Mistborn - a secure platform for easily standing up and managing your own cloud services: including firewall, ad-blocking, and multi-factor Wireguard VPN access:
https://gitlab.com/cyber5k/mistborn
sanctuary - a secure synchronous lightweight chatroom with zero logging and total transience:
https://github.com/astrosonic/sanctuary
Thanks for the heads up, I changed the link. It was working yesterday, but the betanews browser tab read https. The tab has the article title today. The link resolved to a search error page in Firefox today..
Yes it is working correct now for me (also in Firefox).
I did forget to mention that when I hovered over your previous link, it appeared to show the correct link, but took me to the other site.
Funny you got an error page and I got the other site.
Well, all done now.
Thanks
It's absolutely amazing to me that there are so many people willing to poison each other and/or cause them to believe they have protection from a deadly illness, while having none. 135 companies!
This year, for the first time in more than half a century of existing, I really despair. This species is reaping EXACTLY what it has sown.
I needed a quick free email address recently. Only one of the list of providers above didn't demand my phone number at the time of registration.
There is no way in hell I'm giving my phone number to my email provider. More and more, we're giving up our right to anonymity. OK they get our IPs, they browser fingerprint us etc. They can ID us. But it's the principle.
So I resist any service, such as quora, The Conversation and others, that try to gather real world identty info. Next they'll be demanding passports and driver's licences, like FB, the axis of online evil.
I would prefer they have an email account creation option. I rarely give my email address out, I use temporary email addresses. This article is one and there are great services in the comments.
Mikogo is good for screen sharing and online conferencing. Alternatively, you may try tools like on premise R-HUB web video conferencing servers for all your online conferencing needs. It works on all platforms viz Windows, MAC, Android, iOS etc.
AM-Deadlink is useless.
I'm fine with the fact that it won't change bookmarks in a browser, since that could screw things up, but it won't even edit a CSV file. That makes it useless. It tells you if you have duplicates or dead links, but then you have to use something else to do anything about it.
LibreOffice is certainly an outstanding piece of programming work, by hundreds of dedicated volunteers.
However, I don't use it, because it's still missing some basic things. For instance: when I'm using Writer in a 30 page document and want to go to the next page, the Page Down key should get me there. In LibreOffice, it shows part of the current page and part of the next page.
When I go back and forth several pages, I am lost, having no idea where I am. In Microsoft Word, Page Down means exactly that. Simple is good.
The comments in the LibreOffice forum defending the current system are not helpful. Things like "it's a word processor" -- meaning it's not a page processor, so don't expect it to display pages. This feature has been requested for many years, but it's clearly not important to the folks in charge.
After upgrading LibreOffice 6.4.6 to 7.0.0 last week, it was disappointing to find that graphics of documents in the recently-opend pane of Writer were no longer displayed, and that the color pallet had become darker (the two most obvious differences that I encountered).
Since the updated compatibility is not a current benefit for my own needs, I rolled back to 6.4.6 (requiring uninstalling 7.0.0).
No harm, no foul - but I do hope that those two relatively minor issues are addressed in a future update ('guess I'll have to make a post in their thread).
Otherwise, L.O. remains an awesome application (particularly for a Windows user for whom the last version of MS Office that was even merely acceptable was 7).
Yep there are things that don't work well or work the way they do in Office. Bugs don't get fixed for quite some time. Features take a long time to be implemented. When you have a volunteer staff things don't get done on the same time schedule that paid software enjoys. I put in many hours a week here and still don't have enough time to get things done that need doing, either here or in my personal life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've been using LibreOffice since Jan 2020 and was pretty satisfied until version 7. I downloaded it into a 6 month old ASUS Vivo Book S15 8GB RAM Windows 10 2004, but it would not install. It seemed to destroy some windows files as well which caused me to have to do a clean install of Win 10. I then re-installed LibreOffice version 6.4 which works fine. I am not planning on retrying version 7 any time soon, unless I try it in sandbox for testing first.
That's not a good experience with the new version, I'm sorry it gave you so much trouble. I've had issues with 6.4 where it took over some file associations but that's an easy fix.
This program was cool years ago when there were not so many choices. These days the free versions of Easeus TODO backup, Macrium Reflect Free or even Mini Tool Shadow Maker Free are way better options for WIndows 10.
It is great, it looks great, so it seems at least.
What is less clear is the main issue: the architecture!. What needs to be installed on PC and on tablet? How communication happened...After extensive search/read/guess...I suspect that both your PC and tablet exchange information via an AirDroid "central service" and it is not clear at all how the information exchanged is secured if at all.....
It is a pity this (marginal issue?) is not clearly mentioned in the description: maybe this is "obvious" for most, not for me....
This is another topic where I'm happy to be educated, for my ignorance about the world outside my little shell...
This seems to be a case of "Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it's worth doing." I'm having trouble imagining a situation where I would want to zip or unzip files over the internet. Converting PDF files to Word or Excel? Definitely a need for doing that online; the only software which does that well is very expensive to own. But Zip software tools are free to download, and are powerful. Why go elsewhere?
Thanks for your msg Jojo, I appreciate ! It is true that the added information states that encryption is used till Airdroid central service, so that nobody on internet can have access to exchanged data between your devices (PC, tablet) and Airdroid central service. This said, according to me (if I understood things correctly) one issue remains: the program at Airdroid has access to non-encrypted information, since being at the end of two SSL sessions, it has to swap / copy info from one encrypted session to the other.
Relax-and-Recover is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution. It is easy to set up and requires no maintenance so there is no excuse for not using it:
https://relax-and-recover.org/
I can recommend you https://chordchord.com/. This tool help you with building chord progressions. It will help you get some more skills and improve musical compositions as well as suggest you some sweet chord sequences to make music. Basically that's how I learned progressions myself. I'm more hands-on learner so this website worked pretty well for me.
Hi!
This is a great list,It must have taken lot of time to gather such information.I would love if you consider https://iconscout.com/categories/vr/photos for the next time you create something like this.
Thanks in advance!
The posted link redirects to https://ultradefrag.net/en/index.shtml which is for a paid product. The author stopped developing the last free version (7.14) and from version 8 and up is not free.
The posted link needs to be changed to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/
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This is currently my go to video editor, but only because of problems using NCH VideoPad.
Initial impression: it looks familiar with a timeline and a project area to drop clips etc.
The main problem is that it doesn't work like other similar-looking editors. If you have a video on the timeline and want to drop another in front of it, it "overwrites" rather than pushing the existing clip up the timeline. So you end up having to Google how to do the basics and watch a few tutorial videos to do anything. It's a frustrating learning curve, if only the user interface worked like all the others!
Having mastered it, it does a lot.
Some of the other oddities compared to other video editors:
* You don't need to put all the clips, photos etc into the project area and then drag to the timeline. They can be opened, previewed and dragged directly to the timeline
* You can produce an output video directly from the project area (known as a playlist) without using the timeline at all
* Deleting from the timeline by default doesn't close the gap - this has actually turned out to be useful, but not how other editors work. It is easy to close the gap later or there is a setting to control this (but does that setting do something else undesirable, I haven't found out)
* Creating consistent looking titles requires a bit of effort as by default the font size is as large as will fit the text in the text box resulting in different size titles for different pieces of text. This can be fixed but it takes experimentation to get the size of text looking good, it would be nice if the defaults looked good out of the box.
Overall it's not quite as polished as some but is better than a lot of open source.
It's one of the few pieces of software that uses my laptop's AMD Radeon graphics - it gets used for the video preview in the upper part of the screen (the video you see when you press play in the editor). It doesn't get used for final video file rendering however.
I used the free version of VideoPad for home use and it never prevented me from exporting video saying it was a paid feature. I did not experience any stability issues.
This would be my go to video editor if it weren't for problems exporting the finished video, sometimes. When I initiated the export process, sometimes it would finish very quickly - appear in the completed videos list but it would produce a very small useless output file, less than 1kbyte. It looks like a bug. When I hit this problem I couldn't find any workaround to make it export properly: tried other output formats and various small tweaks to no avail.
So having put in several hours effort editing a video and then finding it won't export is a major problem even if it works the rest of the time.
It's a shame as this is a very accomplished piece of software. It works fairly intuitively, very familiar to someone who's used other video editing software.
I do still like its stabilize - subjectively on my videos it was marginally better than the stabilize in Shotcut which is my go to video editor (and VirtualDub which I also tested). VideoPad lets you Stabilize from the project area and it produces a stabilized video file directly from there without using the problematic export function.
I suspect that VideoPad's titles are better than Shotcut's but I had already given up with VideoPad before I had a chance to try them.
Apart from not exporting video files properly, here are my other criticisms of VideoPad:
* In most video editors, there is a timecode representing the cursor position on the timeline in the form: "hh:mm:ss:frame_num". The last number goes 0-29 or 0-24 depending on the frame rate. In VideoPad the last 3 digits are milliseconds rather than frame number. Takes a bit of getting used to.
* When adding a video to the project area, it can take a while "indexing video". Then there's a grey/blue progress line and high CPU usage, presumably while it creates a temporary preview file.
* It also uses green progress lines on the edited video in the final timeline probably to show how far it's got in creating a preview of the edited timeline. Again that can take a while to go all green. CPU usage is high while it's doing this.
* I installed the free version and confirmed on each startup that I was using it for personal use. After a couple of weeks it told me the trial was coming to an end soon. Then it told me some features would be disabled unless I purchased it. Finally I'm back to confirming on each startup that I'm using it for personal use. I don't know which, if any, features have been disabled. I was never informed I was using a trial version when I first installed it or subsequently. I don't mind if the free version is limited but it would be nice to know what the limitations are. I can still use multiple video tracks in this "trial expired" free version.
This is a typical open source product: it's a bit unintuitive and lacking in polish.
In one video I added my own soundtrack from an mp3 file and found that in the output video, the audio had a lot of strange artefacts at the end rather than a nice clean finish.
It seems light on features.
I have found it useful to create a lower bitrate version of an existing video. It did it a lot faster than a general purpose video format converter I use.
I've just been testing some video editors so I thought I'd share my findings. Prior to this I did a small amount of video editing using Adobe Premiere Elements on Windows XP and Pinnacle Studio on Windows Vista. I'd describe myself as an advanced beginner - I've got a reasonable idea of what video editors should do but less knowledge of the fancy bells and whistles. Typically what I've been doing is simple cuts/deletes and adding titles and music. More recently I've been getting into stabilization, small rotates to level the horizon, zooming a bit and putting 2 video tracks together side by side to compare before and after stabilization.
Over the last month I've tried these editors and I'd rank them in this order for my purposes:
Shotcut
Video Editor - it's part of Microsoft Windows 10, scroll down the start menu to V to find it
NCH VideoPad
OpenShot
VirtualDub - tested its stabilization capabilities
Conclusion: all video editors have problems! I've ended up doing different bits of my videos in different editors. Eg I like the Windows Video Editor titles - very easy and quick to get something that looks good. I like VideoPad's stabilization (to me it's subjectively slightly better than Shotcut and VirtualDub, but there's not much in it) and Shotcut is the most reliable at producing a usable output video file from the various video clips, photos and music.
I used the free version of VideoPad for home use and it never prevented me from exporting video saying it was a paid feature. I did have problems exporting video for other reasons though. I did not experience any stability issues.
I've put my specific comments under the review of each editor I tried.
VirtualDub is not listed - I noticed some comments on it so it was probably in the list once and I can see why it was removed - it's very bare bones and doesn't work with MP4 out of the box, although I found a codec to solve that. When I was researching stabilization I found some forum comments elsewhere that said VirtualDub's is very good. To do stabilization in VirtualDub I downloaded "deshaker" from a site in Sweden - it hasn't been updated since 2014. Deshaker is very configurable and I followed the simple instructions. It did not do any better than the stabilization in VideoPad or Shotcut.
As there's no review of the built in Windows Video Editor, here are my comments on that:
Windows 10 Video Editor
It comes as standard with Windows 10 and is implemented as a "modern" Windows app (it's actually a part of Microsoft Photos that also comes with Windows 10). Video Editor looks a lot like how I remember Microsoft Movie Maker on XP, although I only ever looked at that and didn't produce any video output with it.
Ease of use is the key here. It doesn't have the multi track timeline of many other video editors. Instead video clips, titles, photos etc are put onto a storyboard. It's easy to split a video clip into 2 sections or trim the start and end. You can also add an overall soundtrack of background music.
It gives you some control over the output resolution but not bitrate which ends up high with correspondingly large files. When I first started using it I put the finished video into OpenShot and re-encoded there to get smaller lower bitrate video files.
The location of project files and temporary files is all hidden. When you start it shows you a list of projects you've saved plus you can start a new one. This is fine for what it is - a simple and easy to use video editor, rather than something powerful and serious where you might want to take backups of project files.
It's similar in capabilities to iMovie on the iPad. It would be great for a holiday video: titles, photos and video clips plus music all edited and looking good with minimal effort. Video Editor allows photos to look a bit less static by having them move/zoom a little giving a Ken Burns effect.
OpenVideo detects almost every video and can play it in its own video player - bypassing all ads without being detected:
https://openvideofs.github.io/
Thanks rhiannon,
I could be a little bit slow (or worse) since only now am I just about to stumble to Ten. Se7en to 8ight.1 to Ten in (3) months. Not impressed yet. This program should help with Ten though.
Recuva portable seems to be missing for download. By downloading the compressed installer, opening the archive (for example, with 7-zip), the portable executables can be extracted to run without installation. Thanks for your service!
WiseCare 365 from Wisecleaner is the best tune up/Cleaner for Windows 7-10 Home 2004, that is it, used it for many years, forget about Ccleaner:It is Avast project now.
I am trying to picture a scenario where one has a file needing unzipped, but without any sort of device access. I'm fairly certain even that seven-zip program has a free portable version. sounds like a good story. However, I had never even considered the possibility of an online unzip utility, so thanks much for these. Can always count on you to provide good free workarounds.
You need internet access and a device, and, some devices have no unzipping capability (for various reasons), and some devices are restricted, you can't install software on them. Libraries are an example - the local library doesn't allow installation of software and the software that's available for use is limited, so an online alternative is needed for some activities.
I usually Bandzip because it will unzip the file and open the folder in Windows Explorer where the unzipped file is.
I notice you say "Notion isn’t a replacement for Evernote" ... can you expand on that? What's missing? It looks like it has stuff that Evernote doesn't, like a database? Thanks :)
Evernote is better at adding information of all sorts from around the web. It has a scanner and supports a more file types. It's interface is less user friendly and cluttered since it's been adding features piecemeal over the years.
Notion is stonger at organization. It supports long form structured notes that can be nested and placed in hierarchies (great if you like to structure notes).
Notion has database and table support (think Google Docs + Google Sheets), code highlighting, allows comments insides notes, & has great collaboration/sharing features. It has more expansive editing, you can write in Markdown, use keyboard shortcuts, and switch views. It has a gallery view for photos and videos.
Notion syncs all your devices for free and offers all features free for personal use. Evernote has paid plans to access features other than note taking. As far as I can tell, there are no limits on things like note sizes or uploading and adding material. Evernote's free plan has a 60MB limit.
Notion has a page showcasing uses here: https://www.notion.so/personal
Both are great for note taking. Evernote is a mature product and is focused on note taking.
Notion launched in 2016 as a more fully featured product with an emphasis on creating and organizing information.
It's actively developed and responsive to community requested features.
Both are good products, using one or the other is more a matter of what you need.
In my training as a telephone tech I was told to do the job you were assigned and respect and ignore the customer. Sent on a job to install a black, cv set in a garden apt. After constant knocking, a guy in pajamas let me in and told me he wanted the phone on the right side of the bed. He jumped into bed with his wife/girl friend and preceded to make love (while giggling). I tried to ignore them and was lucky to find my dial tone and a 42a block at the location that the customer wanted. Job took about half-an-hour and I let myself out.
Thanks Rhiannon!!! What a great summary. I had a play with it, and was still a little confused, so your summary was really useful to me!! I have used Evernote for 8 years and really couldn't live without it these days (over 9000 notes), and I'm excited to see what Notion can add to the mix. THanks!
I enjoy reading your announcements and frequently find gems of useful freeware. That being said, your headline tells us that Notion is "now free to use". When I went to the Notion website, I found the same freemium restrictions that the app has had for years. I would have appreciated an acknowledgement that, while Notion is a nice and useful app, nothing there is new.
It's always polite to check your statements before directing criticism towards our volunteer editors who give their time freely to add content to this site. Please review the Notion statement dated May, 19th 2020. MC - Site Manager.
Glad you find some things useful.
I agree with MC. I spent 5 hours testing and researching that site before I wrote it up, created graphics and posted the article, which added another hour or so.
I would greatly appreciate it if people would do a little homework before posting something inaccurate about something I've written. Simply scrolling down their main page or checking their pricing page before making a comment here would have cleared up the issue.
As far as Notion goes, I signed up for a free personal account and tested the features before I wrote anything about the site.
The main page says free for personal use if you scroll down the page. I've attached a screenshot (below) from this URL so you can see what it looks like. https://www.notion.so/
I'm not sure why your getting that message but here's their pricing, you can see the Personal plan is free. https://www.notion.so/pricing
You may sign up for a free personal plan at this link, they state the personal plan is free directly above box for email to create an account: https://www.notion.so/personal
I found the information that plans were unlimited when I was searcing for plan limits (seems like there's always some limitation), the only limitation I could find is the ability to share with no more than 5 guests. This is the announcement from them:
You're so welcome. There are probably other features and differences, those are what I noted when I was testing Notion. I've used Evernote for years. I like both.
I am 78, and my memory stopped working about 18 years ago.
I am retired but still do VB6 programming for a hobby, and also share that (VB6 programs), and technical help (Windows computers) with friends/neighbors.
I would be absolutely cactus, without a good note taking program.
I use RightNote, and love it.
Each file, has Tabs, with a tree structure in each Tab
In addition you can have shortcuts to all of your files, in the Toolbar along the top.
Thus with a single running instance of RightNote, you can -
- Navigate to any of your files
- Within a file you can navigate between Tabs
- Within a tab, you can navigate to any Subject, using the Tree structure
- Any Subject can have children
What more could a man ask for ?
Here you can see the features that are present in their free version -
https://www.bauerapps.com/rightnote-version-comparisons/
Fly-Pie is an attractive marking menu for Gnome Shell which can be used to launch applications, simulate hotkeys, open URLs and much more:
https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie
No I don't and "At the moment, Privacy is only available to US residents." puts a complete kibosh on it for most on the planet sadly....was expecting to see that phrase but still disappointing, was interested.
This is a list of the most recently posted comments on the site sorted so that the most recent comments appear first.
You can however sort the list on Article title by clicking on the column heading. To see actual comments click the + sign.
Thanks for this!
Opera does not have this but has instead an extension called
Redirect Bypasser
which seems similar though not identical.
You're welcome. It's saved quite a bit of time on my slow internet connection.
Just set this up and tested it. Looks like an excellent service. Thanks
You're very welcome, I'm glad you like it.
Your link leads me to homeimprovement.com.
It took me a bit to see the difference between your link and the actual link - your link has "http://https.com" before the beta news link:
https://betanews.com/2020/08/05/libreoffice-7/ - real link
http://www.https.com//betanews.com/2020/08/05/libreoffice-7/ - your link
Thanks for the heads up, I changed the link. It was working yesterday, but the betanews browser tab read https. The tab has the article title today. The link resolved to a search error page in Firefox today..
Yes it is working correct now for me (also in Firefox).
I did forget to mention that when I hovered over your previous link, it appeared to show the correct link, but took me to the other site.
Funny you got an error page and I got the other site.
Well, all done now.
Thanks
I've used e4ward for years and loved it. I'll give this one a go also. Thanks Rhiannon.
It's absolutely amazing to me that there are so many people willing to poison each other and/or cause them to believe they have protection from a deadly illness, while having none. 135 companies!
This year, for the first time in more than half a century of existing, I really despair. This species is reaping EXACTLY what it has sown.
You're so welcome. :)
Thanks Panzer, I'll add it to my list. :)
Hmm... Only Mexican products are listed. What are the odds ?
And the rest of the world are saints.
...but the radio stations look nice, and thanks for the article.
I really dislike that there's no email signup.
I needed a quick free email address recently. Only one of the list of providers above didn't demand my phone number at the time of registration.
There is no way in hell I'm giving my phone number to my email provider. More and more, we're giving up our right to anonymity. OK they get our IPs, they browser fingerprint us etc. They can ID us. But it's the principle.
So I resist any service, such as quora, The Conversation and others, that try to gather real world identty info. Next they'll be demanding passports and driver's licences, like FB, the axis of online evil.
I would prefer they have an email account creation option. I rarely give my email address out, I use temporary email addresses. This article is one and there are great services in the comments.
https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/stop-unwanted-email-free-great-...
It's almost impossible to navigate and find what I want. I want Greek folk music, but all I can find is current rock.
Mikogo is good for screen sharing and online conferencing. Alternatively, you may try tools like on premise R-HUB web video conferencing servers for all your online conferencing needs. It works on all platforms viz Windows, MAC, Android, iOS etc.
AM-Deadlink is useless.
I'm fine with the fact that it won't change bookmarks in a browser, since that could screw things up, but it won't even edit a CSV file. That makes it useless. It tells you if you have duplicates or dead links, but then you have to use something else to do anything about it.
THANKS!! This might be what I've been looking for, for a long time.
You're very welcome. This release is a nice improvement.
LibreOffice is certainly an outstanding piece of programming work, by hundreds of dedicated volunteers.
However, I don't use it, because it's still missing some basic things. For instance: when I'm using Writer in a 30 page document and want to go to the next page, the Page Down key should get me there. In LibreOffice, it shows part of the current page and part of the next page.
When I go back and forth several pages, I am lost, having no idea where I am. In Microsoft Word, Page Down means exactly that. Simple is good.
The comments in the LibreOffice forum defending the current system are not helpful. Things like "it's a word processor" -- meaning it's not a page processor, so don't expect it to display pages. This feature has been requested for many years, but it's clearly not important to the folks in charge.
After upgrading LibreOffice 6.4.6 to 7.0.0 last week, it was disappointing to find that graphics of documents in the recently-opend pane of Writer were no longer displayed, and that the color pallet had become darker (the two most obvious differences that I encountered).
Since the updated compatibility is not a current benefit for my own needs, I rolled back to 6.4.6 (requiring uninstalling 7.0.0).
No harm, no foul - but I do hope that those two relatively minor issues are addressed in a future update ('guess I'll have to make a post in their thread).
Otherwise, L.O. remains an awesome application (particularly for a Windows user for whom the last version of MS Office that was even merely acceptable was 7).
If there's a radio station that plays the music you want, you can ask them if they can add it.
Yep there are things that don't work well or work the way they do in Office. Bugs don't get fixed for quite some time. Features take a long time to be implemented. When you have a volunteer staff things don't get done on the same time schedule that paid software enjoys. I put in many hours a week here and still don't have enough time to get things done that need doing, either here or in my personal life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh definitely go with what version works best for you. There's some software I won't upgrade for the same reasons - functionality changes.
I've been using LibreOffice since Jan 2020 and was pretty satisfied until version 7. I downloaded it into a 6 month old ASUS Vivo Book S15 8GB RAM Windows 10 2004, but it would not install. It seemed to destroy some windows files as well which caused me to have to do a clean install of Win 10. I then re-installed LibreOffice version 6.4 which works fine. I am not planning on retrying version 7 any time soon, unless I try it in sandbox for testing first.
That's not a good experience with the new version, I'm sorry it gave you so much trouble. I've had issues with 6.4 where it took over some file associations but that's an easy fix.
This program was cool years ago when there were not so many choices. These days the free versions of Easeus TODO backup, Macrium Reflect Free or even Mini Tool Shadow Maker Free are way better options for WIndows 10.
It is great, it looks great, so it seems at least.
What is less clear is the main issue: the architecture!. What needs to be installed on PC and on tablet? How communication happened...After extensive search/read/guess...I suspect that both your PC and tablet exchange information via an AirDroid "central service" and it is not clear at all how the information exchanged is secured if at all.....
It is a pity this (marginal issue?) is not clearly mentioned in the description: maybe this is "obvious" for most, not for me....
Thank you! :)
I've got too damn many fonts already
This is another topic where I'm happy to be educated, for my ignorance about the world outside my little shell...
This seems to be a case of "Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it's worth doing." I'm having trouble imagining a situation where I would want to zip or unzip files over the internet. Converting PDF files to Word or Excel? Definitely a need for doing that online; the only software which does that well is very expensive to own. But Zip software tools are free to download, and are powerful. Why go elsewhere?
Personally, I needed to unzip a file and I had no access to a device that had or could download and install an unzipping program. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for your msg Jojo, I appreciate ! It is true that the added information states that encryption is used till Airdroid central service, so that nobody on internet can have access to exchanged data between your devices (PC, tablet) and Airdroid central service. This said, according to me (if I understood things correctly) one issue remains: the program at Airdroid has access to non-encrypted information, since being at the end of two SSL sessions, it has to swap / copy info from one encrypted session to the other.
I can recommend you https://chordchord.com/. This tool help you with building chord progressions. It will help you get some more skills and improve musical compositions as well as suggest you some sweet chord sequences to make music. Basically that's how I learned progressions myself. I'm more hands-on learner so this website worked pretty well for me.
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What a great find, and very handy too. Thanks Rhiannon.
Have you tried random numbers on Google search?
Try a number like "245 new cases" to check out the results.
I'm glad you like it. :)
I haven't, I rarely use Google Search. Reverse image search is all I use it for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Google search is never my default.
But, this random number search with "new cases" in same line is quite original.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it out.
Hi!
This is a great list,It must have taken lot of time to gather such information.I would love if you consider https://iconscout.com/categories/vr/photos for the next time you create something like this.
Thanks in advance!
The posted link redirects to https://ultradefrag.net/en/index.shtml which is for a paid product. The author stopped developing the last free version (7.14) and from version 8 and up is not free.
The posted link needs to be changed to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/
Thanks for this. Worked well for me
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This is currently my go to video editor, but only because of problems using NCH VideoPad.
Initial impression: it looks familiar with a timeline and a project area to drop clips etc.
The main problem is that it doesn't work like other similar-looking editors. If you have a video on the timeline and want to drop another in front of it, it "overwrites" rather than pushing the existing clip up the timeline. So you end up having to Google how to do the basics and watch a few tutorial videos to do anything. It's a frustrating learning curve, if only the user interface worked like all the others!
Having mastered it, it does a lot.
Some of the other oddities compared to other video editors:
* You don't need to put all the clips, photos etc into the project area and then drag to the timeline. They can be opened, previewed and dragged directly to the timeline
* You can produce an output video directly from the project area (known as a playlist) without using the timeline at all
* Deleting from the timeline by default doesn't close the gap - this has actually turned out to be useful, but not how other editors work. It is easy to close the gap later or there is a setting to control this (but does that setting do something else undesirable, I haven't found out)
* Creating consistent looking titles requires a bit of effort as by default the font size is as large as will fit the text in the text box resulting in different size titles for different pieces of text. This can be fixed but it takes experimentation to get the size of text looking good, it would be nice if the defaults looked good out of the box.
Overall it's not quite as polished as some but is better than a lot of open source.
It's one of the few pieces of software that uses my laptop's AMD Radeon graphics - it gets used for the video preview in the upper part of the screen (the video you see when you press play in the editor). It doesn't get used for final video file rendering however.
I used the free version of VideoPad for home use and it never prevented me from exporting video saying it was a paid feature. I did not experience any stability issues.
This would be my go to video editor if it weren't for problems exporting the finished video, sometimes. When I initiated the export process, sometimes it would finish very quickly - appear in the completed videos list but it would produce a very small useless output file, less than 1kbyte. It looks like a bug. When I hit this problem I couldn't find any workaround to make it export properly: tried other output formats and various small tweaks to no avail.
So having put in several hours effort editing a video and then finding it won't export is a major problem even if it works the rest of the time.
It's a shame as this is a very accomplished piece of software. It works fairly intuitively, very familiar to someone who's used other video editing software.
I do still like its stabilize - subjectively on my videos it was marginally better than the stabilize in Shotcut which is my go to video editor (and VirtualDub which I also tested). VideoPad lets you Stabilize from the project area and it produces a stabilized video file directly from there without using the problematic export function.
I suspect that VideoPad's titles are better than Shotcut's but I had already given up with VideoPad before I had a chance to try them.
Apart from not exporting video files properly, here are my other criticisms of VideoPad:
* In most video editors, there is a timecode representing the cursor position on the timeline in the form: "hh:mm:ss:frame_num". The last number goes 0-29 or 0-24 depending on the frame rate. In VideoPad the last 3 digits are milliseconds rather than frame number. Takes a bit of getting used to.
* When adding a video to the project area, it can take a while "indexing video". Then there's a grey/blue progress line and high CPU usage, presumably while it creates a temporary preview file.
* It also uses green progress lines on the edited video in the final timeline probably to show how far it's got in creating a preview of the edited timeline. Again that can take a while to go all green. CPU usage is high while it's doing this.
* I installed the free version and confirmed on each startup that I was using it for personal use. After a couple of weeks it told me the trial was coming to an end soon. Then it told me some features would be disabled unless I purchased it. Finally I'm back to confirming on each startup that I'm using it for personal use. I don't know which, if any, features have been disabled. I was never informed I was using a trial version when I first installed it or subsequently. I don't mind if the free version is limited but it would be nice to know what the limitations are. I can still use multiple video tracks in this "trial expired" free version.
This is one of the first video editors I tried.
This is a typical open source product: it's a bit unintuitive and lacking in polish.
In one video I added my own soundtrack from an mp3 file and found that in the output video, the audio had a lot of strange artefacts at the end rather than a nice clean finish.
It seems light on features.
I have found it useful to create a lower bitrate version of an existing video. It did it a lot faster than a general purpose video format converter I use.
I've just been testing some video editors so I thought I'd share my findings. Prior to this I did a small amount of video editing using Adobe Premiere Elements on Windows XP and Pinnacle Studio on Windows Vista. I'd describe myself as an advanced beginner - I've got a reasonable idea of what video editors should do but less knowledge of the fancy bells and whistles. Typically what I've been doing is simple cuts/deletes and adding titles and music. More recently I've been getting into stabilization, small rotates to level the horizon, zooming a bit and putting 2 video tracks together side by side to compare before and after stabilization.
Over the last month I've tried these editors and I'd rank them in this order for my purposes:
Shotcut
Video Editor - it's part of Microsoft Windows 10, scroll down the start menu to V to find it
NCH VideoPad
OpenShot
VirtualDub - tested its stabilization capabilities
Conclusion: all video editors have problems! I've ended up doing different bits of my videos in different editors. Eg I like the Windows Video Editor titles - very easy and quick to get something that looks good. I like VideoPad's stabilization (to me it's subjectively slightly better than Shotcut and VirtualDub, but there's not much in it) and Shotcut is the most reliable at producing a usable output video file from the various video clips, photos and music.
I used the free version of VideoPad for home use and it never prevented me from exporting video saying it was a paid feature. I did have problems exporting video for other reasons though. I did not experience any stability issues.
I've put my specific comments under the review of each editor I tried.
VirtualDub is not listed - I noticed some comments on it so it was probably in the list once and I can see why it was removed - it's very bare bones and doesn't work with MP4 out of the box, although I found a codec to solve that. When I was researching stabilization I found some forum comments elsewhere that said VirtualDub's is very good. To do stabilization in VirtualDub I downloaded "deshaker" from a site in Sweden - it hasn't been updated since 2014. Deshaker is very configurable and I followed the simple instructions. It did not do any better than the stabilization in VideoPad or Shotcut.
As there's no review of the built in Windows Video Editor, here are my comments on that:
Windows 10 Video Editor
It comes as standard with Windows 10 and is implemented as a "modern" Windows app (it's actually a part of Microsoft Photos that also comes with Windows 10). Video Editor looks a lot like how I remember Microsoft Movie Maker on XP, although I only ever looked at that and didn't produce any video output with it.
Ease of use is the key here. It doesn't have the multi track timeline of many other video editors. Instead video clips, titles, photos etc are put onto a storyboard. It's easy to split a video clip into 2 sections or trim the start and end. You can also add an overall soundtrack of background music.
It gives you some control over the output resolution but not bitrate which ends up high with correspondingly large files. When I first started using it I put the finished video into OpenShot and re-encoded there to get smaller lower bitrate video files.
The location of project files and temporary files is all hidden. When you start it shows you a list of projects you've saved plus you can start a new one. This is fine for what it is - a simple and easy to use video editor, rather than something powerful and serious where you might want to take backups of project files.
It's similar in capabilities to iMovie on the iPad. It would be great for a holiday video: titles, photos and video clips plus music all edited and looking good with minimal effort. Video Editor allows photos to look a bit less static by having them move/zoom a little giving a Ken Burns effect.
That's great to hear. :)
That looks interesting, I'll check it out. Thanks. :)
Thanks rhiannon,
I could be a little bit slow (or worse) since only now am I just about to stumble to Ten. Se7en to 8ight.1 to Ten in (3) months. Not impressed yet. This program should help with Ten though.
Thanks again,
michael clyde
This article got a "4.1" average out of 12 votes. Does anyone have any actual experience with the program besides rhiannon? (thanks, by the way)
Recuva portable seems to be missing for download. By downloading the compressed installer, opening the archive (for example, with 7-zip), the portable executables can be extracted to run without installation. Thanks for your service!
Nice thanks rhiannon
WiseCare 365 from Wisecleaner is the best tune up/Cleaner for Windows 7-10 Home 2004, that is it, used it for many years, forget about Ccleaner:It is Avast project now.
You're very welcome.
I am trying to picture a scenario where one has a file needing unzipped, but without any sort of device access. I'm fairly certain even that seven-zip program has a free portable version. sounds like a good story. However, I had never even considered the possibility of an online unzip utility, so thanks much for these. Can always count on you to provide good free workarounds.
You need internet access and a device, and, some devices have no unzipping capability (for various reasons), and some devices are restricted, you can't install software on them. Libraries are an example - the local library doesn't allow installation of software and the software that's available for use is limited, so an online alternative is needed for some activities.
I usually Bandzip because it will unzip the file and open the folder in Windows Explorer where the unzipped file is.
Ah, now I get it. Thanks, Rhiannon.
Glad I could make it less murky. :)
I notice you say "Notion isn’t a replacement for Evernote" ... can you expand on that? What's missing? It looks like it has stuff that Evernote doesn't, like a database? Thanks :)
Evernote is better at adding information of all sorts from around the web. It has a scanner and supports a more file types. It's interface is less user friendly and cluttered since it's been adding features piecemeal over the years.
Notion is stonger at organization. It supports long form structured notes that can be nested and placed in hierarchies (great if you like to structure notes).
Notion has database and table support (think Google Docs + Google Sheets), code highlighting, allows comments insides notes, & has great collaboration/sharing features. It has more expansive editing, you can write in Markdown, use keyboard shortcuts, and switch views. It has a gallery view for photos and videos.
Notion syncs all your devices for free and offers all features free for personal use. Evernote has paid plans to access features other than note taking. As far as I can tell, there are no limits on things like note sizes or uploading and adding material. Evernote's free plan has a 60MB limit.
Notion has a page showcasing uses here:
https://www.notion.so/personal
Both are great for note taking. Evernote is a mature product and is focused on note taking.
Notion launched in 2016 as a more fully featured product with an emphasis on creating and organizing information.
It's actively developed and responsive to community requested features.
Both are good products, using one or the other is more a matter of what you need.
In my training as a telephone tech I was told to do the job you were assigned and respect and ignore the customer. Sent on a job to install a black, cv set in a garden apt. After constant knocking, a guy in pajamas let me in and told me he wanted the phone on the right side of the bed. He jumped into bed with his wife/girl friend and preceded to make love (while giggling). I tried to ignore them and was lucky to find my dial tone and a 42a block at the location that the customer wanted. Job took about half-an-hour and I let myself out.
Thanks Rhiannon!!! What a great summary. I had a play with it, and was still a little confused, so your summary was really useful to me!! I have used Evernote for 8 years and really couldn't live without it these days (over 9000 notes), and I'm excited to see what Notion can add to the mix. THanks!
Googling "245 new cases" just gave me covid sites ... are there other words you used with it? Or a specific google URL? Thanks :)
Wouldn't it be easier to just let "nature take it's course", let Ms install it and then uninstall it yourself?
That pretty much depends on how someone uses a PC and the extent they are ok with Microsoft making that type of change on their system.
I enjoy reading your announcements and frequently find gems of useful freeware. That being said, your headline tells us that Notion is "now free to use". When I went to the Notion website, I found the same freemium restrictions that the app has had for years. I would have appreciated an acknowledgement that, while Notion is a nice and useful app, nothing there is new.
Glad you find some things useful.
I agree with MC. I spent 5 hours testing and researching that site before I wrote it up, created graphics and posted the article, which added another hour or so.
I would greatly appreciate it if people would do a little homework before posting something inaccurate about something I've written. Simply scrolling down their main page or checking their pricing page before making a comment here would have cleared up the issue.
As far as Notion goes, I signed up for a free personal account and tested the features before I wrote anything about the site.
The main page says free for personal use if you scroll down the page. I've attached a screenshot (below) from this URL so you can see what it looks like.
https://www.notion.so/
I'm not sure why your getting that message but here's their pricing, you can see the Personal plan is free.
https://www.notion.so/pricing
You may sign up for a free personal plan at this link, they state the personal plan is free directly above box for email to create an account:
https://www.notion.so/personal
My apologies, my account at Notion still has the following note:
"Upgrade to go unlimited
This workspace has used 208 of its 1000 block storage limit (21%)."
I assume that is no longer operative, and I will have to take it up with Notion.
Thank you. :)
I found the information that plans were unlimited when I was searcing for plan limits (seems like there's always some limitation), the only limitation I could find is the ability to share with no more than 5 guests. This is the announcement from them:
https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba8b46c#3a101e...
Not sure why your account is still showing limits. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you used the quotes in your search, the results show 245 new cases being reported in many different places. Other numbers produce similar results.
You're so welcome. There are probably other features and differences, those are what I noted when I was testing Notion. I've used Evernote for years. I like both.
I am 78, and my memory stopped working about 18 years ago.
I am retired but still do VB6 programming for a hobby, and also share that (VB6 programs), and technical help (Windows computers) with friends/neighbors.
I would be absolutely cactus, without a good note taking program.
I use RightNote, and love it.
Each file, has Tabs, with a tree structure in each Tab
In addition you can have shortcuts to all of your files, in the Toolbar along the top.
Thus with a single running instance of RightNote, you can -
- Navigate to any of your files
- Within a file you can navigate between Tabs
- Within a tab, you can navigate to any Subject, using the Tree structure
- Any Subject can have children
What more could a man ask for ?
Here you can see the features that are present in their free version -
https://www.bauerapps.com/rightnote-version-comparisons/
No I don't and "At the moment, Privacy is only available to US residents." puts a complete kibosh on it for most on the planet sadly....was expecting to see that phrase but still disappointing, was interested.
I've often wished everything was globally accessible.
I haven't come across that program (that I remember), I'll have a look at it, thank you.
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