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61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For. Portable App Directory. 7 Websites to Help You Edit and Manipulate Photos. By Johnny Webber 1. Background Burner – Remove backgrounds from any images or photos. 2. Corruptus – Corrupt any image beyond recognition. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. If This Video Doesn't Convince You To Put Down Your Phone, Nothing Probably Will. 50+ Useful Firefox Extensions for College Students. Block Posters - Create large wall posters from any image for free! DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. Miro - Free, open-source music and video player. Learn Basic Linux Commands with This Downloadable Cheat Sheet.

How to Capture Desktop Screen Video using VLC Media Player. Do you want to Record or Capture your computer screen as a Video file? Then read this article. In this article you will get to know how to record desktop screen using VLC media player. There might be several reasons that you want to Capture your computer screen. Maybe you play lots of computer games and you want to record them as Gameplay Video to publish them on youtube.

Or You may be making How to or tutorial videos that need desktop screen recording. VLC Media Player is ready for this purpose. You don’t need any other Screen Capture software. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. You are done! You can watch the Video Guide below: You can read our previous article How to Cut Video with VLC Media Player. How to Make GIMP Work More Like Photoshop. 19 Tips Every Windows 7 User Needs to Know - Page 5. How to load Windows 7 onto a bootable USB key To complete your Windows 7 power-user experience, you may consider dropping the whole darn OS onto a USB drive. Whether you carry it around in your pocket or toss it in a desk drawer, it’s a perfect boot disk for emergency installs—including those times when you’re working with a netbook or some other computer that lacks an optical drive.

Even better, your install times will be significantly reduced, thanks to your key’s flash memory—we shaved off minutes from our total install time. Here’s how to create a schmancy-fancy boot key for either Windows 7 or Vista—but not for other OSes, so please don’t try! 1. Plug in your USB key and back up any existing data stored on it. 2. Open up a command prompt as an Administrator. You should now be under C:\Windows\system32 (assuming your Windows partition is the C drive). 3. Select Disk # (where # is the number of your USB disk. Select Partition 1 (focuses operation on the newly created partition) 4. 5. We've Open-Sourced Everything - CodeCombat Blog. CodeCombat is a programming game for learning to code; a multiplayer coding challenge arena for sharpening your skills; a Y-Combinator-funded startup; and as of this weekend, the largest open source CoffeeScript project and a fantastic way to get into open source and game development. Whether you’re a novice programmer wanting to figure out this GitHub thing or an open source guru looking for something to sink your teeth into, check out our GitHub and join over two hundred CodeCombat Archmages in building the best programming game ever.

Yes, we just open-sourced the last year of our lives–all the code, art, and music for CodeCombat–under the MIT and Creative Commons licenses. “Wait. You’re a for-profit startup, but you’re giving away all of your code? Are you crazy?” Nope! Our mission is to teach you to code. We need your help. Want to help in other ways? Your new PC needs these 22 free programs. In today’s multidevice world, cloud syncing and storage services are practically a must-have, as they allow you to pick up where you left off no matter which PC, phone, or tablet you’re working on.

Microsoft’s SkyDrive is thoroughly intertwined with Windows 8.1, but if you’re using Windows 8, 7, Vista, or XP, be sure to grab the desktop app for your cloud service of choice to ensure that your files travel with you. OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox drastically increased their available storage in 2014, while simultaneously sending prices plummeting.

Heck, OneDrive and Google Drive rolled out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 and Google Apps subscribers, respectively. Box has as well. That’s better than a hard drive in the sky. Best Privacy Tools. Emulation Products from Marat Fayzullin. EMULATORSlibraries, tools, and documentation by Marat Fayzullin Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, GameBoy, Super GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, Pocket Printer, GameLink, and DiskSystem are trademarks of Nintendo. SEGA SG-1000, SC-3000, SF-7000, Mark II/III, Master System, and GameGear are trademarks of SEGA. While programs presented at this site attempt to create "compatible" environment for the gaming software, they are not equivalent to the original hardware. Emulators are programs that make old software "think" that it is running on the original hardware, while it really runs on your smartphone or in a window on your desktop.

For those who would like to try making an emulator on their own but do not know where to start, I have written a short introduction into the craft and provided free libraries, tools, and documentation. . © Marat Fayzullin [marat at komkon dot org] Toribash - Violence Perfected - A physics based fighting game. Must-Have Freeware (Advanced Uses) - Featured software selections at SnapFiles. Article: The Top 100 Indie Games. Here's a list of 100 indie games that I've enjoyed. This list includes freeware games, shareware games, japanese indie import games, mods, and works in progress (WIP). It does not include browser games. I've tried to spread different genres more evenly around in the list so take the order as more of a general idea of how they rank than an absolute win/lose situation. This is not an exhaustive list and I encourage anyone with games that I forgot to post them in the forum. For old Dos games, I suggest using Dos Box. Some of these games come in .rar or .lzh format and if you can't open them, try the freeware 7-Zip.

Some of these games are japanese and need to be downloaded through a website called Vector. The List! #100 Cosmic Invaders Direct Link (Freeware) Tower Defense meets Space Invaders. . #99 Typestriker XE (Freeware) An odd attempt to mix Shmups with a typing tutor. . #98 Red Ace Squadron Pro (Shareware) WWI "lite" flight sim with multiplayer capabilities. . #97 Harpooned (Freeware) ListOfOpenSourcePrograms. Turn an Old Computer Into a Do-Anything Home Server with FreeNAS 8. OverAPI.com | Collecting all the cheat sheets. Hackety Hack! LiberKey - Portable Applications.