8 Little Known, Insanely Useful Software For College « Killer Tech Tips If you’re in college, check out these eight lesser known, but still indispensable software applications for your computer. We bet these will be as useful as Dropbox and Evernote! Photo by Samantha Decker. 1. Connectify lets you share your laptop’s internet connection with others nearby. The app shows up in the system tray once you install it. 2. Panda USB Vaccine completely disables autorun on your computer. In addition to disabling autorun, the tool can also create a dummy autorun.inf file on removable drives, thereby “vaccinating†them from getting infected. 3. WordWeb is free and does one thing really, really well. WordWeb works when you’re offline and it could obviously help you improve your vocabulary. 4. If you frequently come back to your dorm room just to take back that pen drive you missed, Pen Drive Reminder is a must-have. There’s also a countdown timer that pops open a notification after the counter reaches zero seconds. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Literature Project - Free eBooks Online Faking Powerful Body Language Reduces Stress And Makes You More Confident Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. You can learn a lot from the body language of others but its usefulness doesn’t end there. As social psychologist Amy Cuddy points out, the body language you choose to use can influence your own behaviour. People with powerful body language — movements that tend to be more open and spread out, that take up more space — also feel confidence. Although we’ve known for a while that displaying dominance through body language contributed to a more powerful appearance, Cuddy found that lower levels of stress were also a major contributory factor. The results of the study suggest that you want to sprawl out in stressful situations to feel more powerful, but kicking your feet up during, say, a job interview definitely sends the wrong signal. Some people may take issue with the idea of “fake it ’til you make it” because they don’t want to always feel like a fraud, but Cuddy explains that it’s more of a process of faking it until you become it.
Physics Flash Animations We have been increasingly using Flash animations for illustrating Physics content. This page provides access to those animations which may be of general interest. The animations will appear in a separate window. The animations are sorted by category, and the file size of each animation is included in the listing. In addition, I have prepared a small tutorial in using Flash to do Physics animations. LInks to versions of these animations in other languages, other links, and license information appear towards the bottom of this page. The Animations There are 99 animations listed below. Other Languages and Links These animations have been translated into Catalan, Spanish and Basque: En aquest enllaç podeu trobar la versió al català de les animacions Flash de Física. Many animations have been translated into Greek by Vangelis Koltsakis. Most animations have been translated into Hungarian by Sandor Nagy, Eötvös Loránd University.
Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia Why You Hate Exercise (And What You Can Do About It) When your body is in pain trying to adjust to a new exercise routine, it’s hard to really enjoy the process. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at what it is that makes us hate exercise and what we can do about it. Picture: normanack/Flickr Like many things, exercise is all about perspective. From couch potatoes to Olympic athletes, everyone has a physical capacity for exertion, beyond which the body becomes stressed and begins to feel bad. The stress comes when you reach your “ventilatory threshold”. It’s not just your body’s ventilatory threshold though. How people interpret some of the physical sensations of exertion or fatigue, such as buildup of lactic acid in muscle or increases in body temperature, can also influence whether they stick with an exercise routine. Essentially, when you feel terrible, you’re less likely to stick with your new routine. Finding the routine that works for you is also about accepting where you are physically. Hard-Wired to Hate Exercise?
Downloadable Computer Repair CDs One of our Technibble forum members, PcTek9, and a handful of other Technibble members have compiled a large list of CDs for various computer repair tasks. In this list, the following types of CD are available for download: Antivirus Boot CDs, Recovery Disks, Hardware Diagnostic Boot CDs, Network Testing/Monitoring, Data Recovery Boot CDs and Special Purpose CDs. Some of these are free to download, some are not. Be sure to read the EULA for the CD’s you download and the applications you use to make sure you are allowed to use them in the manner you plan to use them in. Many of the CDs contain a variety of different programs and some of the applications are free to use as you please, but some of them disallow commercial use. Also, some of these CD’s may set off an antivirus false positive due to their virus removal, password cracking, system file changing nature. Some CDs have been purposely left out of this list as they contain illegal software. Creating Multiboot CDs
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