoogle and I can't say it's left a huge hole in my internet day.
Also to be fair, anything that I found to be absent or not working might well be down to my own oversight or security add ons in my browser.
I find all of these full of stuff I don't need and overly cluttered. Used to use Symbaloo but got annoyed by some major changes and downtime foisted on users. My focus is on bookmarks, so I like start.io and, for a bit more eye-candy, mylinkcloud.com which is flashier but not quite as solid.
An alternative I've found practical is not using a start page at all, but replacing it with customized start tabs. There are a quite a few alternatives out there for various browsers.
E.g. StartHQ (http://starthq.com)- for people that use a lot of web apps and want power and control over them, or Start!(search for "start chrome extension)- for you want quick access to bookmarks and rss feeds.
I have made Protopage my Start Page. But, I want to change my mind and use IG. How do I delete Protopage? Is it just a tab in Firefox? And IG would be another tab? However, I'd like to get rid of Protopage altogether.
NEVERMIND! I figured it out.
I was just composing a post in reply to Rosie's but got thoroughly distracted by the details as always :-)
The thing is that just changing your Start Page/Home Page doesn't actually delete your Protopage, it's still out there on the internet which to me is a bit untidy and too much of a loose end ...
However, I had a good look around on my own Protopage and I can find nothing straightforward for deleting the whole page, or for closing the account, which sadly is the case with a lot of things like this.
If it were me I would remove everything from the Protopage first, and then use the "Contact Us" link at top-right to ask that the account be closed and the page deleted. I'd also go into my email account and revoke any access permissions that I'd granted for email widgets or calendar widgets or whatever.
If Google does actually go ahead and remove iGoogle , a much loved product by many I, for one, will attempt to never again use any Google product.
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