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The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:39:32 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Listed below are 46 different freeware categories with my selection of the best products in each category. The list is ordered by program function rather than merit so you'll get the most out of it by browsing down this page at leisure. The pathologically impatient can consult the index below.


1 Best Free Web Browser	Sponsored links:	31 Best Free Screen Capture Utility
2 Best Free Anti-Virus Software	Best Backup Program	32 Best Free Search Toolbar
3 Best Free Adware/Spyware/Scumware Remover	Best Spyware Detector	33 Best Free Download Manager
4 Best Free Browser Protection Utility	Best Remote Access Software	34 Best Free Web Site Ripper
5 Best Free Firewall	Best Spam Blocker for Dummies	35 Best Free Download/Upload Meter
6 Best Free Trojan Scanner/Trojan Remover	Best Anti-trojan Scanner	36 Best Free TCP Settings Tweaker
7 Best Free Rootkit Scanner/Remover	19 Best Free Desktop Search Utility	37 Best Free File Cleaner
8 Best Free Intrusion Detection Utility	20 Best Free Digital Image Viewer	38 Best Free Resource Meter
9 Best Free Anonymous Surfing Service	21 Best Free Digital Image Editor	39 Best Free Sticky Notes Utility
10 Best Free Software Suite	22 Best Free Digital Photo Organizer	40 Best Free Secure Erase Utility
11 Best Free File Manager	23 Best Free Notepad Replacement	41 Best Free Registry Editor
12 Best Free Email Client	24 Best File Archiver/Zip Utility	42 Best Free Process Viewer
13 Best Free Web Mail Accessory	25 Best Free Hotkey Utility	43 Best Free System Information Utility
14 Best Free Clipboard Replacement Utility	26 Best Free Registry Cleaner	44 Best Free Search and Replace Utility
15 Best Free HTML Editor	27 Best Free BitTorrent Client	45 Best Free Outliner
16 Best Free Spam Filter for the Average User	28 Best Free FTP Client	46 Best Free Rename Utility
17 Best Free Spam Filter for Experienced Users	29 Best Free Bookmark Cleaner
18 Best Free Popup Stopper	30 Best Free Folder Synchronization Utility	47-103 latest additions to the list

Tags: software, computer, freeware, technology, science, utilities

The 70 coolest FREE applications in existence

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:47:08 GMT

clipped by: Mohir

Clip Source: www.seopher.com

The 70 coolest free applications in existence

At the end of August I created a list of the 40 coolest free applications around which proved quite popular. As with all lists of this type the wisdom of the crowds brought forward numerous other suggestions that I'd overlooked for one reason or another - so here is the revised list.

As with the original list, the purpose is to collate some of the best free applications (and sometimes online services) that can be found on the Internet. I spend a lot of time on the Internet (through my work as a web developer) so it's always worth pooling a decent list of resources to those who are more fortunate to have time away from computers. See below for a brief list of what's covered:

Image, Image Editing and Graphics

Office

Web and web development

Development Applications (IDE's)

Operating Systems

Video Playback

Audio

Anti-Virus and Security

Downloading and Download Managers

Remote Access

Tags: software, internet, windows, free, freeware

Photos taken at precise moments and angles...yield striking results.

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:26:48 GMT

clipped by: bigshoulders
clipper's remarks: the first image is quite striking... that figure skater is ALL kinds of flexible.

Clip Source: forum.cybernetnews.com

Tags: photography, photos, odd

Steps of How to Hack Into a Computer

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:13:13 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: http://www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk/Framework.png

Clip Source: www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk

Tags: hack, computer, howto, steps, visual, representation, image, overview, hacking

How to tell if images were faked

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:43:17 GMT

clipped by: bigb0b

Clip Source: consumerist.com

HOW TO: Tell If Images Were Faked

As a skeptical consumer, you've probably looked at photo in the news or a piece of advertising and thought, hey, I bet that was faked. Now with a little help from Photoshop, and Tim Mathenson's tutorial, you can tell.

• Open Photoshop
• Open questionable image
• Press CTRL+U or go to Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation
• Set Hue to low
• Set Saturation to high
• Scroll the light bar back and forth, looking for areas of the image that don't match
• If you find a splotch of discoloration, that may indicate the picture was retouched.

Tim says this will work on any retouched photo, not just Photoshopped ones. — BEN POPKEN

How to tell fake images from real ones using Photoshop [Tim Matheson]

Tags: pictures, photoshop, photos, fake

This is NOT a Photograph

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:57:33 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: Click here to learn more about how Dru creates photorealistic paintings.

Clip Source: www.drublair.com

Painting of Tica by Dru Blair

This is a painting completed in February 2005. It was a Portrait Class project that I decided to finish in my spare time after the workshop. It probably took a total of around 65-75 hours to complete. The small images are step by step photographs taken during the painting process, and the large image is the final painting after detail and skin texture are added with an eraser and colored pencil.

~Dru Blair

Detail of final painting showing skin texture. Subtle nuances created by an xacto knife, an eraser, and some colored pencil can build convincing skin texture. The etcetera technique also helps the believability of the skin and hair texture. Fine hair is created using my shield-reveal technique, and my split frisket technique. Airbrush constitutes about 99% of the image.

Click here to learn more about how Dru creates photorealistic paintings.

Tags: painting, airbrush, dru blair, portrait, technique

HowTo: Free and Huge custom poster for your wall

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:21:01 GMT

clipped by: rainfever

Clip Source: www.makeuseof.com

HowTo: Free and Huge custom poster for your wall

Here, I want to quickly illustrate how to create, huge(up to 20 meters), awesome looking, rasterized wall posters using previously mentioned Rasterbator. It’s free and easy to use piece of software and the whole procedure won’t take you more then 5-10 min(not incl. poster printing and putting it on your wall). Enjoy!

Steps:

1. Get Rasterbator: You can either download it from here or use its web version. Although, keep in mind that online version puts some restrictions on output size and resolution

2. Run rasterbator and select source image

3. Select paper size and alignment: The rasterbated image will be automatically split onto several pages, so you need specify the format of each unit paper(A4, A3 etc) and its alignment(horizontal or vertical). If you plan to print poster yourself then make sure to select paper format supported by your printer(ex; A4)

4. Define output size: Output size is defined by the amount of papers to be used for image width or height. For instance, you can tell rasterbator to produce a poster with a width equivalent to 12 horizontally-aligned A4 papers(see poster below).

5. Set rasterbation options: Specify color and resolution settings

6. Select output directory and press Press ‘Rasterbate!’

7. Done: Print it and put it on your wall

Technorati Tags: poster, print, rasterbator

Tags: poster, print, rasterbater

12 Writing Tips From George Orwell

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:14:30 GMT

clipped by: missangelyss

Clip Source: www.writingclasses.com

George Orwell has earned the right to be called one of the finer writers in the English language through such novels as 1984 and Animal Farm, such essays as “Shooting an Elephant,” and his memoir Down and Out in Paris.

George expressed a strong dislike of totalitarian governments in his work, but he was also passionate defender of good writing. Thus, you may want to hear some of George’s writing tips.*

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:

What am I trying to say?
What words will express it?
What image or idiom will make it clearer?
Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

And he will probably ask himself two more:

Could I put it more shortly?
Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?

One can often be in doubt about the effect of a word or a phrase, and one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the following rules will cover most cases:

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

* From “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell.

Back

Tags: writing

Free Stock Photos

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:09:27 GMT

clipped by: digitalnu

Clip Source: pstutorialsblog.com

Free Stock Photos

Stock photos are an essential part of web and graphic design. There are tons of stock photos agencies that offer high quality photos, however, the price is not always affordable especially when working on a tight budget or sometimes with no budget at all. The solution in this case is finding free stock photos something that isn’t always easy, in order to make this process easier I have compiled a list with sites that offer free stock photos. Enjoy

Stock Exchange (highly recommended)
Morguefile (highly recommended)
Image After
Free Photos Bank
OpenPhoto
BigFoto
USDA
NASA
NOAA
NPS
Earth from Space
FWS1
FWS2
Picture Station
Geek Philosopher
Free Images
Pixel Perfect Digital
FreeFoto
Image Base
Cepolina
Amazing Textures
Texture Warehouse
PDPhoto
Image Blowout
Piotrpix
Mandragora
Fotogenica
Mayang
Free Photo Station
Cromavista
Afflict
Creativity 103
The Photo Repository
Aarin Free Photo
Stockvault
Designpacks
Unprofound
Four Bees
Insect Images
Free media Goo
Burning Well
A digital Dreamer
Freestockphotos.com
Freewebpics
Lightmatter
Majestic Imagery
Triparalbum
Demny Onink
Twice Pix
AboutPixel
Woophy
Pixelquelle
Litetek
PIX
tOfz
Fontplay
Orangetrash
ArtFavor
ImageTemple
LogoDesignweb
Fotodatebank
Bajstock
Pixelbag
NWYH Stock Images (Thanks Richard)
PhotoCase (Thanks Ingo)
NPS Digital Image Index (Thanks Jersu)
Gimp-Savy (Thanks Jared)
DeviantArt

Finally don’t forget to visit
Yotophoto Free photos search engine
and Flickr (be sure to check the licence before using any of the photos).
If you know of any others stock photo resources reave a comment and I will add them to the list.

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Tags: free stock photos

Examine This Image At Full Size Very Carefully

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:55:16 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Quite amazing what is there.

Clip Source: pictures.pichaus.com

Tags: pictures, art

The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:57:20 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: No clipmarks for them?

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

the stark realities of life in North Korea were perhaps most evident in a simple satellite image over the shoulder of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during an Oct. 11 briefing. The image showed the two Koreas — North and South — photographed at night.

The South was illuminated from coast to coast, suggesting that not just lights, but that other, arguably more bedrock utility of the modern age — information — was pulsating through the population.

The North was black.

This is an impoverished country where televisions and radios are hard-wired to receive only government-controlled frequencies. Cellphones were banned outright in 2004. In May, the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York ranked North Korea No. 1 — over also-rans like Burma, Syria and Uzbekistan — on its list of the “10 Most Censored Countries.”

That would seem to leave the question of Internet access in North Korea moot.

At a time when much of the world takes for granted a fat and growing network of digitized human knowledge, art, history, thought and debate, it is easy to forget just how much is being denied the people who live under the veil of darkness revealed in that satellite photograph.

While other restrictive regimes have sought to find ways to limit the Internet — through filters and blocks and threats — North Korea has chosen to stay wholly off the grid.

Julien Pain, head of the Internet desk at Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based group which tracks censorship around the world, put it more bluntly. “It is by far the worst Internet black hole,” he said.

Tags: internet, technology, korea, censorship, information, web, politics, government, news, photographs, satellite, society, media, asia

My USB Flash Drive Toolkit

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:46:19 GMT

clipped by: knslyr
clipper's remarks: 2006.07.27
Updated Programs and Screenshots here: USB ToolKit

Enjoy.

Clip Source: www.pridestomb.com

USB ToolKit

Even though there have been plenty of clips and links to USB portable apps, I thought I would pass on the particular specs and setup for my USB flash drive. I use it daily, and it has become an indispensable tool in my personal and professional life. Most of the apps are free, a few are reasonable and worth every penny. Enjoy.

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MY DRIVE
USB Drive of Choice: Lexar Jumpdrive Lightning (2 GB)

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MY LOAD
Stand Alone, Completely Portable Software (Screenshots Follow):
* Denotes most frequently used apps

Launcher (Menu): PStart *
Password Vault/Web Site Launcher: Roboform Portable (Pass2Go) *
Secure Encrypted Drives/Partitions: TrueCrypt Secure Drive *
Web Browser: Portable Firefox of Course!
Image Viewer: FastStone Image Viewer *
Image Capture: FastStone Capture
Secure File Shred: CyberShredder
FTP Client: FileZilla

Office Suite: Portable OpenOffice

Web Editor: NVU Web Editor
Notepad: Notepad ++
PDF Maker: AcroPad PDF Creator
PDF Viewer: Foxit PDF Viewer

IM Client: Portable GAIM

Process/Thread Monitor: SysInternals Process Explorer *
Realtime File Monitor: SysInternals FileSystem Monitor *

(note: SysInternals has a TON of FREE and incredibly useful utilities, worth a look)

Startup/Process Audit: A2HijackFree System Sleuth

Spyware/Malware Detection: Rootkit Revealer (die Sony die)

Folder Documentation: Directory Lister *
File Manager (Explorer): A43 File Management Utility
File Recovery/Undelete: Restoration File Recovery *
File Encryption: OMZIFF Encryption

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PStart Main Menu

PStart OpenOffice Sub-Menu

PStart Applications Sub-Menu

PStart Utilities Sub-Menu

TrueCrypt Secure Drive

FastStone Image Viewer

SysInternals Process Explorer

SysInternals File Monitor

Directory Lister

Restoration File Recovery

Posted by knslyr on 2006.06.22 at 08:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: usb drive, portable apps, u3, usb, flash drive, thumb drive

Spectacular formation remains a puzzle

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:07:09 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: www.darkroastedblend.com

The Richat Structure, Oudane, Mauritania, is not really a structure but a huge circular formation (50 km in diameter - 30 miles), that resembles an eye when looked upon from space. Originally thought to be a crater, this volcanic dome is most likely a product of erosion, an ancient geological artifact in the middle of featureless Maur Adrar desert, in Africa's Western Sahara. The earliest space missions used it as a landmark, the adventurous 4x4 enthusiasts consider it to be their playground, and scientists are still debating its origin.

Clip Source: maps.google.com

Clip Source: www.darkroastedblend.com

The meteorite impact theory could not explain the flatness of the "crater"'s floor, so the most accepted explanation is the erosion of the initial volcanic dome, which gradually peeled away the layers of rock, creating the present onion-like form.

Johnnie Shannon image-enhanced the satellite image, clearly showing an eroded circular anticline (structural dome) of layered sedimentary rocks:

there is also a hotel smack in the middle of the Richat Structure

Tags: geology, interesting, science

FREE software

Tue, 15 May 2007 02:07:48 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: heliologue.com

Web Browsers

Instant Messaging Clients

Miscellaneous P2P Clients

Antivirus Clients

Software Firewalls

Spyware Prevention/Removal

Security and Encryption Software

Office/Publishing/Productivity Software

Editors and IDEs

HTML editing and web design

Personal Finance

PDF Reading and Writing

Video

Audio

Image Utilities

CD Burning

Virtual Disc utilities

Archivers and Compressors

Diagnostics/OS tools

Emulators

Tags: free, software, downloads

Music Makes Your Brain Happy

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:22:10 GMT

clipped by: shunyax

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Brain areas involved in listening to music are the same as those involved in other pleasurable activities, such as orgasms, eating chocolate or winning a bet.

Image: Courtesy of Vinod Menon and Daniel J. Levitin

Tags: music, brain