Jojoyee thanks for the update. I was searching for free games and finally I got the the list. Thanks again.

Thanks for the list I have been looking for free games for my 12 yr old! I love hidden object/adventure games. Hard to find those. :)

I downloaded the "Chrome Glass" set. The file was a rar archive. I uncompressed the file with 7zip. The file uncompressed to ChromeGlass.exe. I ran ChromeGlass.exe through virus total and it came up with 5 positive hits. I will NOT be installing any of these.

Exactly. :)

I know it is an old thread, but the five that came up positive were NOT positives from unknown virus engines. They came up on some of the mainstream virus engines. I usually disregard positives from the lesser known scanner engines. I have had to clean the computers for a company that I worked for due to ransomware. That was not fun and it was VERY time consuming. I do not wish to do it on my personal computer. Thank God that I had a daily backup available that I had set up for the company that were out of reach from the ransomware. Although I was making my living as a mechanic, I did take care of the computers for them.

every website i looked up didn't have Uncle Tom's Cabin by : Harriet Beecher Stowe

What would be really great is if someone could show us how to run though the list

You will find it under the API menu> Who is using it

Ruby Gem or
checkpwnedemails

That way we could check a list of email addresses, I know I would like to check the people at the club I service

It does have a domain checker which looks good though for people that take care of work emails

And this is why I friggin hate it when websites demand you make an account to do even the most basic things like downloading forum post attachments for something you'll only ever need once and after that you never have to be on that site again. I once got fed up with it and asked a moderator to delete my account when I was done and he went "but why would I do that? Just forget you have it". That's like how startssl wants you to pay up before they'll revoke your ssl cert. All this sort of nonsense is getting really annoying.

Excellent information. And if you are lucky enough to be on this list what should one do to protect themselves from being hacked or exploited?
Thanks.

Just tried it with a couple of email addresses that I never use. For one of them I got the following:

Oh no — pwned!
Not pwned on any breached sites, but found 1 paste. A "paste" is information that has been published to a publicly facing website designed to share content, usually anonymously. Often these are indicators of a data breach so review the paste and determine if your account has been compromised then take appropriate action such as changing passwords. Pastes are often removed shortly after having been posted. Read more on the pastes page.
The paste is dated last October.
I clicked the paste title which links to this page http://pastebin.com/ZwUh4tcG, where I was told that the paste had been removed.
I found myself pwnd at three sites I never use any more, so now I can do what I should have done a long time ago and delete the accounts.

I know what you mean, but only the Ashley Madison account requires registration, and the rationale for that sis discussed here: http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/07/heres-how-im-going-to-handle-ashley.html

I think you'd have to ask the author of the article that question. :)
Maybe they don't know about it, or maybe they didn't include it because you have to register to download the images at that site?

Great list Jojo, here are two I like:
http://www.iorise.com/
It aggregates the wallpapers from bing's sites (China, France, Canada, Brasil, Germany and Worldwide). They usually post three images, two with the bing logo (one on English, one in the language the wallpaper was taken from, and one with no logo) and lately have been posting an addition size of 1080x 1920, good for mobile phones.

And this one:
https://www.bing.com/gallery/
Showcases images featured on the bing US home page for the last five years.

National Geographic has a great collection. Go to
http://national-geographic-wallpapers.en.lo4d.com/download
to get a program ngdl.exe that will let you download many years worth of wallpapers

The redirect is odd. The last few times I visited, there was a thank you message that said the site was shutting down. You can see it here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170427081731/http://www.iorise.com:80/

Could be. The only other thing I can think of is that they didn't want to pay to keep the site hosted along with the images even if they weren't adding to it, so they deleted everything and implemented a redirect.
There are probably other scenarios, I have minimal working knowledge of that kind of thing, mostly through the domains I own that are hosted. There's usually a monthly hosting fee and yearly domain name renewal with most web hosting companies and domain registrars - though most website hosting companies are also domain registrars these days.

I recently ran across this website that serves a similar function, but sometimes it's offline, like now. At the moment there's a 502 Bad Gateway error. Worth checking back for though.
http://www.todayshomepage.com/

This is a trend that is becoming more popular among museums and libraries with each passing year and with the favorable reception from the public I expect we will see more collections being offered as it's a win/win situation for all involved.

I agree that this is an excellent resource but take note that only low-res images are available for free. You have to pay to download high-res versions.

Be nice if there was some sort of front end for search.

(Yeah, yeah - i want jam on it...)

OK, you go to "visualize the public collection" (http://publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization/) and it should load (finally) a huge thumbnail of all the thousands of scans. You can sort by genre, collection, or color. Pick one and you get a bigger thumbnail, all the info on it, and several resolution download selections. The "all download options" might have 6 different sizes. "Larger" is 2560 pixels, plenty big for me even after zooming in, and it's 6 or 8 megabytes.

It's time to have fun!

Thank you, Jojo! :-)

I am guessing that there is no such thing, but with your vast knowledge of the subject, is there such a thing as a free Spanish Comics (tebeos) downloading site?

Any useful alternatives out there?

A very useful article. Thank you.

Thanks for your feedback. :)

We have readers with a wide range of experience and interest here at Gizmo's. Advanced users, many of us who know enough to get around, those who are new to computers, and people who have less time, experience or interest in computers.
I would find things that are interesting to everyone all the time if I figure out how. :) :) :)

I think the article's usefulness depends in part on how you use your computer or if you want tricks or tips so that it's faster and easier.
In the mouse/keyboard spectrum I lean towards the keyboard because it's so much faster and easier, not just for the more technical commands, but for things most of us probably do every day.
I use the Run box to open or run all kind of things, everything from the Word to Calculator to my email program to the Font folder. I use it to open Notepad, Wordpad, Services, change the Mouse speed and pointers and so on. I use it to open the User folder because Windows has the habit of periodically hiding the App Data folder.
There's a browse button using the Start menu access to find things as well.
It's much easier to for me to navigate that way than using a mouse and going through the Start menu. If it's not on the taskbar or the desktop (which I access using the Windows Key + D) then I usually use the run command.
The Windows Key + X is another way to access some Windows functions, like the command prompt.
 

There are some terms that need to be memorized, but most aren't that far off the names of what you want to use. For example, Control Panel is control. Calculator is calc. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for the shortcuts! Another: Win-R . (i.e. Run and a single period, or full-stop) gets Windows Explorer opened to the user's home folder.
BTW, some of these commands are more easily available from the Windows Search bar -- press Win key and type part of the name, e.g. "devmg" to open Device Manager, or "rege" for Regedit,instead of needing to enter the full application's name.

I understand your point. :)

Nice, thanks. :)

Good stuff here. In the "15 Tools" article, the 14th utility is ESET System Inspector, but the link takes you to the 15th item which is a Microsoft Debug Diagnostic utility. You will need to google for the ESET utility in order to find it.

Great stuff. Thanks!

Once again you've added some really helpful utilities. Your website is the first one I go to when I have computer problems and in need of a particular free program.
Thanks for all your good work!

All of the applications, with the exception of the wonderful Malwarebytes, where way over this average user's capability. Probably easy for most IT Pros.

This downloaded and installed without fuss - no stealth toolbars or other nasties and a perfectly functional activation procedure.

If you already have photo retouching tools and the know-how to use them, this won't add much to your arsenal. It rather resembles some of the quick editing effects apps available on Android, but on a larger scale.

After about 10 minutes of experimenting with one of the supplied test images the PC (W7 4GB memory) slowed to a crawl and finally stopped, requiring a reboot and suggesting memory issues. The filters did not appear in the filters menu of Photoshop Elements as I expected and I couldn't see any very good reason to invest the time required to find out why not.

The programme uninstalled cleanly with Revo.

I'm back with update ..... tried on a few photos and it works like a charm with no bogging or slowing down my computer at all. It applies the selected affects just a tiny bit slow but nothing really to worry about. Maybe a 1/2 a second or less to apply selected effect but that's not unusual with photo editing software. Memory usage is around 33 % running other software and using FireFox at the same time so I know that I can use without any issues. The effects are really useful and with so many it get's a little time consuming to decide which ones to use but that's not a problem. Thanks Gizmo's Freeware for the tip on this excellent tool and the free license key. Keep up the good work....

All the sites listed above are for Windows, so are mostly useless for me.

I first go to the forum maintained by the Linux distro I'm using, or its derivative (e.g., Mint, Ubuntu). If I have a problem, a thousand others have had it too and a hundred have figured out the answer.

If I can't, there's a lot of small Linux forums but I find the best way of finding the topic is searching for it, making sure I use "linux" as one of the search terms.

I am looking for DotTech by Ashraf. Loving that help.