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.
Many of the tools I've seen that do this type of thing don't have descriptions, or descriptions are minimal. Winaero Tweak has excellent descriptions and more screen shots and information on the site. I'm not an expert but off the top of my head I didn't see anything in Privatezilla that would break Windows 10 or interefere with functioning. Any changes are easily undone using the "Revert" feature.
I agree with setting a restore point (a backup is better) but you'd have to enable System Restore, it's disabled by default in Windows 10. People who have been using System Restore for years and counting on automatic restore points who don't know it's disabled are out of luck.
Yes, I mentioned that in the article. That falls into the "cons" category for me, but people who love the ease of signing in everywhere with a Google account will like it. That's why I added the link in the article to the World Time Saver page, it lists many cities.
If you want a minmal interface and need to add customized cities I like http://itime.io/.
I was hoping that this card unlike Paypal and Debit Cards, if you authorize a Merchant (make a purchase) to claim funds from your balance, the Merchant has 30 days to claim said funds. The funds will be deducted from your available balance for the whole 30 days even if the Merchant informs you after 3 days that the purchase has been cancelled due to ongoing "lack of stock" problems or he doesn't like the color of your Moped. I've had it happen twice in the same month. For $253.43 NIJ Certified Ballistic Panels and $153.00 for computer parts, cancelled after 5 days. Both purchases 3 days apart. Agreement states must hold in Escrow for 30 Days. I don't know if Credit Cards act differently since Credit could be issued at any time, I'm guessing. These seem to be a bit safer than a normal card but Merchants can still exceed your preset limits and a few other things I was reading in their info. Looks like Merchants were well represented when these Laws were drawn up. Customer representation, not so much.
Sorry about going on and on and ... .
I love timeanddate. I did look at the time zone converter, it's nicely done. I like the vertical bar that moves to highlight time zones and how you can hover over the location to get the location and time. It's great that islands are included. It easy to find so many cities. If you're working with people in different time zones, especially a group of people, it's more difficult to see the time where they are are quickly.
I didn't find where merchants are allowed to exceed preset limits on a card created on Privacy, can you point me to that information?
Privacy is not a bank or a credit card company, it provides a virtual card number for transactions.
It doesn't hold any funds and transactions are between the merchant and your funding source.
If I remember correctly their TOS transaction limits are S1,000 per transaction and $3,000 a month but that can be changed by contacting them.
Yotter allows you to follow and gather all the content from your favorite Twitter and YouTube accounts in a beautiful feed so you can stay up to date without compromising your privacy at all:
https://github.com/pluja/Yotter
Not exactly. Just like Privacy, Paypal is neither Bank or C/C Co.but Paypal is the one that issues the "Authorization Reversal Notification" to the Merchant if after 30 days from Authorization Date the funds have not been captured by the Merchant. Paypal at no time ever actually has hands on your money.
When I read Privacy's disclaimer about Merchants ability to exceed Customer's preset limits and Privacy could not stop them even though in some cases it was illegal, Privacy was not a Court of Law. I thought, so much for that false sense of security.
I read the (full) ToS but I think that was in the ToS and the FAQ section (along with the max limits of $2,000/$4,000) which is larger than it first looks due to each section expanding. That's where I found out that they are Legally bound (like Paypal) to wait the full 30 days regardless whether the Merchant cancelled or not.
I will go and find where I read the Merchant/card limit disclaimer.
... formerly Spydish, formerly Debotnet ... what will it be next ?
... and Bloatbox, PatchCleaner, Patchfluent, SharpApp, WPD ...
What next ? Go Compare?
You're very welcome. :)
There are various way to enable automatic restore points, some through changing the registry, Task Scheduler, and Group Policy. The reliability of System Restore in Windows 10 has been questioned for some time. I haven't had any issues but it's worth noting that it may not work at some unknown point in the future.
Dr. A. Fauci & D. L. Birx, M.D. & Mr. Bob Woodward and I, we, exist within reality, this reality, EARTH is not flat. So when, you are saying some things untrue, propaganda, take a stroll, a walk, off the flat world edge you found, and with the extremely serious thingamabob, your squander, your mind.
What about FoxClocks extension of Firefox?
I find it very easy to use and customize, and it's quickly available if you have Firefox already open (as I normally do all the time).
Nothing wrong with it at all, if that's what works for you. I have several different browsers open at once, which is why I prefer something that works across all browsers platforms and that doesn't require an addon or extension.
While these are quite stunning, each video one is 30 minutes long looped 20 times to make 10 hours. A short logo is inserted between them. They are not 10 hours of original footage.
Yep I mentioned in the article that I didn't listen or watch any all the way through (I don't have the speed or bandwidth to so) and that they could be looped since the videos are so long. Thanks for paying attention to how long the loops were and mentioning it, I appeciate it.
Rhiannon
Beautiful wallpaper. I found a source for free and very interesting pictures & photos for wallpaper.
It's"Deviantart.com." Have you ever checked it out?
I'm happy you like it. I love DeviantArt, I've been a member for twelve years. I've occasionally posted wallpaper from there. Sometimes an author will remove things or close down their account, and resolutions are hit or miss. The wallpaper tag and topic areas are a good place for wallpapers.
FileHippo App Manager is no longer supported. SUMo has no direct links (even in the paid version).
Patch My PC has direct downloads with silent installation and a good list of programmes. It is clearly the best choice for Windows
https://patchmypc.com/home-updater
Not REALLY interested in giving anonymous strangers full access to data of that sort.
{Back in '79 when The Source suddenly appeared, based out of McLean VA, a friend pointed out that we really didn't know much about it, but that Langley VA is in that area, and he could think of one organisation that probably had lots of excess computer capacity in Langley that might be interested in looking at random private data...
Writing in 2020, I believe the area of screen session recordings has moved on A LOT since this comparison was made in 2016. I tried Icecream (given in the article as having no time limits) and found a 5min recording limit and a very shaky output file. Searching the web I went on to discover obsproject.com. This is an excellent screen recorder without time limits or watermark. What is probably a good 2020 summary of the free software available can be found here: https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/the-best-free-screen-recorder
Auto-monitoring software installs looks good, which is a feature that free version of IOBit also provides. Would like to test it later, however the program hasn't been updated for nearly a decade.
Love the idea but it seems to have been released too early - for non-mainstream browsers (which I use-eg Brave, Pale Moon and Opera) it either doesn't work or there are geeky workarounds which frankly I can't be bothered deciphering to find if they actually work, sad.
These browsers have millions of users so maybe "non-mainstream" is a stretch but the dev (who has a good looking, informative site) should have put a little more effort in. It's all very well to blame the people behind those other browsers for the incompatibility but the dev IS RELEASING THIS not those others.
From what I understand, the non-mainstream browsers have different APIs/coding.
It takes a lot of work to adapt an add-on to each browser and keep it updated.
To do something different or new in the add-on for each non-mainstream browser so the add-on/extension would work with all of them would be difficult and time consuming.
There's only one person developing this (and many other) add-ons. Most people who develop add-ons have their hands full keeping up with the browser upgrades and the ones I know of don't make money from their extensions and add-ons - they see a need and created something to fill it. Most of them have jobs so they can support themselves.
I don't see a fault or anything to blame anywhere.
I'm sure (in this case) that the developer would make changes so the add-on would work with all browsers if it could be done in a reasonable amount of time and with a reasonable amount of effort. It isn't just putting in a little more effort that would be required, it would be reworking the add-on for each browser.
Most developers want people to use their add-ons, that's why they make them.
I have an idea of what this developer goes through just keeping the add-on available at the Firefox Addons site. It's not easy and it's time consuming dealing with Mozilla and making sure the add-on conforms to standards and works with version upgrades.
I'm aware of a few developers who have tried to get their extensions to work with alternate browsers, specifically Brave. They can't make their extension work with Brave, period. It's not possible because of the way Brave is structured and how a particular extension works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There are web apps, sites and extensions that don't work in Brave - I use it as is, knowing that compatibility and usability are not front and center issues for them. They are developing what they envision the best browser to be. Their code won't allow some extensions to work because of how the extensions function, full stop. There's no blame to be laid, they are developing what they envision as the best browser. Most developers do the best they can to ensure compatibility across browsers.
I'm not calling out Brave, it's one of the non-mainstream browsers I use and am aware of a few people who tried to get their extension to work with Brave and discovered it's not possible.
Has anyone tried Blacklight on 'www.techsupportalert.com/' ? ;-)
[Might be nice if someone were to build a 'app' into which one could type the URL and then it would send it to blacklight to check it out and then show you the results on your own screen. And as well if you still wanted to use the site you could check a box and the URL would be typed into your browser so that off you could go to look at that site.]
Our site was the first one I checked. We have ad trackers and third party cookies that are consistent with our use of Google AdSense. Google AdSense is our only form of advertsing, it pays the site expenses.
Oddly enough in my checking some sites you would think have a bunch of trackers have one or two.
Interesting results. :
TechSupportAlert 13 Trackers , 21 Third Party Cookies
Weather.com 17 Trackers, 29 Third party Cookies ( After I entered my Zip Code)
If I were president of the world, I would ban twitter.
Most of the tweets (that I have seen) appear to deliberately avoid giving us any hint of what the tweet is about.
Thus everyone has to CLICK A LINK, just so that we can THEN see if it is a subject matter that we MIGHT be interested in.
Twitter can seem like a dumpster fire at times. I don't have a Twitter account but there are a handful of people I keep an eye on. I don't have the same experience as you've had with links with no reference though I don't like the bitly links they use to track and shorten URLs.
I keep in mind that at any given time, and more so when there large news events, that a significant percentage of Twitter accounts and tweets are from bots. You can purchase large amounts of bots rather inexpensively to gain followers, spread a message, or harass and target inividuals using large groups of bots.
If I keep in mind that Twitter is full of accounts created by bots it's bearable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FB Purity is a browser add-on that does this and much more. The developer seems very active keeping well ahead of FB's attempts to foist countless adverts and other crap on users.
According to this note on the extension’s own page this feature cannot be set from the extension itself unless I’ve missed something among the myriad of other settings?
“You are on the new Facebook design, and some of FBP's functionality may not yet work. If there is any functionality that is not working for you on the new Facebook design, please try switching to the old Facebook design, and see if that fixes your issue.”
Could you point me to where you see that? I've looked at the home page and the page for the Firefox and Chrome add-ons and the page that appears after installation and I'm missing it.
I'm not sure how you could set the feature from the extension itself, it changes the user agent string automatically. You can do that manually and there are add-ons that make it easy. Uninstalling it changes the user agent string to the current browser and version
The extension can be enabled/disabled from the address bar icon, but I don't see a way to change the user agent anywhere.
The page after installation says:
"This extension works by telling Facebook that you are actually using an old browser, which its new redesign doesn't support.
BUT... there are some side-effects of that. Some features may not work perfectly, some might not be available at all (i.e. Video Chat), and there may be some visual quirks.
Unfortunately, I can't do much about those things. Facebook thinks you are using an old browser, so it disables some things that won't work in old browsers. That's just a trade-off."
I currently have Firefox Nightly version 83 and could not get anything to pull up using chrome://global/content/config.xul. I eventually was able to find that the file type has been changed from (.xul) to (.xhtml). Therefore, after updating the link below it worked. Hopefully this helps.
chrome://global/content/config.xhtml
Website: https://harcourtsdeserthomes.com
Address: 119 N Indian Canyon Dr, Palm Springs CA 92262 United States
Phone: 760-864-4100
Harcourts Desert Homes are a group of premier Palm Springs Realtors. We specialize in helping desert residents across the Coachella Valley find residential and commercial real estate to buy and/or sell.
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.
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.
I often play on this site, this is a card game, fast loading speed and no ads, I am satisfied: http://www.solitairespider.co/
It's quick and easy, but I found no way to look up other cities without customization which requires a sigh in with GOOGLE !
Wish in one hand and dream in the other ...
Trouble with this is it doesn't show the consequences of turning stuff off.
Some of them are likely to break Windows.
If you want to try things you MUST create a restore point before you do.
Many of the tools I've seen that do this type of thing don't have descriptions, or descriptions are minimal. Winaero Tweak has excellent descriptions and more screen shots and information on the site. I'm not an expert but off the top of my head I didn't see anything in Privatezilla that would break Windows 10 or interefere with functioning. Any changes are easily undone using the "Revert" feature.
I agree with setting a restore point (a backup is better) but you'd have to enable System Restore, it's disabled by default in Windows 10. People who have been using System Restore for years and counting on automatic restore points who don't know it's disabled are out of luck.
Yes, I mentioned that in the article. That falls into the "cons" category for me, but people who love the ease of signing in everywhere with a Google account will like it. That's why I added the link in the article to the World Time Saver page, it lists many cities.
If you want a minmal interface and need to add customized cities I like http://itime.io/.
I can always hope "maybe one day..." :-)
You may need a different ID if your going to do a lot of Global Hoping. Maybe an ID in the MAC Address Format. A GUID, Globally Unique IDentifier.
I was hoping that this card unlike Paypal and Debit Cards, if you authorize a Merchant (make a purchase) to claim funds from your balance, the Merchant has 30 days to claim said funds. The funds will be deducted from your available balance for the whole 30 days even if the Merchant informs you after 3 days that the purchase has been cancelled due to ongoing "lack of stock" problems or he doesn't like the color of your Moped. I've had it happen twice in the same month. For $253.43 NIJ Certified Ballistic Panels and $153.00 for computer parts, cancelled after 5 days. Both purchases 3 days apart. Agreement states must hold in Escrow for 30 Days. I don't know if Credit Cards act differently since Credit could be issued at any time, I'm guessing. These seem to be a bit safer than a normal card but Merchants can still exceed your preset limits and a few other things I was reading in their info. Looks like Merchants were well represented when these Laws were drawn up. Customer representation, not so much.
Sorry about going on and on and ... .
give this web app a try too, perhaps.
and let us know your opinion.
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
I love timeanddate. I did look at the time zone converter, it's nicely done. I like the vertical bar that moves to highlight time zones and how you can hover over the location to get the location and time. It's great that islands are included. It easy to find so many cities. If you're working with people in different time zones, especially a group of people, it's more difficult to see the time where they are are quickly.
I'm not sure I want to be able to be identified that easily. :-)
I didn't find where merchants are allowed to exceed preset limits on a card created on Privacy, can you point me to that information?
Privacy is not a bank or a credit card company, it provides a virtual card number for transactions.
It doesn't hold any funds and transactions are between the merchant and your funding source.
If I remember correctly their TOS transaction limits are S1,000 per transaction and $3,000 a month but that can be changed by contacting them.
Not exactly. Just like Privacy, Paypal is neither Bank or C/C Co.but Paypal is the one that issues the "Authorization Reversal Notification" to the Merchant if after 30 days from Authorization Date the funds have not been captured by the Merchant. Paypal at no time ever actually has hands on your money.
When I read Privacy's disclaimer about Merchants ability to exceed Customer's preset limits and Privacy could not stop them even though in some cases it was illegal, Privacy was not a Court of Law. I thought, so much for that false sense of security.
I read the (full) ToS but I think that was in the ToS and the FAQ section (along with the max limits of $2,000/$4,000) which is larger than it first looks due to each section expanding. That's where I found out that they are Legally bound (like Paypal) to wait the full 30 days regardless whether the Merchant cancelled or not.
I will go and find where I read the Merchant/card limit disclaimer.
... formerly Spydish, formerly Debotnet ... what will it be next ?
... and Bloatbox, PatchCleaner, Patchfluent, SharpApp, WPD ...
What next ? Go Compare?
Thanks for this!
I couldn't find any setting to allow "automatic restore points" but just set a restore point before running PrivateZilla.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ No idea. :)
You're very welcome. :)
There are various way to enable automatic restore points, some through changing the registry, Task Scheduler, and Group Policy. The reliability of System Restore in Windows 10 has been questioned for some time. I haven't had any issues but it's worth noting that it may not work at some unknown point in the future.
Lib propaganda, hard pass and no thanks!
Dr. A. Fauci & D. L. Birx, M.D. & Mr. Bob Woodward and I, we, exist within reality, this reality, EARTH is not flat. So when, you are saying some things untrue, propaganda, take a stroll, a walk, off the flat world edge you found, and with the extremely serious thingamabob, your squander, your mind.
the information is so useful and keep sharing things like this one
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>> Trouble with this is it doesn't show the consequences of turning stuff off.
Did you see the tooltips?
Ah yep I saw them and then managed to promptly forget them. Thanks for the reminder, I've updated the article. :)
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Thanks rhiannon!
Great find!
Peter
I'm glad you like it. I had fun with it.
What about FoxClocks extension of Firefox?
I find it very easy to use and customize, and it's quickly available if you have Firefox already open (as I normally do all the time).
Nothing wrong with it at all, if that's what works for you. I have several different browsers open at once, which is why I prefer something that works across all browsers platforms and that doesn't require an addon or extension.
Just discovered "PDF Reader by Xodo", a Microsoft app that is a free download. It does it all, and it works on a desktop PC with Win 10.
a great add to this list is PDFWrench.com : theyre a free pdf merge tool
While these are quite stunning, each video one is 30 minutes long looped 20 times to make 10 hours. A short logo is inserted between them. They are not 10 hours of original footage.
Yep I mentioned in the article that I didn't listen or watch any all the way through (I don't have the speed or bandwidth to so) and that they could be looped since the videos are so long. Thanks for paying attention to how long the loops were and mentioning it, I appeciate it.
Grateful for this.
Five stars for this one. Thanks. And the beta which is near release is even better
Rhiannon
Beautiful wallpaper. I found a source for free and very interesting pictures & photos for wallpaper.
It's"Deviantart.com." Have you ever checked it out?
That's great, I'm happy you like it.
Thanks. I'm looking forward to the beta too.
I'm happy you like it. I love DeviantArt, I've been a member for twelve years. I've occasionally posted wallpaper from there. Sometimes an author will remove things or close down their account, and resolutions are hit or miss. The wallpaper tag and topic areas are a good place for wallpapers.
Very nice, thanks for all the hard work
FileHippo App Manager is no longer supported. SUMo has no direct links (even in the paid version).
Patch My PC has direct downloads with silent installation and a good list of programmes. It is clearly the best choice for Windows
https://patchmypc.com/home-updater
Thank you, I'm glad you like it.
Not REALLY interested in giving anonymous strangers full access to data of that sort.
{Back in '79 when The Source suddenly appeared, based out of McLean VA, a friend pointed out that we really didn't know much about it, but that Langley VA is in that area, and he could think of one organisation that probably had lots of excess computer capacity in Langley that might be interested in looking at random private data...
Writing in 2020, I believe the area of screen session recordings has moved on A LOT since this comparison was made in 2016. I tried Icecream (given in the article as having no time limits) and found a 5min recording limit and a very shaky output file. Searching the web I went on to discover obsproject.com. This is an excellent screen recorder without time limits or watermark. What is probably a good 2020 summary of the free software available can be found here: https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/the-best-free-screen-recorder
Finally this category has been updated from scratch and we have a new top pick.
Auto-monitoring software installs looks good, which is a feature that free version of IOBit also provides. Would like to test it later, however the program hasn't been updated for nearly a decade.
Love the idea but it seems to have been released too early - for non-mainstream browsers (which I use-eg Brave, Pale Moon and Opera) it either doesn't work or there are geeky workarounds which frankly I can't be bothered deciphering to find if they actually work, sad.
These browsers have millions of users so maybe "non-mainstream" is a stretch but the dev (who has a good looking, informative site) should have put a little more effort in. It's all very well to blame the people behind those other browsers for the incompatibility but the dev IS RELEASING THIS not those others.
From what I understand, the non-mainstream browsers have different APIs/coding.
It takes a lot of work to adapt an add-on to each browser and keep it updated.
To do something different or new in the add-on for each non-mainstream browser so the add-on/extension would work with all of them would be difficult and time consuming.
There's only one person developing this (and many other) add-ons. Most people who develop add-ons have their hands full keeping up with the browser upgrades and the ones I know of don't make money from their extensions and add-ons - they see a need and created something to fill it. Most of them have jobs so they can support themselves.
I don't see a fault or anything to blame anywhere.
I'm sure (in this case) that the developer would make changes so the add-on would work with all browsers if it could be done in a reasonable amount of time and with a reasonable amount of effort. It isn't just putting in a little more effort that would be required, it would be reworking the add-on for each browser.
Most developers want people to use their add-ons, that's why they make them.
I have an idea of what this developer goes through just keeping the add-on available at the Firefox Addons site. It's not easy and it's time consuming dealing with Mozilla and making sure the add-on conforms to standards and works with version upgrades.
I'm aware of a few developers who have tried to get their extensions to work with alternate browsers, specifically Brave. They can't make their extension work with Brave, period. It's not possible because of the way Brave is structured and how a particular extension works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There are web apps, sites and extensions that don't work in Brave - I use it as is, knowing that compatibility and usability are not front and center issues for them. They are developing what they envision the best browser to be. Their code won't allow some extensions to work because of how the extensions function, full stop. There's no blame to be laid, they are developing what they envision as the best browser. Most developers do the best they can to ensure compatibility across browsers.
I'm not calling out Brave, it's one of the non-mainstream browsers I use and am aware of a few people who tried to get their extension to work with Brave and discovered it's not possible.
Doesn't using Tor-browser accomplish the same thing?
I don't know. My internet connection is too slow to use Tor. The handful of times I've tried Tor it hasn't worked at all well.
This looks like a very useful thing to have in the 'toolbox'. Much appreciated Rhiannon, thank you.
Has anyone tried Blacklight on 'www.techsupportalert.com/' ? ;-)
[Might be nice if someone were to build a 'app' into which one could type the URL and then it would send it to blacklight to check it out and then show you the results on your own screen. And as well if you still wanted to use the site you could check a box and the URL would be typed into your browser so that off you could go to look at that site.]
You're so welcome, I'm glad you think it will be useful.
Our site was the first one I checked. We have ad trackers and third party cookies that are consistent with our use of Google AdSense. Google AdSense is our only form of advertsing, it pays the site expenses.
Oddly enough in my checking some sites you would think have a bunch of trackers have one or two.
Interesting results. :
TechSupportAlert 13 Trackers , 21 Third Party Cookies
Weather.com 17 Trackers, 29 Third party Cookies ( After I entered my Zip Code)
If I were president of the world, I would ban twitter.
Most of the tweets (that I have seen) appear to deliberately avoid giving us any hint of what the tweet is about.
Thus everyone has to CLICK A LINK, just so that we can THEN see if it is a subject matter that we MIGHT be interested in.
Twitter can seem like a dumpster fire at times. I don't have a Twitter account but there are a handful of people I keep an eye on. I don't have the same experience as you've had with links with no reference though I don't like the bitly links they use to track and shorten URLs.
I keep in mind that at any given time, and more so when there large news events, that a significant percentage of Twitter accounts and tweets are from bots. You can purchase large amounts of bots rather inexpensively to gain followers, spread a message, or harass and target inividuals using large groups of bots.
If I keep in mind that Twitter is full of accounts created by bots it's bearable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FB Purity is a browser add-on that does this and much more. The developer seems very active keeping well ahead of FB's attempts to foist countless adverts and other crap on users.
According to this note on the extension’s own page this feature cannot be set from the extension itself unless I’ve missed something among the myriad of other settings?
“You are on the new Facebook design, and some of FBP's functionality may not yet work. If there is any functionality that is not working for you on the new Facebook design, please try switching to the old Facebook design, and see if that fixes your issue.”
MC – Site Manager.
I've used FB Purity, it's good. That developer and this one have their hands full trying to keep ahead of FB.
Could you point me to where you see that? I've looked at the home page and the page for the Firefox and Chrome add-ons and the page that appears after installation and I'm missing it.
I'm not sure how you could set the feature from the extension itself, it changes the user agent string automatically. You can do that manually and there are add-ons that make it easy. Uninstalling it changes the user agent string to the current browser and version
The extension can be enabled/disabled from the address bar icon, but I don't see a way to change the user agent anywhere.
The page after installation says:
"This extension works by telling Facebook that you are actually using an old browser, which its new redesign doesn't support.
BUT... there are some side-effects of that. Some features may not work perfectly, some might not be available at all (i.e. Video Chat), and there may be some visual quirks.
Unfortunately, I can't do much about those things. Facebook thinks you are using an old browser, so it disables some things that won't work in old browsers. That's just a trade-off."
Try checking a few competitors. I checked lowes.com and homedepot.com and was surprised by the very different results.
I currently have Firefox Nightly version 83 and could not get anything to pull up using chrome://global/content/config.xul. I eventually was able to find that the file type has been changed from (.xul) to (.xhtml). Therefore, after updating the link below it worked. Hopefully this helps.
chrome://global/content/config.xhtml
Thanks for the update, it's still in the current stable version (81.0).
I'll see about updating it when the current stable version removes it.
Thank you for another nice one
Jing appears to be no more - the link goes to Techsmith, but leads to Snagit screen recorder.
Our download link does point to the new free replacement which is currently receiving mixed reviews. This is the story so far:
https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360071934232-Jing...
MC - Site Manager
I thought Cypress trees were evergreen.
I'm happy you like it. :)
I think they're deciduous. I've seen them lose their leaves in the dry season in the Everglades.
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Installed on Friday. So far no errors, no error messages, no "update" request from facebok.
Only in America would they have deciduous cypress trees!
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