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The 32 Totally Essential (and Free) Apps for Every New PC

The 32 Totally Essential (and Free) Apps for Every New PC
You have to admit, Windows is a pretty barebones operating system, feature-wise. After a fresh install of XP or Vista (perhaps following a Clean Start), you're faced with a barren Start Menu and an empty desktop that's beaming with limitless potential. The problem is that it's up to you to hunt and download those applications that you really need in your day-to-day computing experience. And chances are, it's often difficult to find good software that's also free. We've put together a list of what we think are the most essential PC apps for every Maximum PC reader. And at the end of the feature, we'll even show you how to install these apps in one fell swoop with a special configuration file we've created. WinDirStat Have you ever sorted a folder by file size, hoping to track down a hard disk hog, only to be frustrated by the fact that Windows doesn’t let you see the size of nested folders’ contents? AnyDVD Foxit PDF Reader VMWare Server Steam Dropbox

SleepTiming & Wake up refreshed! The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives | WHDb The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives Update January 22, 2013: This article was originally posted February 7, 2008. Since then, it has been one of our most popular articles here at WHdb.com. In light of this, we have decided to give this article an update for 2013: we cleaned out some obsolete links and added a New for 2013 section. Not every proprietary program can drive a person crazy, right? The following fifty sixty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. Jump to: Operating Systems & Web Browsers | Office Suites | Office Tools | Productivity | Graphic Programs | Web Editors | Desktop Publishing | Communications | Media | Utilities | Security | Financial | New for 2013 Operating Systems & Web Browsers Windows 10 to Ubuntu: This is Microsoft’s operating system (OS), and even Microsoft fans have become disillusioned with this product. Office Suites Media

Free All-in-One Graphic Design Starter Kit Graphic design has an amazing community. Comprised of both the vets from the pre-computer era to the newbies who were raised on the internet and computer-editing applications, there is a huge gamut of people sharing their work and expertise online. I know when I was starting out in design, I found tons of inspiration and information from sites like JustCreativeDesign, DesignNewz, and more. If there’s one issue, however, it’s that there’s almost too much great information out there. I know – good problem to have, right? But for those designers just starting out, or for those designers who are considering getting into design, the amount of information can be a little overwhelming. This “kit” was originally intended to be a zipped file containing all of the links below; however, it clocked in at about half a gigabyte, which I thought most people wouldn’t want to sit and download (plus it would put a strain on our hosting). Software GIMP (Snow Leopard) (Leopard) (Windows) EBooks Textures Fonts

The 50 Best Registry Hacks that Make Windows Better We’re big fans of hacking the Windows Registry around here, and we’ve got one of the biggest collections of registry hacks you’ll find. Don’t believe us? Here’s a list of the top 50 registry hacks that we’ve covered. It’s important to note that you should never hack the registry if you don’t know what you’re doing, because your computer will light on fire and some squirrels may be injured. Also, you should create a System Restore point before doing so. Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer We’ve all been at our computer when the Windows Update dialog pops up and tells us to reboot our computer. There’s a couple of ways that we can disable this behavior, however. Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer How to Clean Up Your Messy Windows Context Menu One of the most irritating things about Windows is the context menu clutter that you have to deal with once you install a bunch of applications. How to Clean Up Your Messy Windows Context Menu

Guía de Edición de Video con VirtualDub Actualizado 02/01/2013Inicio » Guías » Edición de Video con VirtualDub Guía básica de supervivencia con el programa VirtualDub para editar, ajustar y convertir video AVI, DivX y XviD. Referencia de los Controles de VirtualDub Asegúrate de familiarizarte con los controles de VirtualDub para manejar este programa mas fácilmente. Control de reproducción, utilizado para reproducir y detener el video original o el video ya procesado. Inicio / Fin, mueve el marcador de posición hacia el principio o el final del video. Retroceso / Avance, usado para retroceder o avanzar un cuadro en el video Previo / Siguiente keyframe, salta al previo o siguiente keyframe (keyframe= cuadro de sincronismo audio/video) Escena previa / Siguiente, usado para retroceder o avanzar al siguiente cambio de escena mas próximo. Inicio / Fin de Selección, usado para marcar el inicio y el final de una selección del video. Posición actual, indica la posición actual del marcador en el video Tips a Tener en cuenta 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows About Note: This guide was written in early 2009. Some parts of it may be out of date. Good luck! This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. Although this guide is targeted for use on Windows, the git gui tool works the same on all platforms. Downloading PuTTY Although you can use the SSH program that comes with git, I prefer to use the PuTTY Agent to keep track of my SSH keys. Later in this guide, we will use these programs for securely pushing our changes to a remote server. Installing Git First, download msysgit. Because we will be using PuTTY as our SSH client, choose Use PLink and fill in the path to the downloaded plink.exe executable. Continue clicking Next until the installation is complete. Creating a Repository To create a repository, first create the folder you want the project to live under. Choosing Create New Repository brings us to the next dialog. Fill in the path to your new directory and click Create. Committing Branching Merging

18 Best Video Editing Software For Free Download (Windows) Video editing sometimes become very money consuming due to need of expensive video editing softwares, large disk space and computer with high performance graphics. That’s the reason, some time before, we listed ” 10 Best And Free Online Video Editing Software” that allows you to work within the browser to cut and edit videos without having too much knowledge of video editing. But what when you don’t have any access to the internet or your internet connection is slow which doesn’t allow you to open these free online editing services? In this situation, many video editing software comes in rescue that are available to you for free download. Yes, there are lots of free video editing softwares that are available on the internet but all of them are not good to use. So, have a look on WebSeasoning’s compilation of Free Video Editing Software – 19 Best Video Editors for Windows. 1) LightWorks : Its a power packed video editing tool, which has all the capabilities of making a real movie.

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