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12 Great Must-Have Softwares For Your Newly Bought Laptop. So you bought a new laptop and probably it came preloaded with Windows. Now what? In today's Daily Feature section, we give you 12 softwares that every new Windows PC should have. All the softwares mentioned here are freewares that you can download and use without spending a penny. 1. PC Decrapifier - Remove All Pre-Installed Trial Version Software Thanks to certain diabolical agreements made between your laptop manufacturer and software companies, your laptop comes with numerous trial version softwares pre-installed, whose icons will be found littered on the fresh desktop that you boot into. Now would be a good time to kiss goodbye to all those pre-installed bloatwares and install something useful. It would have been a real pain if you had to manually uninstall all those programs.

Download PC Decrapifier 2. Now you need to protect your Laptop from viruses, worms and trojan horses. Download AVG Free 3. Download Comodo Personal Firewall 4. 7z File Archiever Download 7z 5. Download Firefox 6. 7. 35 cool and fun things to try with your PC. Spreadsheets, word processing and databases. Limiting a modern PC to running these bread and butter tasks is like buying a Ferrari and driving it to the corner shop. The question is, with a fast processor, a quick internet connection and a little imagination, what can a PC really do?

We've asked our writers to kick back and let their imaginations run riot. Security expert Jon Thompson inevitably got involved with spying and subterfuge, uber geek Mike Williams remote controlled his home PC with Twitter and joker Jamie Middleton decided to change the world. So read on and spare a thought for those PCs condemned to a life of office work. 1. Keep high-def YouTube videos There are quite a few sites, plug-ins and apps that allow you to download videos from YouTube in Flash Video format. It works like this. 2. Many films from the golden age of cinema have fallen out of copyright. One such archive is www.publicdomaintorrents.com, which provides content as torrents. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Free Software for Windows. 100 best ever free PC system tools: Windows security tools. Protect yourself and your PC with this collection of useful free security tools Panda Cloud Antivirus www.cloudantivirus.com/en When it comes to protecting your computer from the latest malware, why should you pick this relative newcomer to the freebie scene?

Is it easy to use? Check – the user interface is one of simplest we've seen. Is it light on system resources? Check – it only uses around 10MB of memory, meaning it won't slow down even low-specced PCs. Ah, but what about the essential protection? Even here, however, it's on a par with most other freebies on the market. Malwarebytes www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php No security tool is infallible, which is where Malwarebytes comes in. Threatfire Free www.threatfire.com Threatfire bends the rules of security software: despite its real-time protection against malware, it won't conflict with any anti-virus tool already installed on your PC.

TrueCrypt www.truecrypt.org If you want to protect your data, create and mount your container. Step 1. Roadmap to become an engineer without degree. I have seen a lot of questions on Stack Overflow and Quora about this topic. So, I’ve decided to compile a list of things that will set you on the right track.

The courses I have listed below were selected based on my university curriculum, personal experience as a Java engineer in a web hosting company (so I have some knowledge about what is really needed and what not) and industry requirements (i.e. Google, etc). I will only recommend you textbooks that I have used (and still use) and when I will read more of them, I will update the article as soon as possible. University courses Optional university courses Industry courses Useful sites Codeacademy (HTML & CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Python, Ruby)Stack Overflow (search before asking for help)Quora (to follow personalities in tech, meet like-minded people and check latest trends) Textbooks:

List of free and open-source software packages. 15 Fresh Free Fonts for Your Next Design. Free Software. [ Home | What's New | Public Pages | Tell Friends | Privacy Policy | FAQ | Help | About myHq ] Questions? /Suggestions? /Enquiries? Contact the webmaster@myhq.comv2.0 Last updated :- 02:57 11-17-2019 EST myHq was created by eMason, also the creator of bookHq.

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