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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button. yEd is freely available and runs on all major platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac OS X .
yEd - Graph Editor
Hacks/Tools
Cheat Sheets
Check out MakeUseOf cheat sheets that list shortcuts for a number of essential programs that you probably use on a daily basis. Those will definitely make you more productive. All free.
It may turn out to be true after all that the best things in life are free. Certainly when it comes to software and services designed to make your PC faster, more fun, and easier to use, there's no shortage of amazing freebies. Whether you're looking to speed up boot times, block malware and viruses, manage your media, or work smarter from the road, we've got you covered. PCWorld's editors have scoured the Web, hunted through app markets, and tracked down the best downloads, tools, services, and apps for your computer, your tablet, and your smartphone. Here is our list of the best free stuff of 2011. To read the related story about each category of free stuff, click the appropriate heading below, or use the contents box to the right.
Best Free Stuff for Your PC (and Mobile Devices) - PCWorld
Downloads - VirtualBox
Here, you will find links to VirtualBox binaries and its source code. VirtualBox binaries ¶ By downloading, you agree to the terms and conditions of the respective license.
13 Power-Packed Productivity Tools - PCWorld
Simpler Web viewing: Remember when the Web was adless and clutter-free? A browser add-on called Readability takes you back to those times by stripping any page down to its main article. No ads. Minimal navigation menus. Almost no clutter. It's great for creating printer-friendly pages, and for distraction-free reading.
GNU make This file documents the GNU make utility, which determines automatically which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issues the commands to recompile them. This is Edition 0.71, last updated 19 July 2010, of The GNU Make Manual , for GNU make version 3.82. Copyright © 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being “A GNU Manual,” and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License.”
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GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
by Gary V. Vaughan , Ben Elliston , Tom Tromey and Ian Lance Taylor This is the Authors' homepage for The Goat Book by Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey and Ian Lance Taylor, first published in October 2000 by New Riders publishing, now under the auspices of Sams Publishing (a subsidiary of Pearson Education). Aside from the subject matter, the book is also interesting because it was written in collaboration over the internet, even though we have mostly never met each other in person, and we are physically spread across the entire globe.
Feb 5, 2005 Cygwin is a software package that enables one to work in a UNIX-like environment under a Windows machine. It is fast, reliable and easy to install. It has most of the applications one uses on UNIX (gcc, X, xfig, latex, Perl, bash, ps tools, textutils,...) and most of it is covered by the GNU public license. Cygwin supports many flavors of Windows:XP, 2000, 98, etc. For more info on cygwin go to Cygwin.com .
Cygwin on portable storage devices (Devin Sezer)
